Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
China isn't the villain on climate change
It has just been announced that China has become the world’s largest consumer of energy, overtaking the US in absolute hunger for oil, burnt coal, combusted gas and split atoms, if not in consumptio... Read More
Winter cold changed more minds than climate e-mails
Now that the third inquiry into the so-called “Climategate” emails has failed to substantiate the allegations that this was the “scientific scandal of the century”, let’... Read More
Is it all just a load of gas? Government needs to back plans with action
Drunk gassy beer? You may soon be burning beery gas. And it will all be in aid of reducing emissions of, among other pollutants, the same carbon dioxide that gives a pint its head. In a national fir... Read More
Cameron leads at G8 – but the others fail to follow
David Cameron took a strong stand for internationalism at the G8 summit – his first big outing on the international stage – but his fellow leaders failed to meet his challenge to make it more than... Read More
Decisive moment coming in biggest transition since the Industrial Revolution
Mark the date – November 2. It will see the outcome of the most crucial battle yet between the old economy and the new, between the fossil-fuel-powered industrialisation of the last two centuries... Read More
The greenest thing about the budget was knotted around the Chancellor's neck
Well, at least his tie was green. But George Osborne’s neckwear was much the most verdant part of the first budget from Britain’s ‘greenest ever Government’, as the Prime Minis... Read More
Barack Obama turns the oil spill into his poor man's 9/11 to revive Cap-and-Trade climate legislation
"You never let a serious crisis go to waste," Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama’s chief of staff, famously remarked. "And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do b... Read More
Slow progress is being made at little-noticed Copenhagen follow-up
Hardly anyone has noticed, but international climate negotiations have resumed in formal session for the first time since the Copenhagen summit last December. Six months after failing to seal a deal i... Read More
Public consultation on cuts is vapid PR: better to save £205bn by cutting climate change agenda
It is obvious the coalition government is still so divorced from economic reality that it views the deficit cutting operation largely as a public relations exercise. The markets take a more urgent vie... Read More
Fairytale Gore, Edwards marriages end before global warming, poverty
Phew. Not a good day for fairytale Democratic marriages. Today we heard that Al Gore and Tipper, the inspiration for Love Story or was it Kramer vs Kramer?) have bought a one-way ticket to Splitsvil... Read More
