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UK Government Forestry Sale Meets Opposition

January 3, 2011 by Vicky Portwain
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With areas of UK forestry mooted suitable for commercial development – the coaltion government has spotted a opportunity to sell off this publically owned asset for a quick buck. Many forests owned by the Forestry Commission are potentially suitable for tourism, leisure and renewable energy projects such as wind farms, as well as... [read more]

Science and Human Value

November 6, 2010 by Jonathan Smith
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Writing for the Guardian, Donald Brown notes that how to respond to climate change is “an ethical issue, not only a scientific matter, because the consequences of delay could be so severe and the poorest people in the world as some of the most vulnerable.” Imagine a handsome, smiling, well-dressed person saying to you, “I don’t care if I... [read more]

Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Underwater robots trying to seal well

April 27, 2010 by Big Gav
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The Guardian has a look at BP's disaster drilling in the Gulf Of Mexico, with the rig sunk, 11 people dead and the well leaking oil into the waters and looking rather difficult to stop anytime soon - Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Underwater robots trying to seal well. More at the Wall Street Journal and Houston Chronicle. Underwater... [read more]

Labour & Lib Dems Put Spotlight on Conservative Climate Sceptics

April 25, 2010 by Vicky Portwain
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Labour and Liberal Democrat energy representatives Ed Miliband and Simon Hughes joined forces to put Tory climate change sceptics in the spotlight this week. The ‘green hustings’ event organised by the Guardian featured a debate on climate change and energy between the 3 biggest political parties. The debate can be heard online via... [read more]

Lovelock: Authoritarian System Needed to Deal with Global Warming

March 31, 2010 by Big Gav
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Cryptogon points to a Guardian article quoting James Lovelock saying that we may need to suspend democracy in order to deal with global warming - Lovelock: Authoritarian System Needed to Deal with Global Warming. Of course, given that he thinks humanity is doomed to collapse to a few remnant breeding pairs in the arctic, it would seem... [read more]

Oxburgh: CCS or death

March 23, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
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Now here’s something you don’t see everyday–the head of an oil company sounding the alarm over climate change. Oil chief: my fears for planet: The head of one of the world’s biggest oil companies has admitted that the threat of climate change makes him “really very worried for the planet”. In an interview in today’s Guardian Life... [read more]

Monbiot: There is no simple way to battle public hostility to climate research. As the psychologists show, facts barely sway us anyway

March 18, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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There is one question that no one who denies manmade climate change wants to answer: what would it take to persuade you? In most cases the answer seems to be nothing. No level of evidence can shake the growing belief that climate science is a giant conspiracy codded up by boffins and governments to tax and control us. That’s UK... [read more]

Communicating Climate Change: It’s Okay to Ignore the Crap

March 1, 2010 by Tim Hurst
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Climate-related journalism has started to look a lot like this recently. Don’t let the juicy get in the way of the important. Our “Communicating Climate Change” series will examine the challenges involved with writing on climate issues. It will often feature interviews with communicators, like Joe Romm, Kate Sheppard and Andy Revkin.... [read more]

Will Coral Reefs Disappear? Results from AAAS Symposium

February 23, 2010 by Simon Donner
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The Guardian has a short summary of some of the presentations in our Sunday symposium at AAAS organized by Joan Kleypas. The headline "World's coral reefs could disintegrate by 2100" comes out of field and modeling work presented by Jacob Silverman about the balance of calcium carbonate production through coral calcification of corals... [read more]

The top 50 green books

January 27, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
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Everyone loves “best of” and “worst of” lists, including, some would say especially, those who claim not to like them. The Guardian has published a short article with a list of the top 50 books on sustainability, and it’s a pretty solid list. What are your top green books?: “What’s your favourite ‘green’ book?” I get asked this... [read more]

UK new nuclear build will not get government subsidies

January 22, 2010 by Dan Yurman
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Taxpayers off the hook for cost of new plants (NucNet) The British government will not use taxpayers’ money to subsidize  the construction of new nuclear power plants, Philip Hunt, (right) minister of state at the Department of Energy and Climate Change said Jan 21. In an online question and answer session with ‘The Guardian’... [read more]

Who wrecked Copenhagen: China or economists?

January 12, 2010 by John Whitehead
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Guest post from Jim Roumasset: A popular guardian.co.uk report is making the rounds, even among economists, to the effect that China wrecked the prospective Copenhagen deal. I think the famous Pogo cartoon is more on the mark -- "We have met the enemy and he is us!"  We economists have yet to come up with a win-win proposal based... [read more]

The battle rages on

January 5, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
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Rajendra Pachauri, who chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has an excellent piece in The Guardian, Climate change has no time for delay or denial: It is a well-known fact that powerful vested interests and those opposed to action on climate change are working overtime to see that they can stall action for as... [read more]

Sun, wind and wave-powered: Europe unites to build renewable energy 'supergrid'

January 4, 2010 by Big Gav
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The Guardian reports that north sea countries are planning a "vast clean energy project" - Sun, wind and wave-powered: Europe unites to build renewable energy 'supergrid'. It would connect turbines off the wind-lashed north coast of Scotland with Germany's vast arrays of solar panels, and join the power of waves crashing on to the... [read more]

Copenhagen has given us the chance to face climate change with honesty

January 2, 2010 by Big Gav
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James Hansen has an article in The Guardian welcoming the demise of the Copenhagen conference - Copenhagen has given us the chance to face climate change with honesty. Points awarded to anyone who knew what "fugacious" meant before reading this... Last weekend's minimalist Copenhagen global climate accord provides a great opportunity.... [read more]