TalkClimateChange

A recent post from esteemed Red Team blogger Daryl provoked at least one colourful response, and a challenge to the level of argument that the Red Team has to offer. I have never been one to shy away from a challenge, so let’s Talk Climate Conspiracy.
The Roots.
The science of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) really […]

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 […]

On the surface, Japan fails miserably on just about every measure when it comes to tackling climate change - rejecting a global 2 degree Celsius maximum warming target, and relying on voluntary industrial emissions targets which have so far seen Japan fall short of its Kyoto obligations.
Even so, Japan’s Prime Minister is keen to […]

Unveiling its national climate change roadmap yesterday, India made it’s latest move in an ongoing stand-off against the US on Co2 emissions targets. The US has refused to set binding targets as long as rapidly developing nations remain unconstrained in their emissions outputs. Conversely, India is unwilling to reduce its emissions whilst the US […]

We’ve been preparing ourselves for a big non-story this week as the world’s biggest emitters of green-house gasses meet in Hawaii for more pre-talks about the successor to the Kyoto treaty.
However, it looks as if we are going to have to continue thinking up opinions of our own to fill the pages of TalkClimateChange after […]

 
British motorists are in focus again as Green Britain considers additional taxes on gas guzzlers alongside incentives to encourage more eco-friendly vehicles.
A recent report from the department of transport has shown that the middle market – vehicles emitting between 141 grams and 225 grams of CO 2 per kilometre – is likely to be the […]

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 […]

First tensions are emerging between EU lawmakers and businesses as plans are cemented to implement EU targets for climate change.
Joining the Red Team this week are French Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and the European Trade Union Confederation, and joining the Green Team please welcome European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.
Unions in Europe have expressed […]

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 […]

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 […]

An article in The Guardian newspaper today confirms our long held suspicion that despite being convinced of the risks of climate change (according to a recent poll, 9 out of 10 people believe it is a problem), the majority of people aren’t really prepared to make any kind of sacrifice to deal with the problem […]

2007 was a big year in Climate Change, which saw the US u-turn on climate policy (on the surface at least), the emergence of the EU and the UK as world climate leaders, continued climate record breaking as temperatures soared and the North West passage was opened up, the worldwide release of An Inconvenient Truth, […]

Call them extremists, alarmists or fanatics, the climate change debate suffers from its fair share of those who are counterproductive and prevent progress and understanding by the propagation of extreme views.
This is a serious issue in current times as our elected leaders begin to make important decisions which may have profound impacts on our future. The […]

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.

EU ministers are set to agree a deal which will see aircraft emissions continue to rise, and potentially offer a large cash bonus to airlines.
Environmental campaigners will be unsatisfied with a scheme which is likely to do little to reduce emissions, while the rest of us can grumble at funding another EU bureaucratic nightmare which […]