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Methane Leaks Alarm Scientists
Andy Rowell
Dec14
In the fallout from the Durban conference, one of the debates I have heard is people debating what keeping warming to 2 degrees means, rather than letting warming increase to 3 degrees or even 4 degrees. One of the answers was that if warming goes above 2 degrees the chances of a runaway greenhouse effect…
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Don’t Look Away Now
Andy Rowell
Nov21
Love it or loath it as the voice of business, you can say one thing about the Financial Times, it normally covers the energy beat with a reasonable degree of accuracy. That’s why is was so disappointing to read the latest misguided comment piece by the paper’s Washington columnist Edward Luce, in an article “Look…
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Well, something’s going on…
Andy Rowell
Jun14
From the southern states of the US to Northern Europe the words on many people’s lips is: Drought. In Texas the worst drought in more than a century is beginning to cripple the state. Ironically it is also threatening Texas’ fracking boom as there just isn’t enough water to go round. In Texas, it is…
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We Can Win the Fight to Eliminate Dirty Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Traci Romine
Feb10
We are in this fight to win it for ourselves, our pocket books, our planet, and our kids and grand kids. And this is a fight. Despite the trillion in profits big oil and gas companies are making on the backs of American consumers, they came out swinging against President Obama’s second call in his…
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CO2 emissions to rise by 25% in 20 years, says Big Oil
Andy Rowell
Jan20
We are on the path to climate chaos, Big Oil has admitted. Both BP and Exxon have conceded that progress on climate change is totally insufficient to stabilize CO2 emissions. Both oil companies have just published their Energy Outlooks, and the outlook looks grim. In a bleak prognosis for success on reducing carbon dioxide emissions,…
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“Yet another red flag being raised”
Andy Rowell
Dec07
The latest from the Groundhog Summit. As the politicians pontificate, the science gets more scary. Today UNEP – the United Nations Environment Programme – will release the results of its latest research into the effects of climate change on glaciers from around the world. As UNEP says: “There is increasing concern about the effects of…
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Cancun: A Groundhog Summit
Andy Rowell
Dec03
So 2010 will almost certainly rank as one of the three warmest years since temperature records began in 1850, according to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). The final ranking for 2010 will not become clear until November and December data are available in early 2011, but November global temperatures are similar to those observed in…
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“There is little to no chance of less than 2C rise”
Andy Rowell
Nov29
A year ago at the Copenhagen conference, the talk was all about deals and final agreements that would put the world on the road to a low carbon future. This year, at Cancun, the expectations are so low that just keeping the show on the road is the main priority. At best the hope is…
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“We see ice-sheets changing overnight”
Andy Rowell
Nov22
Just over a year ago, the Climategate scandal rocked climate science to its core. The scandal damaged the Copenhagen climate talks and has been fodder for the sceptics ever since. A year on, and the scientist at the centre of the row, Professor Phil Jones, argues that it will take a long time to convince…
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When Ignorance Costs More than Bliss
Andy Rowell
Nov04
Since the election on Tuesday, the chasm between what action is needed on the ground and what our politicians believe just got a whole lot wider. We all know that it is the poorest people from third world countries who are most at risk from climate change. And yet half of the new Republicans –…
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