Category: climate breakdown

Bonfire of Promises

The government’s new energy bill puts a match to its climate change commitments.

Countering the letter sent to him by four former directors of Friends of the Earth

Christopher Booker’s undisclosed interests illustrate the need for transparency in journalism.

Now it’s a straight fight with the billionaires and corporations.

How weather forecasts became a political issue.

Why is it so easy to save the banks, but so hard to save the biosphere?

The Spectator has allowed me to rebut Nils-Axel Morner’s rubbish about sea levels.

Why bury nuclear waste, when it could meet the world’s energy needs?

It is hard to think of a bigger cock-up than the one the magazine’s editor has just made.

Christopher Booker’s latest cock-ups almost match his all-time record.

Why is the government spending £1.6m on a geo-engineering experiment whose results can never be used?

It looks as if the UK government is allowing shale gas fracking companies to regulate themselves.

To prevent climate breakdown, we need to declare most of the fossil fuels in the earth’s crust off-limits.

The public reaction to new power lines could kill renewable energy: they must be buried.

How will the UK achieve a 50% carbon cut by 2027? By getting someone else to make our stuff.

The British government’s demolition programme is now moving on to the environment.

The level of excess winter deaths in the UK is higher than Siberia’s. This is why.

Yes, the extreme cold in the UK right now really could be a result of global warming.

David Rose appears to have learnt nothing from his catastrophic mistakes before the Iraq war.

Why are we still prospecting for oil when we can’t afford to use existing reserves?