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25 Years Later, Climate Change Becomes the New War?


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 […]

US To Set Binding Climate Goals (just kidding)


I woke up this morning to find a blockbuster headline on the BBC news website - “US to set ‘binding’ climate goals”. Full of excitement I eagerly scanned through the article looking for more details on what promised to be a ground breaking event in climate negotiations - it’s not every day that an easy […]

Thanks! - What I’ve Learnt From My Readers

  • Posted by Mark
  • February 15, 2008

A recent comment on TalkClimateChange prompted me to think about and write about something that I have wanted to comment on for some time.
In response to a recent post, Kaishu raises the issue of general public opinion;
Get off the net for a bit and you’ll realise that almost everyone agrees there’s a problem, and […]

Bush implements hard targets with energy bill


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.

Leadership, Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics and Co2 Emissions Data


The Bali Climate Change summit meeting got off to a promising start this morning, with US President George Bush proudly claiming that US Co2 emissions have fallen by 1.5% in 2006 from levels in 2005.
A quick look at figures published earlier this year by the US Department of Energy shows a slightly different story. In […]