Responding to Killer Gas
What’s a President to do when confronted with killer gas?
climate change
The Flowers of August
It’s called “whiplash weather” and that is certainly what’s happened where I live…the rains have largely stopped. August has been dry…So, should I cheer or jeer the wildflowers?
An interview with Nafeez Ahmed: “This is an unprecedented opportunity”
One of the most illuminating voices in the British media at the moment is Nafeez Ahmed, who has been regularly writing about peak oil, climate change, geopolitics and how they all overlap…
Nemo the Climate Refugee
If you collected all the recent research on marine species and climate change, could you see a pattern of fish and marine species migration?
Victory at Hand for the Climate Movement? – Paul Gilding in Conversation with Asher Miller
In this far ranging discussion, Paul and Asher discuss the importance of the psychology of winning within the climate movement and the evidence Paul sees — in the debate of ideas, in the renewable energy market, in the fear of investors — that the fossil fuel industry is on the cusp of becoming a dying industry.
Sandy Rebuilding Task Force: Climate Change Must Factor In To Rebuilding Effort
On Monday morning, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced the recommendations of a task force dedicated to finding solutions for rebuilding in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.
Climate – headlines
•New IPCC Report: Climatologists More Certain Global Warming Is Caused By Humans, Impacts Are Speeding Up •European forests near ‘carbon saturation point’ •Scientists have a moral obligation to take action on climate change •Study: Watching Fox News Makes You Distrust Climate Scientists
Movements without leaders: What to make of life on an overheating planet
The history we grow up with shapes our sense of reality — it’s hard to shake.
Scientists and Aid Experts Plan for a Warmer Future
Climate scientists and humanitarian relief workers need to collaborate far more closely to prepare for a future of increased extreme weather events.
‘Breaking the power of the fossil fuel industry is going to be the real key’
One point of the campaign is simply to say: these are now rogue industries. We don’t want to be associated with them.
Energy Crunch newsletter – August 9
George Osborne, the newly appointed minister for shale gas development, might have expected some rough headlines this week, but he could hardly have guessed who would supply the fuel.
The rains of July
Last week I relearned an important lesson: life is a force to be reckoned with.
