TalkClimateChange

Some thoughts before TalkClimateChange takes a brief 10 day sabbatical.
The Blogosphere thrives on debate - the very nature of the medium encourages discussion and the presentation of alternative view points. This is the reason that TalkClimateChange exists, and the reason why Daryl, Matt and myself organise our viewpoints into Red, Green and Blue categories, […]

Following the discussion on the Stern report’s projections for the economic cost / benefit of tackling climate change, I’d like to introduce a new perspective: The cost of climate change avoidance is irrelevant, since most of today’s avoidance schemes are wholly ineffective anyway.
I make this assertion following UK treasury projections that the “green levy” on […]

When former World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern released his report of the same name last year, he brought about a fundamental shift in the climate debate – moving from an environmental to an economic focus.
Essentially, the Stern report concluded that the impacts of climate change are likely to far outweigh the cost of […]

Editor’s note: Daryl is actually feeling fine - we checked after reading this..
I’ve just read an article on MSN / Sympatico called “The cheapest way to save the Earth“, which actually made sense to me - and it is about lifestyle changes!
Now a caveat: I don’t actually agree with it all, but I do […]

Whilst I have written on occasion for the Red Team on TalkClimateChange, I am predominantly a Green Team writer – generally believing that environmental concerns should be at the forefront of our agenda. With increasing population and consumption I believe that we are driving down a cul-de-sac, blind to the consequences of our reckless […]

This post was originally published on EcoWorldly. It is loosely connected with climate change in that it concerns the potential for the mass adoption of public transport, although I post it here purely for your interest and to spread the message.
Putting pen to paper for Bus Transportation Week I began to make a few notes […]

Philip Pullman, author of the excellent “His Dark Materials” trilogy, was recently quoted as saying with respect to energy and carbon rations, “We should have a fixed limit and if you use it all up in October, then tough, you shiver for the rest of the year“.  That doesn’t sound so good, but since […]

For some reason the announcement yesterday that George Bush planned to give a speech making new US commitments to tackle climate change completely failed to register with me. So familiar have I become with grand political statements on climate change that instead of eagerly awaiting the news I instead forgot all about it until reading […]

Recently a reader, Nadine,  posted a comment with a question which sparked my interest. Instead of a long and badly worded comment, I thought I would elevate the answer to her question to a fully fledged blog post. I think that the question is a valid one which is worthy of investigation here and is […]

There is a popular body of thought within the climate change debate which says that we would be better off focusing on adaptation to climate change rather than trying to prevent it. Focusing on our current problems, they say, and on those that might be brought about in the future as a result of […]

Al Gore, new thinking on the climate crisis

Al Gore’s latest 30 minute slide-show is now available on You Tube, with a predictable range of comments from You Tube viewers.
Let us know what you think?

Plans were approved this week to build what has been described as an “ultra mega power project” in the form of a $4.2 billion, 4,000 MW coal fired power station in Gujarat, India.
Environmentalists will be dismayed to hear of this decision, which will generate up to 23 million tons of Co2. However, many arguments against […]

I am going to get a little introspective about my life and the contradictions I face everyday in my work, my lifestyle, and my opinions in an effort to see if there is a balance that can be reached in regards to adapting to a changing world.
I do this in the hope that by […]

We recently kicked off a debate on our discussion forums on the pro’s and con’s of nuclear power. Pitting Rod of Atomic Insights and Matt from TalkClimateChange against each other, we asked if nuclear power really is a safe and abundant source of pollution free power, or is it a dangerous and expensive fix to […]

 
My life was made easy today when Leo Hickman of The Guardian Climate Change blog wrote a great post expressing many of the sentiments that I frequently write about here.
So rather than trying to write one of those difficult Monday posts myself I’ll simply give you Leo’s opening and closing statements (which could have […]