TalkClimateChange

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 […]

“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes  planning my day difficult,” wrote Elwyn Brooks White, the American writer and champion of the freedom of the individual.
White sums up how I have generally approached life, and I have always had an […]

I think we can all agree the unintended consequences of mandated levels of bio-fuels have had some really devastating results globally. The World Food Programme says the increase in food costs has devastated their 2008 hunger relief programs. Mono-agriculture has reduced crop diversity and added to the problems of nitrogen contamination of water systems as […]

I’ve just been looking at DeSmog Blog’s database on global warming sceptics, which describes exactly how low the bar is to describe oneself as a climate scientist. Based on what I have just read, I think I could probably get away with describing myself as a climate scientist. Yet I openly admit that I […]

Today I had lunch with an investment banker. At some point the discussion turned to climate change, and I hinted at some of the potential business implications, as well as the not insignificant economic effects that we are already seeing.
"But how can one really make any money out of this stuff?" was his earnest […]

Continuing our commentary on the madness of biofuels we have been happy to note that a group of British Members of Parliament  have come to their senses and are petitioning the EU to rethink their biofuels policy.  The report follows a previous admission from the Environment minister of the European Commission that certain environmental and […]

 
Billionaire, entrepreneur, serial adventurer and airline owner Richard Branson is the man behind an innovation which may take the sting out of one of climate change’s biggest sins.
Next month a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 will make the world’s first biofuel powered flight between London and Amsterdam. Testing a blend of 80% conventional aviation fuel and […]

Sir David King, once advisor to Tony Blair, and the man credited with putting climate change firmly on to the British political agenda has claimed that the behaviour of green activists is harming the fight against climate change and delaying the implementation of workable solutions. King is a strong supporter technical solutions, including nuclear power, […]

The EU has at long last admitted that it’s policies on biofuels were a “mistake” and is implementing a policy review to redress the issue. Environment minister of the European Commission Stavros Dimas admitted that certain environmental and social problems associated with biofuels had not been foreseen.
Our view is that the impacts of many green […]

Against expectations US President George Bush has signed a bill mandating a 35mpg fleet average for the American auto industry to be achieved by 2020 amongst other measures aimed at reducing US Co2 emissions.

It’s often hard to be ecologically virtuous. We recently wrote about the things that most people can’t do to prevent climate change, and today we’ve been reading the results of a survey describing the top five sins of climate change.
So once we confess our climate sins, what can we do by way of penance?
We started […]

Between 1974 and 2005 food prices fell by almost 75%. Good news for the whole world, and a good barometer of human progress. Cheap food = well nourished, happy people.
And then came Global Warming.
Global warming threatens our world not by warmer temperatures (historically mankind has prospered in warmer times), but by poorly conceived schemes and […]

The world’s longest running radio soap, The Archers, has been tackling the fallacy of bio-power this week. A brief synopsis follows;