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Are We Failing to Observe the Real Issues?


Last week, I wrote about the frustrations of being an environmentalist that questions the world around him. This Easter weekend, I was presented with an excellent example: the Observer Magazine published “The Climate Change Issue”. Edited by pop star Thom Yorke, with 94 pages at its disposal, this Issue comprehensively failed to mention World Water […]

Is The New EU Climate Plan a Heroic Attempt at Leadership? Or Economic Suicide?


Yesterday the European Union announced a new energy emissions plan in its latest bid to fight climate change. As usual, nobody is happy, with businesses warning of higher prices and environmental groups claiming that the measures fall short of the actions needed.
In typical EU style, the plan aims to please everybody and is a […]

From Climate Change to Climate Changed - When Climate Change is no Longer News


We talk a lot about ‘predictions’ for global warming, and we tend to think of it in the future tense. But there is mounting evidence each day that climate change is not something that will happen in the future – we are feeling the first real impacts right now.
The Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets […]