Category: climate breakdown

Cop-Out

The COP21 climate talks in Paris were not the success that governments claim, but a disastrous failure.

Censoring official advice, stripping the hills and rivers, the government ensures that disasters like the Cumbria floods will keep recurring.

There are plenty of real problems with aircraft emissions. But thousands of people are obsessed instead with a fairy tale.

Why is the government so quick to bomb, yet so slow to act on climate change?

In the greatest environmental disaster of the 21st Century (so far), Indonesia has been blotted out by smoke. And the media.

We should stop recycling the old “Yellow Peril” myth. The people most hostile to action on climate change are American and British, not Chinese.

It now looks as if the greatest mass extinction on Earth – 250 million years ago – was caused by fossil fuel burning.

The outrageous, untold story of how big business dumps its costs on us.

Why the UN climate talks have wasted 23 years, and how this can change.

The government has torpedoed its promised community energy revolution – to the benefit of big business.

How our governments’ crashing contradictions destroy their climate policies.

Our visions of the future are defined, like the film Interstellar, by technological optimism and political defeatism

If the ozone hole had been discovered ten years later, governments are likely to have done nothing.

Allan Savory tells us that increasing livestock numbers can reduce desertification and reverse climate change – but where is the scientific evidence?

Buried in the Infrastructure Bill is an astonishing and hitherto-unnoticed contradiction.

When people say we should adapt to climate change, do they have any idea what that means?

How the perverse consequences of a great idea are destroying the natural world.

Ill-informed and incoherent: the head of the National Trust talks nonsense on fracking.

The government is betting the farm on a nuclear technology that might soon look as hip as the traction engine.

How governments bemoan the problem but keep stoking the fires.