Climate Change

Energy Bill: too close to call

Posted by Richardg — 4 June 2013 at 2:20pm - Comments
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MPs are deciding whether a clean power target should be included in the Energy Bill. Will they back clean renewable power, or a costly, dirty dash for gas?

Article tagged as: climate change, energy, energy bill, renewables, solar, storify, wind

Balcombe or bullshit?

Posted by Lawrence Carter — 24 May 2013 at 1:54pm - Comments
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“I know that everything I say sounds like utter fucking bullshit,” a top Cuadrilla PR executive told me yesterday when I asked him about the risks fracking poses to the sleepy Sussex village of Balcombe.

Article tagged as: Balcombe, climate change, Cuardilla, fracking, gas

Climate and Euroscepticism: leftwing, rightwing and wrongwing

Posted by Graham Thompson — 10 May 2013 at 5:35pm - Comments
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Lord Lawson, chairman of the sceptic tank GWPF

Lean, mean budgeting machine Lord Nigel Lawson is back in the news, still resolutely sceptical but, for a change, not about climate science. He’s returned to his old stamping ground, the European Union, and is now being resolutely sceptical about that. These two positions, climate scepticism and euroscepticism, are complementary.

Article tagged as: climate change, climate sceptics, eurosceptics, james delingpole, nigel lawson, politics

This is what an unstoppable movement looks like

Posted by Rachael King — 25 April 2013 at 4:42pm - Comments

Last Saturday, more than 10,000 of us in more than 280 cities came together in a declaration of love for the Arctic. Thousands of volunteers, all around the world, speaking with one voice to send a clear message to politicians: the Arctic belongs to everyone.

Before I got involved in my local Greenpeace group, I remember thinking, am I the only person who cares about this? Today, I know that I'm part of an unstoppable movement to protect the planet from greed.

Article tagged as: arctic, climate change, I love Arctic, Save the Arctic

24 hours to get cleaner cars

Posted by Hugh Mouser — 23 April 2013 at 6:17pm - Comments

Who'd have thought it? Just days before MEPs vote on what future cars should look like, UK oil companies, together with the RAC, have just come forward and said we're asking for the right amount of car fuel efficiency.

Article tagged as: cars, climate change, emissions, EU

Not-quite-instant karma's gonna get you

Posted by Graham Thompson — 23 April 2013 at 12:21pm - Comments
George Osborne slightly overwhelmed
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Osborne feeling slightly overwhelmed

This week, the Office of National Statistics will tell us if Britain has slipped into a triple dip recession, and if the news is grim we may be treated to the sight of George Osborne – the most stridently anti-environment chancellor for a generation – blaming it all on climate change.

Article tagged as: budget, climate, climate change, george osborne, low carbon

Born Wrongborg

Posted by Graham Thompson — 15 April 2013 at 4:59pm - Comments
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Cross my palm with silver...

Bjorn Lomborg, the man who used to be the world’s most well-known climate sceptic, has resurfaced in the Wall Street Journal and Channel 4 with a new way to be wrong on climate change.

Article tagged as: climate change, climate skeptics, lomborg
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