Stopping the dash for gas: both possible, and necessary
contribution by Will McCallum As campaigners from No Dash for Gas finish their first week on top of the chimneys of West Burton power station, braving over 80 hours of high winds, rain and cold with...
View ArticleWill Osborne vote to rein in the obscenity of food speculation this week?
contribution by Stuart Rodger On the 13th of November, George Osborne will make a decision which could, quite literally, determine whether millions of people around the world starve to death, or not....
View ArticleShakespearean flashmob hits British Museum over BP oil
200 members of the Reclaim Shakespeare Company took over the British Museum’s Great Court and performed a series of anti-BP plays yesterday. The flashmob of ‘actor-vists’ known as the performed a...
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Ed Mili: this govt not taking climate change seriously
Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party, will today call on the Government to commit to the 2030 de-carbonisation target. In a speech at Whitelee Wind Farm in Scotland, he will criticise the...
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Why we need major action at the Climate Change meet in Doha
by Philip Pearson As the UN assembles in Qatar for its 18th annual climate change conference, a new UN report warns of a 14 billion tonne “emissions gap” in 2020 between “business as usual” and the...
View ArticleWhy is Labour ignoring the biggest issue of our generation?
Last week when the government was in complete conflict over the Energy Bill, Ed Miliband was applauded for calling on them to stick to de-carbonisation targets. But it was a low-key speech, made in...
View ArticleThe ten whoppers by Boris on shale Gas and fracking in the Telegraph
by Damian Kahya Britain should get fracking, says the Mayor of London in a surprisingly detailed intervention into the UK’s energy policy in the Telegraph on Monday. We give 10 of his claims the once...
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Note to British media: climate change denial is NOT increasing
I’ll begin with two questions: What proportion of Americans say there is solid evidence that the earth is warming? Is it: a) one quarter; b) one third; c) a half; or d) two thirds? What has happened to...
View ArticleWhy the Telegraph is wrong on the cost of wind turbines to our bills
by Damian Kahya How much are we paying for the power lines that connect Offshore wind turbines to the UK? A release from the reputable Public Accounts Committee reported in almost every newspaper...
View ArticleThe climate change denial industry’s dirty money-trail gets exposed
James ‘saviour of Western civilisation’ Delingpole eagerly recycled an article from a senior advisor to the Heartland Institute back in November 2011, because it gave him the answer he wanted to hear....
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The Mail on Sunday’s David Rose keeps writing rubbish about climate change
It seems no Sunday is now complete without another pile of nonsense about climate change from David Rose in the Mail on Sunday (see my previous post here for example) and last week was no exception....
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Major poll shows belief in Climate Change isn’t falling and scientists ARE...
Last week the site Carbon Brief released information on their extensive energy and climate change polling, which you can read about on their site. But as with any apparently new information, it’s...
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How the debate on climate change went wrong, and how we can turn it around
The Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will be out from September this year. This should be a big deal: it’s six years since the last report, and that was headline...
View ArticleThe government is trying to scrap the England Coast Path, and we need your help
by David Hodd Does a coast path matter? As a nation we love the coast: whether we are talking of the Thames marshes depicted by Dickens and Constable, the rocky headlands of the South West, the White...
View ArticleEd Balls is also giving an important speech tomorrow
For the first time since the general election, one of the Eds is giving a major speech on climate change. Tomorrow, it will be Ed Balls, rather than the former climate change minister, who will break...
View ArticleAndrew Neil pretends he has ‘no view’ on climate change denial
In an expertly constructed apologia, Daily and Sunday Politics frontman Andrew Neil has sought to justify his approach to climate change and rebut criticism, following his recent interview of Ed Davey....
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The challenge now for those opposed to Fracking across the UK
Carbon Brief’s new poll shows how little support there is for shale gas fracking in the UK. But while the poll suggests supporters of shale have problems to overcome, it also shows that anti-fracking...
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Balcombe is a wake up call for local communities over Fracking
by Philip Pearson As Caroline Lucas MP was arrested at the Balcombe fracking site (19 August) she spoke of the “democratic deficit” being so enormous that “people are left with very little option but...
View ArticleAnti-Fracking protestors need to be much better at getting their message across
On my way to work on Monday I was curious to see a small group of anti-fracking protesters superglued to the entrance of Bell Pottinger, the PR firm used by energy company Cuadrilla. The irony is,...
View ArticleA New Rural Manifesto for Labour: we call for your support
by Jack Eddy It is uncontroversial to say that Labour lacks rural appeal. Labour’s voice in the British countryside has been inadequate for decades, but has hit a low-ebb in recent years. Even in the...
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