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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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?

It’s worse than we thought, say scientists Roger Pielke (University of Colorado), Prof Tom Wigley (National Centre for Atmospheric Research) and Christopher Green (McGill University) in a paper published in the journal Nature this week.

  Bill Gates once suggested that if the auto industry had advanced as quickly as the computer industry we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.
The auto industry was quick to respond to this, arguing that if they developed their products in the same way as the computer industry […]

Greens have been frequently and often rightly accused of playing the fear and alarm game. But are greens the only ones?
Let’s look at an email I recently received on behalf of a group called The Carbon Sense Coalition. The email comes courtesy of Hans Schreuder, whose website I Love My Carbon Dioxide appears to […]

This post was originally published at EcoWorldly on 24th March.
Today I have returned home having travelled via London’s infamous Heathrow Airport - known disaffectionately by many frequent flyers as Hellrow. I can fully appreciate this sentiment among travellers and can safely say that by just about any measure, Heathrow is the world’s worst airport. […]

Nuclear power – an abundant source of carbon free energy, or a dangerous and expensive power source with huge risks to our health and environment?
Britain may not have much choice in this matter as its government seems determined to take the nuclear route in an effort to bring Co2 emissions in line with its […]

Returning from the Easter break and getting back to work I had two thoughts on my mind; where is my next blog post coming from (having not read the news for four days I was short on inspiration), and how to put a more positive spin on the topic of climate change? TalkClimateChange covers […]

Last week I wrote of the need to invest tax revenues from motorists into the poor public transport infrastructure which exists in many countries today - an issue set to become a critical developmental factor as both population and our need for mobility grows. Following some brief discussion on the rights and wrongs of […]

Fans of the British Television Series “Yes Minister” will be familiar with the trials of Government Minister Jim Hacker at the hands of dastardly civil servant Sir Humphrey Appleby, frequently demonstrating the futility of promoting progress in a government bureaucracy. A typical exchange between the confounded Hacker and slippery Sir Humphrey plays out as […]

Paul Yeager at Accuweather recently dug up an article from the BBC which we missed last Summer. The article, entitled "Climate skepticism: The top 10", outlines the ten most common climate skeptic arguments, together with the appropriate rebuffs.

Did you know, that by reading TalkClimateChange and other climate change related information widely discussed on the Internet, you are likely to feel less responsible and less concerned about the whole problem in the first place?
In a recent New York Times article, John Tierney reports on the curious results of a recent survey conducted by […]

Late last year, the European Union sensibly decided to impose strict targets on its car manufacturers to improve fuel efficiency standards. Fuel efficiency, which has barely improved in previous years, is seen as a key opportunity to bridge the growing energy gap in the near term future.
Under the scheme, manufacturers were, sensibly, given a […]