What should we tell children about climate change? - comment by Leo Hickman
22/5/2009 Guardian G2 ’Why don’t we stop hurting the planet?’ asked a child. Read the rest of this entry »
“Nature Doesn’t Do Bailouts!” - Viewpoint by Andrew Simms
7/4/2009 BBC While most governments’ eyes are on the banking crisis, a much bigger issue -
the environmental crisis - is passing them by… Read the rest of this entry »
“The public has been swindled” - former chair of IPCC
21/7/2008 Guardian Ofcom’s censure of Channel 4 is flawed: Read the rest of this entry »
1.2 What do we have to do and can we succeed?
What do we have to do? Read the rest of this entry »
100months -the BBC Viewpoint version from N.E.F.
21/7/2008 We have just 100 months to act to prevent dangerous climate change, says Andrew
Simms. Read the rest of this entry »
2nd Citizen’s Agora of European Parliament - Report
16/6/2008 CITIZENS’ AGORA, European Parliament, Brussels Report by Mike Robinson, Chair of Stop Climate Chaos Scotland Read the rest of this entry »
Alarm expressed by top gov expert on biofuels
25/3/2008 Guardian Using plant-based materials for fuel in cars and trucks was until recently heralded as the answer to the need to reduce carbon emissions Read the rest of this entry »
An Open letter to Professor Lisa Jardine about The Great Global Warming Swindle
4/8/2008 An Open Letter e-mailed to Professor Lisa Jardine who is Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London and has many other eminent qualifications, public roles, and Honours. Read the rest of this entry »
Are most people unwilling to change our lifestyles?
Surveys seem to show growing public support for action on climate change but most people seem unwilling to change their own lifestyles. Does the focus of campaigning need to change? Read the rest of this entry »
Biochar information from Eric J Knight
6/12/2008 E-mail from Eric J Knight. Biochar, the modern version of an ancient Amazonian agricultural practice called Terra Preta (black earth), is gaining widespread credibility Read the rest of this entry »
Bonbiot’s critique of UK gov.’s record on climate change/carbon trading
24/7/2008 Guardian Don’t be fooled by the climate change bill. Carbon trading torpedoes it. Read the rest of this entry »
Bush appointees distorted research findings on global warming
4/6/2008 Guardian Political appointees placed by the Bush administration into senior positions within Nasa’s media headquarters acted to play down and distort accounts given to the public of the research findings of its scientists on global warming, an official investigation has concluded. Read the rest of this entry »
Cap and Fade by James Hansen -New York Times
6/12/2009 New York Times Cap and Fade by James Hansen. Read the rest of this entry »
Carbon capture technology - £1bn per large coal plant
18/4/2009 Guardian Carbon capture is technology that captures the carbon emissions of heavily polluting plants,
such as power stations, and stores them underground. Read the rest of this entry »
Carbon trading won’t stop climate change by Andrew Simms
15/4/2009 New Scientist Carbon trading won’t stop climate change by Andrew Simm Read the rest of this entry »
Ch.4 film ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle broke Ofcom rules.
21/7/2008 BBC Channel 4 film on global warming broke Ofcom rules, the media regulator says. Read the rest of this entry »
Changing Public Opinion -extract from Nicholas Stern’s 2009 book
4/4/2009 Extract from ‘A BLUEPRINT FOR A SAFER PLANET’ by Nicholas Stern, 2009 Read the rest of this entry »
China’s rapid investment in renewables - £6bn in 2007 2nd only to Germany.
1/8/2008 BBC China’s rapid investment in low carbon technologies has catapulted the nation up
the global renewable energy rankings, a report shows. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change & nuclear power risks- Comment by Ulrich beck
17/7/2008 Guardian All aboard the nuclear power superjet. Just don’t ask about the landing
strip. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate Change deniers conference - how to answer them.
9/3/2009 Guardian It is billed as the largest ever gathering of climate change deniers, a convention that kicked off last night with a title suggesting global warming is a thing of the past, Read the rest of this entry »
CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS EDITED DOWN
7/4/2008 Guardian Front page lead (bought in Edinburgh) was edited down on the Guardian website. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change report like a disaster novel, says Australian minister
8/7/2008 Guardian Scientists predict 10-fold increase in heatwaves Read the rest of this entry »
Climate chaos is inevitable. We can only avert oblivion - M.Lynas
12/6/2008 Guardian Comment. At best we will limit the extent of global warming, but Kyoto barely helps. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate is more urgent than the economy but .. - voters’ poll.
