Yesterday, The Independent newspaper in the UK did something rather amazing – it asked it’s readers for their views. Rather than giving readers the usual dose of opinion from the great and the good, the paper asked for the opinion of its readers. And they asked it on the most pressing issue of all: Climate … Read More
Author: Andy Rowell
Be Worried, Be Very Worried
Polar Ice Caps Are Melting Faster Than Ever… More And More Land Is Being Devastated By Drought… Rising Waters Are Drowning Low-Lying Communities… By Any Measure, Earth Is At … The Tipping Point … The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame. Why the crisis hit so soon–and what we can do about … Read More
US Tax Subsidies to the Oil Industry: Like Paying Fish to Swim
Do you remember George W’s promise to end oil addiction? Part of that process would be beginning to end the vast subsidies given to the oil industry at tax-payers expense.
After Months of Delay ….. Yes Britain Will Miss Crucial CO2 Target
The day before Tony Blair addresses a key scientific conference on climate change in New Zealand, the British government has finally admitted what many long suspected, that – wait for it – it will fail to meet its often repeated manifesto commitment on cutting carbon dioxide emissions.
Blown Away By the Wind
Good news from Britain’s wind energy. It is set to exceed expectations with 50% more wind farms powering British homes and industry by 2010 than predicted four years ago, according to new figures published by the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA).
A Generation to Wean Europe’s Vehicles Off Oil
The European Parliament’s Environment Committee has said that the EU must wean the transport sector off oil entirely within a generation.
Its Time to Pay up Exxon
I remember at the time of the Exxon Valdez spill that one of the Trustees of the Oil Spill Board said something like “Lawyers not yet born will work on this one”.
Pipeline Safety – What One Mother Expects
The BP spill on the North Slope is still reverberating – here is a post to the “safepipelines” discussion group:
One Metre Sea-Level Rise This Century
We are facing at least a metre rise in sea-level by the end of this century, scientists have warned. Half of the Greenland ice cap and vast areas of Antarctica are destined to melt if climate change continues unabated.
The Price of Oil: Seventeen Years On from the Exxon Valdez
Today is the seventeen Anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, the worst spill in America’s history. Over eleven million gallons poured into Prince William Sound polluting the pristine environment and devastating the local wildlife and with it the local salmon fishing industry.