Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
A more radical approach to the crisis of climate change begins not with a long-term vision of an alternate society but with an honest engagement with the very compressed timeframe that current climate science implies.
•The World Bank cuts off funding for coal. How big an impact will that have? •Unprecedented extremes and warmest decade since modern measurements: grim report from World Meteorological Organisation •Recessions make climate change costlier, Hope family research finds •Can Republicans Take the Lead on Climate Change? •Reuters Exposed: Publication Openly Hostile To Climate Coverage, Top Editor Doubts Climate Science •Australian Leader Scraps Tax on Carbon EmissionsSeas may rise 2.3 meters per degree of global warming: report •Old Tactic in New Climate Campaign
The Great Barrier Reef is dying…
Zero Carbon Britain: Rethinking the Future describes a scenario in which the UK has risen to the challenges of the 21st century. It is 2030. We have acknowledged our historical responsibility…
The derailment and explosion of a shale oil train in Canada highlights desperate attempts by refineries along the US/Canada East coast to offset the conventional oil peak of Atlantic basin producers who traditionally supplied them with Brent type crude.
A conversation with two former state chief executives on bridging the partisan divide and adapting to climate change.
I’m sure you all remember the new colour that had to be created by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology for the weather maps when they maxed out above 50oC
•U.S., China agree to cut emissions from vehicles, coal •The Coal Industry Knows That Enviros Are Winning •Carbon’s unburnable truth •In the board room, climate sceptics are nowhere •Climate Change Will Cause More Energy Breakdowns, U.S. Warns •How fossil-fuelled is your university? •Coal’s Over — Anyone For Wine And Cheese?
Naïve or Necessary? How does the economic and ethical case for divestment stack up?
It’s a staple of summer disaster flicks: the scene of a panicked populace trying to get the hell out of Dodge.
The reality about the greenhouse gas emissions cuts needed to avoid dangerous global warming is obscured in UK government scenarios, according to Prof. Kevin Anderson.
If there is any place on planet Earth where we should dig in our heels against expanded coal mining, it is surely Alaska. It’s not happening yet, but there are plenty of people working to make it so.
