Ecopedia: Climate Change
Climate Change
Climate change - are we doing enough?
- By Jax Jacobsen
- 23 April 2008
Are plans to cut carbon emissions by 60 per cent enough to stave off the worst effects of climate change?
Has global warming really stopped?
- By Mark Lynas
- 14 January 2008
Mark Lynas responds to a controversial article on newstatesman.com which argued global warming has stopped
Nuclear fallout
- By Caroline Lucas
- 11 January 2008
The government’s commitment to nuclear power will undermine national and environmental security for decades
Has global warming stopped?
- By David Whitehouse
- 19 December 2007
'The fact is that the global temperature of 2007 is statistically the same as 2006 and every year since 2001'. Plus read Mark Lynas's response
And the biggest NGO in Bali?
- By Peter Hardstaff
- 10 December 2007
Who is actually attending the Bali climate conference
Blogging Bali
- By Peter Hardstaff
- 03 December 2007
The World Development Movement's Peter Hardstaff reports from the Bali conference on climate change
Not the general election
- 30 October 2007
Instead of the 1 November election and in association with The Fabians we've asked a range of people their views on the direction Gordon Brown should be taking ahead of what is expected to be a 2009 poll. Look out for Clare Short, Anthony Giddens, Shami Chakrabarti and more. Then why not add your own five point plan?
Zac, are you serious?
- By Sian Berry
- 20 September 2007
On 13 September, Sian gave her reaction to the Tory Quality of Life group's report. Then we gave its co-author Zac Goldsmith, a right of reply. Here Sian answers back.
Green papers, white lies, hot air
- By Mark Lynas
- 20 September 2007
Britain's policy on global warming remains mired in confusion, with too much debate and too little action. But there is a solution ...
The mother of all injunctions
- By Robbie Gillett
- 13 August 2007
In our first Heathrow Climate Camp report Plane Stupid's Robbie Gillett gives his take on BAA's injunction
Global Warming
Securing Britain's energy
- By Nick Clegg
- 21 May 2008
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg warns Gordon Brown not to go ahead with a new generation of coal power plants, starting with Kingsnorth, and says our future must be low carbon
An American spanner in the works
- By Peter Hardstaff
- 14 December 2007
Peter Hardstaff reports on the anger felt at the Bali climate conference over the US stance on cutting emissions
Mark Lynas's Green Grid
- By Mark Lynas
- 13 December 2007
Should the incremental approach of Kyoto be extended, or ditched for something more ambitious? Read the arguments for and against and vote in our climate choice poll
Happy 10th birthday Kyoto
- By Peter Hardstaff
- 12 December 2007
As people at the Bali conference sing 'happy birthday dear Kyoto' Peter Hardstaff reports on America's blocking game
Dr Quack's miracle climate remedies
- By Peter Hardstaff
- 11 December 2007
Roll up, roll up to hear some global warming solutions
A new Kyoto?
- By Peter Hardstaff
- 05 December 2007
At the Bali conference, Peter Hardstaff reflects on the differences between campaigning for and campaigning against
No election? Is it good or bad?
- By Sian Berry
- 08 October 2007
Following Gordon Brown's confirmation there will be no autumn poll Sian Berry reflects on the up and downsides to not having an election at the moment
Can America go green?
- By Elizabeth Kolbert
- 19 June 2006
Why are Americans so sceptical about global warming? Possibly because they really don't want to do anything about it, argues Elizabeth Kolbert
Letting climate change happen
- By John Gray
- 29 May 2006
All shades of opinion are in denial about the magnitude of the environmental challenge facing us. Our need to be comfortable may be stronger than our will to survive, argues John Gray
Global Warming - Changing Perspectives
The truth will not necessarily out
- By Mark Lynas
- 26 March 2007
The debate about the reality of global warming is not going away
Is it too little, too late?
- By Mark Lynas
- 06 November 2006
Mark Lynas checks the maths and finds the targets seriously inadequate
Global warning
- By Mark Lynas
- 27 February 2006
The Revenge of Gaia
James Lovelock Allen Lane, the Penguin Press,
177pp, £16.99
ISBN 0713999144
NS Essay - Global warming: is it already too late?
- By Mark Lynas
- 17 May 2004
A forthcoming film that shows New York drowning may be based on dodgy science. But as the world gets hotter, climate change really could run out of control and we would be powerless to stop it
Why we don't give a damn
- By George Marshall and Mark Lynas
- 01 December 2003
Once again, world leaders meet to hear of new threats posed by global warming. Once again, they appear unable to act. George Marshall and Mark Lynas explain why
It's later than you think
- By Mark Lynas
- 30 June 2003
Mark Lynas has seen the results of man-made climate change across five continents. Only urgent action can now prevent a catastrophe, he argues
The rich man and the butterfly. Are we trapped on a runaway train? Bjorn Lomborg, self-styled sceptical environmentalist, on why ecologists are wrong to despair about the future of the planet
- By Bjorn Lomborg
- 29 July 2002
Rising Tides: a history of the environmental revolution and visions for an ecological age
Rory Spowers Canongate Books, 334pp, £14.99
ISBN 184195246X
How to cut energy use without pain
- By John Prescott
- 20 November 1998
John Prescott insists that we can remain prosperous and still beat global warming
