November 2009 - TINA rides again...
on Nov 20, 2009A recent report by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IoME) boldly declared that the UK had already failed in its quest to prevent dangerous climate change: “With only four decades to go, the UK is already losing the climate change mitigatio...

October 2009 - Money money money
on Oct 30, 2009First published on the Climate Safety blog, on 27/09/09 http://climatesafety.org/money-money-money/ A recent report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) asked what it would take for action on climate change to be ‘mainstreamed’ . Th...

October 2009 - Psychology & Climate Change
on Oct 26, 2009>>>>first published on the Guardian website, 26/09/09http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2009/oct/26/psychology-of-climate-change From 10:10 to the government's Act On CO2 campaign, it is now widely accepted that tackling climate change w...

September 2009 - 10% …but what kind? The Disconnection between Private and Public Action.
on Sep 30, 200910% is the figure of the moment in UK Politics. First of all Fanny Armstrong’s 10:10 campaign, which calls on individuals and organisations to cut 10% of their carbon in 2010, has caught on with the political community - On september the 3rd the Gu...

September 2009 - What are we going to do at Copenhagen (part II)
on Aug 31, 2009Some possible answers:http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/table/2009/aug/05/climate-change-ngo-copenhagen...

August 2009 - What are we going to do at Copenhagen?
on Aug 18, 2009Oh, to be a member of the anti-vivisection movement. OK, so standing in the rain on a Saturday afternoon handing out pictures of tortured animals is no-one's idea of fun. But at least their purposes are well defined: they want an end to animal testin...

July 2009 - The sky's the limit?
on Jul 16, 2009The past seven days have seen a wave of activity from the Department for Energy and Climate Change. With the publication of the UK Low Carbon Transition plan outlining the first steps in Britain's attempted transition towards a post-carbon (well, a 2...

June 2009 - Climate sceptics: Certain about Uncertainty?
on Jun 26, 2009First published in the Environment section of the Guardian on 25/06/09: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2009/jun/25/climate-science-uncertainty It seems the one thing climate change sceptics are certain of is uncertainty, in particula...

June 2009 - Reclaiming the language of localism from the BNP
on Jun 9, 2009In European elections voted in by just over a third of the eligible UK population, held during a global recession, and in the wake of an unprecedented disintegration of the Labour party's remaining working-class vote, the far right British National P...

May 2009 - Geo-engineering: Denial on a Global Scale
on May 22, 2009>>>published on www.climatedenial.org...