The Chukchi Sea stand-off between environmental and Alaska Native groups and Shell has taken another twist, with a new legal action to stop the oil company’s plans to drill in the region next summer.
Yesterday’s challenge was filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals a group of Native Americans and environmental organisations including the Natural [...]

As a writer what I find interesting is the corruption of the language and the evidence by the sceptics.
Yesterday I posted a blog that was based on Rolling Stone’s list of the people they believe are doing to the most to undermine the international and US domestic effort on climate change.
Obviously the post was sent [...]

For many scientists and politicians a 2 degrees centigrade rise is the threshold which we cannot afford to cross. For example, the IPCC has long argued that climate impacts will significantly increase, if and when, global temperatures rise 2 degrees C or more above pre-industrial levels.
Based on the science, the EU’s stated political objective is [...]

Iceland may be on the verge of a financial collapse but it may soon have another headache to deal with : being on the frontline of the new military and resource conflict of the Arctic.
There is a going to be a rush to exploit the melting Arctic with shipping firms using new routes and oil [...]

Yesterday on the blog I noted that “what was deemed impossible just months ago now seems highly probable or even normal”.
OK, I was talking about the financial chaos and the volatile oil price, but the same could be said of climate change.