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Comment on climate
Featured
- Whilst in many respects I welcome the headline framing of the Government's “net-zero” proposal, sift amongst the detail and all is far from rosy
- UK Climate Minister undermines the Committee on Climate Change & pulls the rug on the 1.5°C report
- Personal reflections on the latest Bonn-Fiji climate meeting (COP23) - November 2017
- Film review of Leonardo DiCaprio's Before the Flood
- Individual or collective responsibility? A false dichotomy
- Rambling thoughts on 1.5 Celsius, economic growth and academic freedom
- The Paris Agreement ... how techno-utopias mask the need for deep political & economic change
- Are climbers & outdoor types custodians of the countryside or simply smash & grab looters?
- Climate modellers are self-censoring their scenarios to conform to the dominant political paradigm
- Why UK shale gas is incompatible with the 2 degree Celsius framing of dangerous climate change
Media
- Debate with environmental business advisor on flying, emissions & leading by example
- Weak EU decarbonisation target risks locking in dangerous climate change
- Scientists suggest UN climate talks are going backwards & risk 4°C of warming
- Holding to 2°C is an issue of equity; the wealthy must change their ways
- Article on climate science, carbon budgets and fear of speaking out
Written
- Brief response to the UK Government’s “net-zero” proposal
- Capricious foes, Big Sister & high-carbon plutocrats: irreverent musings from Katowice’s COP24
- Trump – the climate’s secret champion?
- Will Poland’s COP24 Presidency and its addiction to coal undermine ambitious global climate goals?
- Callous or calamitous? … the UK climate minister pulls the rug from under 1.5°C
#beyondoil2019 @jessicadjewell focuses on ‘beyond coal’, noting this is already ongoing - significantly because the plants are simply getting old. Still 292GtCO2 in existing & planned capacity (~50% of what @TyndallManc colleagues estimate as a Paris-complaint carbon budget).