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Comment on climate
Featured
- 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
- Why carbon prices can't deliver the 2 degree Celsius target
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
- 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
- Personal reflections on the 23rd COP in Bonn-Fiji – Nov. 2017
'There are legitimate grounds for hope in hard times, but not one speck of ground for wishful thinking […]. hope, comes from doing the things before us that need to be done in the sprit of thankfulness and celebration, without worrying about whether we will win or lose’ D.Orr
... reversal of roles again; adults regress to childish games, whilst a child demonstrates leadership. Parenthood is surely about much more than just doing what’s convenient. It’s about time us grown-ups grew up!
Please please do not take this as a condemnation of clean energy. Take this as a serious warning: things are not going even half as well as they should.
We humans are losing this fight but too few people know it. https://t.co/4S8mP9DZrf