Guest post by Jon Small The myth of Climategate can be destroyed with a rudimentary understanding of scientific method Anti global warming conspiracy theorists all over the internet have been having a field day this week with the “climategate” email scandal, the release of thousands of private emails covering a thirteen year period, downloaded by [...]
…hate to say I told you so: Climate change sceptics and fossil fuel companies that have lobbied against action on greenhouse gas emissions have squandered the world’s chance to avoid dangerous global warming, a key adviser to the government has said. Professor Bob Watson, chief scientist at the department for environment and rural affairs, said [...]
I realise that’s not the most cheery of post titles, and I also realise that a lot of what follows won’t be news to most readers of this blog, but given the content of a few news stories this week, I thought it was worth setting out briefly quite how fucked it looks like we’re [...]
I went to a public meeting organised by the Campaign Against Climate Change (CCC) on Saturday. Oh aren’t I so virtuous? What is it about these public meetings about Climate Change that puts people off? It would be easy to blame the doom, the gloom and the knitwear but largely I suspect it’s the fact [...]
Last month, Guardian journalist and tireless eco activist, George Monbiot, was kind enough to give me half an hour of his time to discuss his dire predictions for the world on the eve of Copenhagen. Understandably, one of the greatest barriers to preventing catestrophic global warming that he identified, was China, which Monbiot described as [...]
‘The truth will out’. It’s a simple, very appealing notion – and it’s perhaps one of the most pernicious fallacies in contemporary political discourse. Wherever there are people with wrongheaded ideas, from members of the BNP to climate change deniers, you can bet that sooner or later there’ll be someone (or more likely quite a [...]
I’m a Guardian reader. Middle-class, well educated, long-haired and liberal, I don’t exactly dispel the stereotypes associated with the paper whose readers think they ought to run the country. Nor, as one of those lefty, anti-war, environmentalist types who grew up worrying about the state of the world, should it come as any surprise that [...]
Last month, I wrote a piece for The Times of India on the impact of the over consumption and production of meat on the environment. Recently, I came across this article by farmer Eliot Coleman, arguing that the problem is not meat consumption itself, rather corporate/industrial agriculture and its methods. It is Coleman’s contention that [...]
India must invest in green technology, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said yesterday. Like China, India is a rapidly developing country. With the world’s second largest population, a rising economy and falling poverty, the country’s energy use is set to explode. India, however, cannot afford to follow the Western model of high-carbon industrial growth. Neither India, [...]
This article, which I co-authored with environmental lawyers Ambika Hiranandani and Roland Miller McCall, was first published in The Times of India What do George Bernard Shaw, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Leo Tolstoy, Leonardo Da Vinci, Paul McCartney, and Pythagoras have in common? If your answer is they’re all towering figures of European culture, you’re only [...]
