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Climate Change - who is right and are we wrong?


 
Two letters were written by two sets of credible scientists last week and addressed to the UN. One letter urged action to combat global warming by reducing Co2 emissions, and the other urged leaders to ignore the previous letter and focus on more pressing priorities instead. (see below for links and highlights)
It is clearly a […]

Forget climate treaties and help the world instead?


The results of poll were announced yesterday, revealing that two thirds of the UK population have no confidence that world leaders can agree on future solutions to climate change at the Bali summit.
But forget future solutions - the world has proven that we can’t even execute previous solutions; Despite the rhetoric of various national leaders, […]

Prevention VS Adaptation: Eliminate Co2 emissions, or have fun in the sun?


In the absence of a hot headline from Bali to shout about, we’ve been musing the climate change prevention vs cure debate. Should we focus on preventing the disease by eliminating Co2 emissions as fast as possible? Or should we forget about that, enjoy life, and  focus on ways to enhance the pleasure of living […]