May 07 2010
Hansen will use the symbolically charged 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking speech to the US Congress - in which he was among the first to sound the alarm over the reality of global warming - to argue that radical steps need to be taken immediately if the “perfect storm” of irreversible climate change is not [...]
May 07 2010
The operation sprang directly from Big Tobacco’s war against science. It has used the same fake experts, the same public relations companies and the same tactics: as I showed in my book Heat, the campaign against action on climate change was partly launched by the tobacco company Philip Morris. But while the tobacco companies’ professional [...]
May 07 2010
Speaking to reporters in Tokyo, Blair said his new report, Breaking the Climate Deadlock, was “designed to be a practical way through; not yet another campaigning polemic to wake the world up to the challenges of global warming. The world has woken up. Now it needs to know what to do.”
Blair, who is working with [...]
May 07 2010
Updating a study it conducted two years ago, it calls on leaders of the Group of Eight leading economies, particularly the United States - the world’s largest per capita polluter - to commit themselves to firm timetables for emissions reductions at next week’s summit in Tokyo.
It now estimates the cost of a 50% reduction in [...]
May 07 2010
The government has some good climate policies. It also has some bleeding disastrous ones, which appear to commit the United Kingdom to high carbon pollution for the entire period covered by the bill. A future labor government would find itself snared by its own current policies. Surely it wouldn’t be foolish enough to set such [...]
