The Year the Dam of Denial Breaks on Climate Change
It will be messy, confusing and endlessly debated but with historical hindsight, 2015 will be the year the world turned.
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Do Warmer Winters Mean Less Fruit?
Californians have been enjoying summer weather in the dead of winter, but the downside is that unseasonably warm temperatures could threaten many of our favorite foods.
Climate Change Poses Existential Water Risks
We often hear it said that climate change is too abstract to win the support needed to effectively combat it.
Energy Crunch: a rare moment of unity
In a rare moment of unity, the leaders of the UK’s three major parties last week agreed to work together on climate change.
To Make Hope Possible Rather Than Despair Convincing
We stand at a precipice in history that demands that the human species achieve some fairly unprecedented evolutionary advances.
What Role for Grazing Livestock?
The Sustainable Food Trust recently organised a meeting to consider the question, ‘What role for grazing livestock in a world of climate change and diet-related disease?’
Industry backlash against fossil fuel divestment forces the question: Which side are you on?
Rather than convincing administrators, or even the fossil fuel industry, of their wrongs, divestment campaigners should be convincing everyone that the movement is right.
Plan B? What Happened to Plan A?
Geoengineering has become known as the US government’s “Plan B” response to climate change.
As Extreme Weather Increases, A Push for Advanced Forecasts
With a warmer atmosphere expected to spur an increase in major storms, floods, and other wild weather events, scientists and meteorologists worldwide are harnessing advanced computing power to devise more accurate, medium-range forecasts that could save lives and property.
Who gets left with the unburnable carbon?
The headline findings on a global level are that around 80% of coal reserves, 50% of gas and one third of oil reserves need to remain unburnt if we are to have this chance of 2°C.
Energy Crunch: Kicking coal?
This week we saw three important signs of the increasingly moribund state of the fossil fuel industry.
Review: The World After Cheap Oil
Written by Finnish energy analysts Rauli Partanen, Harri Paloheimo and Heikki Waris, The World After Cheap Oil offers an exhaustive, up-to-date dissection of the world oil situation.
