There are plenty of real problems with aircraft emissions. But thousands of people are obsessed instead with a fairy tale.
Category: climate breakdown
Churchill Syndrome
Why is the government so quick to bomb, yet so slow to act on climate change?
Nothing to See Here
In the greatest environmental disaster of the 21st Century (so far), Indonesia has been blotted out by smoke. And the media.
China Syndrome
We should stop recycling the old “Yellow Peril” myth. The people most hostile to action on climate change are American and British, not Chinese.
A Prehistory of Violence
It now looks as if the greatest mass extinction on Earth – 250 million years ago – was caused by fossil fuel burning.
A Hole in the System
The outrageous, untold story of how big business dumps its costs on us.
Applauding Themselves to Death
Why the UN climate talks have wasted 23 years, and how this can change.
A State Licence to Rob the Public
The government has torpedoed its promised community energy revolution – to the benefit of big business.
Produce More, Consume Less
How our governments’ crashing contradictions destroy their climate policies.
Better Dead Than Different
Our visions of the future are defined, like the film Interstellar, by technological optimism and political defeatism
Political Straightjacket
If the ozone hole had been discovered ten years later, governments are likely to have done nothing.
Eat Meat and Save the World?
Allan Savory tells us that increasing livestock numbers can reduce desertification and reverse climate change – but where is the scientific evidence?
A Legal Duty to Maximise Greenhouse Gases
Buried in the Infrastructure Bill is an astonishing and hitherto-unnoticed contradiction.
Loss Adjustment
When people say we should adapt to climate change, do they have any idea what that means?
The Biogas Disaster
How the perverse consequences of a great idea are destroying the natural world.
Breach of Trust
Ill-informed and incoherent: the head of the National Trust talks nonsense on fracking.
Fiscal Meltdown
The government is betting the farm on a nuclear technology that might soon look as hip as the traction engine.
Climate Breakdown
How governments bemoan the problem but keep stoking the fires.
Parliament of Fools
The US disease has arrived in Britain: representatives waging an all-out war against science.
Abbottalypse Now
Tony Abbott intends to trash Australia on behalf of the super-rich.