Category: climate breakdown

Selling Indulgences

The trade in carbon offsets is an excuse for business as usual.

Global freshwater supplies could start to determine whether or not we can feed ourselves.

Micro generation can’t solve climate change.

When pundits discuss contentious issues on air, they must reveal their financial interests.

Does anyone really want to stop climate change?

That’s what we need in the United Kingdom to avoid catastrophic climate change

It isn’t just Exxon which has funded the climate change deniers – Big Tobacco has also played a strange and disturbing role.

Re-engineering the atmosphere could be as dangerous as climate change

Some of the arguments against nuclear power are no longer valid, but it remains the wrong technology.

Why won’t anyone enforce our building standards?

If we’re to have a hydrogen economy, we have to secure our supplies of natural gas.

Until we stop flying

The trade in “carbon offsets” is based on bogus accounting

Biodiesel enthusiasts have accidentally invented the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth

Are there enough renewables to keep the lights on? The answer will be comforting to no one.

The government’s chief scientist appears to have succumbed to politics

The corporations are demanding regulation, and the government is refusing to give it to them

The G8 leaders refuse to accept that anything difficult needs to be done about climate change

Review of Margaret Thatcher’s 1989 speech to the UN (extract published below).