2/7/2008 Guardian Voters think that taking action against climate change matters more than tackling the global economic downturn Read the rest of this entry »
Critique of ‘cap and trade’ by Jim Hansen
6/5/2009 Extract from e-mailed letter to the Australian government. Read the rest of this entry »
Critique of eco-towns - Independent
1/7/2008 Independent What are eco-towns, and how green are they in reality? Read the rest of this entry »
Critique of G8 agreement by Richard Black
8/7/2008 BBC At first sight, the G8 agreement on climate change promises much. Read the rest of this entry »
Does carbon trading/offset work?
Carbon trading, offsetting, carbon ‘neutral’ - most people will have heard of cheating or unworkable schemes but are there any projects of this kind which really produce a substantial net reduction of greenhouse gas emissions? Read the rest of this entry »
Does climate change cloud the other environmental issues? - Comment
3/7/2009 BBC Does climate cloud the bigger picture? Comment by Richard Black Read the rest of this entry »
Dreadful warning by 1,500 senior scientists but not newsworthy.
In 1992, a remarkable document called World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity was signed by more than 1,500 senior scientists, including more than half of all Nobel prizewinners alive at that time. It was rejected as not newsworthy. Read the rest of this entry »
Earth may hide a lethal carbon cache - scientists warn
24/5/2008 New Scientist Fred Pearce Earth may hide a lethal carbon cache. Read the rest of this entry »
EU spokesman on energy -questionable definition of biofuel
28/3/2008 Guardian Article by EU energy spokesman uses questionable definition of biofuel sustainability. Read the rest of this entry »
Final Countdown. 100 months to avoid disaster. NOT BIG NEWS
2/8/2008 Guardian Final Countdown. 100 months to avoid disaster. BUT IS IT BIG NEWS?? Read the rest of this entry »
Geo-4 State of the Planet
GEO-4 State of the Planet report: A TALE OF DECLINE (see Bypassing nations in News List) Read the rest of this entry »
Global warming is a brutal truth. Channel 4 unrepentent.
21/7/2008 Guardian Channel 4′s dismissal of Ofcom’s damning verdict
about its flawed programme is the usual professional self-deception. Read the rest of this entry »
Guardian comment needs a completent rebuttal.
2/6/2008 Guardian Comment by David Cox - Remember that global warming thingy? Read the rest of this entry »
Guardian leader on climate change and carbon capture
2/6/2008 Guardian Climate change: A captivating remedy (Leader, Guardian)
A crude division can be made between two sets of people who both
want to fight climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
Hansen’s Q’s & A’s and what can be done.
Questions and Answers (incomplete) Read the rest of this entry »
Hansen’s summary of his 2008 publication.
This is Hansen’s summary (1 page) with conclusions followed by his Questions and Answers (2 pages). Read the rest of this entry »
How climate change sceptic Ian Plimer dodges valid criticism by James Randerson
14/12/2009 Guardian How climate change sceptic Ian Plimer dodges valid criticism. Read the rest of this entry »
How much sea rise will climate change cause?
6/5/2009 New Scientist - Gaia Vince Read the rest of this entry »
Key discussions April 2008
KEY DISCUSSIONS1) James Hanson’s research shows that the 550ppm target used by most experts and governments is set far higher than they should be - and we are failing to keep within the 550ppm anyway. Read the rest of this entry »
Major article: Rapid Arctic meltdown could be catastrophe for us all. by Fred Pearce
28/3/2009 New Scientist Climate crunch warning from Fred Pearce Read the rest of this entry »
Make fuel waste an offence - Director WWF Scotland - Helpful??
14/4/2009 Scotsman Dr Richard Dixon, director of WWF Scotland, believes tough measures are needed to force people to cut their use of fossil fuels…. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Lynas on climate deniers.
3/7/2008 New Statesman Mark Lynas on climate deniers. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Lynas: The climate change clock is ticking
1/8/2008 Guardian The exact timescale of global warming is unknown, but the 100 months campaign provides a much-needed sense of urgency. Mark Lynas. Read the rest of this entry »
Media interest in whether North Pole is ice-free this summer
Go to http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=576
to real short analysis by www.realclimate.org with webcams watching at the North Pole, graph of past records etc.
Miliband - 80% promises but 0% action to cut airline emissions.
14/7/2009 Guardian Mass air travel will be preserved even in a low-carbon Britain because the government will find deeper emissions cuts in other areas, the climate change secretary Ed Miliband said today. Read the rest of this entry »
Monbiot comments on Jim Hansen’s testimony
23/6/2008 Guardian Monbiot comments on Jim Hansen’s testimony. Read the rest of this entry »
Monbiot’s 10 deniers exposed (portraits deleted).
9/3/2009 Guardian With the Heartland Institute’s annual jamboree for climate deniers in full swing … Read the rest of this entry »
New Economic Foundation Report - A Green New Deal
23/7/2008 New Economic Foundation Report A Green New Deal. Read the rest of this entry »
Nice UK climate predictions? The really bad news is missing.
