Blog: Climate

Deep Green: overshoot and tech dreams

Posted by jossc — 12 June 2009 at 11:29am - Comments

Here's the latest in the Deep Green column from Rex Weyler - author, journalist, ecologist and long-time Greenpeace trouble-maker. The opinions here are his own.

Global warming is a symptom of human overshoot: the consumption and waste that exceeds the biophysical capacity of the Earth. If we attempt to reduce the fever, but ignore the disease, we will, at best, extend the suffering.

Article tagged as: climate change, deep green, ecology, geoengineering, overconsumption, rex weyler

YANC wins open cast campaign

Posted by jossc — 10 June 2009 at 12:22pm - Comments

Some of the YANC team outside Leeds Town Hall before the planning meeting

Good news in from Leeds last week, where a group of energised anti-coal campaigners with the marvellous acronym YANC (Yorkshire Against New Coal) pulled off a fairly stunning coup by persuading the local council to turn down plans for a climate-wrecking open cast coal mine.

Article tagged as: climate change, co2 emissions, coal, open-cast, YANC, yorkshire

Shell coughs up to keep human rights trial out of court

Posted by jamie — 9 June 2009 at 2:46pm - Comments

Shell has ducked out of the major international trial it faced over human rights abuses in Nigeria, and last night opened its wallet to fork out $15.5m (£9.6m) in a last minute settlement. After 13 years of bringing this case to court, it's a relief for the relatives of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others executed for campaigning against Shell's human rights abuse and environmental crimes in the Niger Delta.

Article tagged as: africa, human rights, ken saro-wiwa, nigeria, oil, shell

Deaths and displacement due to climate change set to grow

Posted by jossc — 5 June 2009 at 3:29pm - Comments

A typhoon wrecks the Philippines coastline in 2008
A typhoon wrecks the Philippines coastline in 2008

News in this week from the first comprehensive study into the impacts of global warming on human society - and it makes uneasy reading.

The headline figures are: 300,000 deaths and 300 million people affected every year, at a cost to the global economy of £125 billion. The report was issued by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan's thinktank, the Global Humanitarian Forum.

Article tagged as: climate change, global warming, kofi annan

Greenpeace podcast: 'A Time Comes'

Posted by jossc — 29 May 2009 at 11:46am - Comments

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In this edition of our podcast we talk to award-winning film maker Nick Broomfield about his latest project. 'A Time Comes' is an 18 minute documentary about our very own Kingsnorth Six, who were arrested for shutting down a coal-fired power station but found 'not guilty' at the subsequent trial.

But first let's head down to the Airplot to meet veteran comedian and star of fabled 1970s tv series 'The Good Life', Richard Briers. Richard turned up at our plot of land on the site of the proposed new runway at Heathrow to help us dig for victory in the campaign by starting an allotment – Christian Hunt grabbed a spade and went along to meet him.

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Article tagged as: airplot, audio, climate change, coal, heathrow, kingsnorth six, nick broomfield, podcasts

Help save the climate: come to the Mili-band

Posted by jossc — 28 May 2009 at 2:27pm - Comments

We've made some progress on the coal campaign lately, with Climate and Energy Minister Ed Miliband finally ruling out any new coal-fired power stations that don't capture a proportion of the carbon they emit. But that's not nearly enough to save the climate.

Article tagged as: CCS, climate change, coal, ed miliband, events, kingsnorth

Cool IT leaders needed to tackle global warming

Posted by jossc — 28 May 2009 at 11:50am - Comments

If saving our climate was a game of poker and all the various stakeholders - our heads of state, the energy industry, environmentalists, etc - were players, there would be one player at the table who hasn't yet shown their cards. The hold-out in this particular game is the Information Technology (IT) Industry, a player who is sitting on a lot of chips in a high stakes game, despite holding a winning hand.

Article tagged as: climate change, co2 emissions, computers, IT, technology
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