TalkClimateChange

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Much has been said following the Bali Climate Summit of the dangers to the world economy through emissions cap & trade schemes which threaten to hinder industrial development and cripple the world economy. Many observers are predicting the end of Western economic success as schemes are implemented which will limit growth - the main barometer […]