Posts in March 2009
Maldives opts out of pact with the “carbon devil”
Finally one politician has grasped the enormity of the problem facing their nation and us all. Mohamed Nasheed, the new president of the Republic of Maldives has more reason than most to be extremely worried, as his country stands at most 1.5 metres above the sea.
Scientists Warn of Catastrophic Cost of Political Failure
When the world’s leaders finally meet in Copenhagen in December and try and come up with an historic agreement on climate change, they will not be able to use lack of knowledge as an excuse for inaction. In what can only be described as a watershed moment, the 2,500 leading scientists meeting in Copenhagen this…
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Appearances, goes the saying, can be deceptive. One of the tactics the oil industry has used over the years is the use of “front-groups” to promote its cause. Often these names are deliberately designed to confuse people or hide their real intention. So the Global Climate Coalition was not a coalition of NGOs attempting to…
Continue reading ‘Tar Sands Lobby Launches PR Offensive’.I am hearing only bad news…
Does anyone remember the song written by the pop group, Latin Quarter, called “Radio Africa”, written in the mid-eighties whose repeated starting line was “I am hearing only bad news on Radio Africa”? That song came back to my mind reading the reports from the climate conference in Copenhagen. I am hearing only bad news…
Continue reading ‘I am hearing only bad news…’.Its Serious Science Versus the Sceptics
It’s a tale of two conferences in two cities that are both on the science of climate change. One we should take seriously, the other one we should not. One is stacked full of thousands of reputable climate scientists, the other the same old, predominantly right-wing corporate funded climate sceptics with a discredited and out-dated…
Continue reading ‘Its Serious Science Versus the Sceptics’.Hopes of Climate Deal “Already Lost”
It may be nine months before the main event, but leading climate scientists are meeting in Copenhagen to discuss the latest scientific research and developments. The findings will be used to inform the politicians when they meet at the crucial meeting in December. But on the eve of this month’s conference, two leading British climate…
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He is known as the “Prince of Darkness”, the ultimate spin doctor who has been at the heart of the New Labour project. And today Lord Mandelson came face to face with the reality of the British government’s pro-aviation expansion policy – literally. Mandelson was hit in the face with a cup of green slime…
Continue reading ‘The Third Climate Protest of the Week….’.Brown to Congress: “End the Dictatorship of Oil”
I have heard UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown speak on many occasions. Often his tone comes across as a drab mixture of dour-Scotsman and Mr. Scrooge after a bad night out on the wiskey. But in his address yesterday to a joint session of Congress, he seemed electrified and animated. Some are now saying it…
Continue reading ‘Brown to Congress: “End the Dictatorship of Oil”’.Another Day, Another Climate Protest
Nine protesters from the anti-aviation group Plane Stupid will appear in court this morning after causing chaos at one of Europe’s busiest commercial airports, Aberdeen in Scotland yesterday. Due to the protest, the airport was closed between 6.30am and 9am and ten flights were cancelled, much to the annoyance of the authorities and its operator,…
Continue reading ‘Another Day, Another Climate Protest’.“We don’t want the world to boil, no coal, no oil!”
Despite the biting cold weather they came in their thousands, prepared to undertake the largest-ever act of civil disobedience on climate change in the US. They were wrapped up warm, but wore hard hats, boiler suits and face masks, they dressed as dirty chimneys, or were in their “Sunday Best”. There was a real festival…
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