19/6/2009 Editorial Comment The really bad news about the UK climate predictions is Read the rest of this entry »
Ofcom’s verdict on ‘Great Global Warming Swindle’ angers scientists.
22/7/2008 Guardian Ofcom Regulator accused of letting makers off the hook. Read the rest of this entry »
On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction.
11/8/2008 Guardian There’s no ‘adaptation’ to such steep warming. We must stop pandering to special interests, and try a new, post-Kyoto strategy. Read the rest of this entry »
Our craving for deception about climate change - Monbiot
22/7/2008 Guardian The well-off are all too eager to hear the kind of climate change denial aired by Channel 4 Read the rest of this entry »
Over 25% of flowers on the planet face extinction – threat to our ecosystems.
7/7/2010 Guardian More than one-in-four of all flowering plants are under threat of extinction Read the rest of this entry »
Prepare for global temperature rise of 4C, warns top scientist - DEFRA
7/8/2008 Guardian Defra’s chief adviser says we need strategy to adapt to potential
catastrophic increase Read the rest of this entry »
Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientist
23/6/2008 Guardian James Hansen in Testimony to US Congress will also criticise lobbyists. Read the rest of this entry »
Quotes from the BBC show wrong ideas about climate ch.
Comments on the BBC which went unchallenged show how easily misguided impressions about climate change are spread through the media. Read the rest of this entry »
SCCS input to Citizen’s Agora, EU Parliament
1/7/2008 CITIZENS’ AGORA, European Parliament, Brussels, June 2008 input by Mike Robinson. Read the rest of this entry »
Should newspapers stop adverts for high carbon emitting products?
5/6/2009 Guardian Comment by George Monbiot. Newspapers hot off the press, but should they refine their advertising in line with low-carbon companies? Read the rest of this entry »
SIX POINT SUMMARY for the Climate Scientists Copenhagen Conference
12/3/2009 Guardian SUMMARY of the Climate Scientists’ Conference in Copenhagen Read the rest of this entry »
The flaws in the electric car scheme - George Monbiot
16/4/2009 Guardian A government subsidy for electric cars is a start, but it is not the best way to decarbonise our transport system. Read the rest of this entry »
The human brain is made for environmental complacency - Chris Goodall
20/5/2009 Guardian Comment Most governments in the developed world were elected on platforms that promised aggressive policies on greenhouse gas emissions. Read the rest of this entry »
The rich can relax. We just need the poor world to cut emissions. By 125% - Goerge Monbiot
14/7/2009 Guardian The rich can relax. We just need the poor world to cut emissions. By 125%. Comment by George Monbiot. Read the rest of this entry »
The world’s will to tackle climate change is irresistible - IPCC Chair
30/6/2008 Guardian Far from stymying the environmental cause, the downturn in the
world’s economies highlights just how pressing it is. Read the rest of this entry »
Two tonnes off? How to cut CO2 by Tom Strathdee
Article on cutting CO2 emissions February 2008, by Tom Strathdee Read the rest of this entry »
UK greenhouse gases 13% UP not down - according to 2 Reports
1/8/2008 BBC The UK has been living under a delusion over its claim to be cutting greenhouse
gases, according to two reports that will shake the climate change debate.
Ullapool aims to stop free plastic bags - BUT there is a BIG BUT
10-16/1/2008 Big Issue Good news that Ullapool is trying to save 300,000 plastic bags each year BUT proportionality is important. Read the fatal flaw - Read the rest of this entry »
What should we say and how should we say it?
How do people differ in terms of climate change messages? Which people should we focus on? What messages are appropriate at this time and how should they change as events unfold? What are the most effective ways of offering appropriate messages? Read the rest of this entry »
Why are so few people donating to environmetal campaigns?
24/10/2007 Guardian see News List for this date. Understanding this one is vital. Read the rest of this entry »
Why is Channel4 waging a war against Greens?
22/7/2008 Guardian Why does Channel 4 seem to be waging a war against the greens? Read the rest of this entry »
Will the USA and China cooperate against climate change?
23/5/2009 Editorial comment. Do you think that public opinion is beginning to swing towards action to stop catastophic climate change? Read the rest of this entry »
Will you help to make a time-capsule?
If the problem is that we know we are spoiling the planet for future generations but we are not doing anything adequate about that, perhaps it would help to make this more explicit if we made time-capsules in which we left messages to those future generations. Read the rest of this entry »
World Future Council launch of new world-wide org.
WFC initiative in 2004 - first book published 2007 focuses on the moral case and rejects traditional conomics/market forces logic. Read the rest of this entry »