In 3 days time, next Monday, the temperature forecast by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology is an unprecedented 52C. This is not just an academic record: the bush-fires, 130 raging across New South Wales alone and at least 40 burning out of control, are not only physically terrifying but also ruinously destructive, with 20,000 hectares [...]
Posts under ‘Climate Change’
How much evidence does the world need before it faces up to the inevitable?
Jan 12th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.
Ironically, low growth is about the only good prospect for climate change
Jan 5th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.Climate destabilisation, like tax avoidance, is one of those bad things which governments wring their hands about, say they are deeply opposed to allowing this profoundly harmful phenomenon to flourish, and then proceed not only to do next-to-nothing to stop it, but actually themselves fan the flames to extend it. Bookmarks Hide Sites
Double, double, oil is trouble: flashmob reclaim Shakespeare from BP
Nov 20th, 2012 by Newsdesk.The crowds at the British Museum seem to approve. Bookmarks Hide Sites
Tories trashing promises as well as the environment
Sep 7th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.How about this for ‘the greenest government ever’?: Appointing as the new secretary of state for energy a man who hates windfarms, loves airports, and wants to maximise the exploitation of shale gas? Bookmarks Hide Sites
Why the economic case for a third runway at Heathrow still won’t fly
Sep 6th, 2012 by Ann Pettifor.UK aviation makes up greater share of UK contribution to climate change than elsewhere. The world’s climate is changing rapidly (despite the army of powerful self-interested deniers), and we are experiencing more and more extreme weather events. Ironically, on the day the aviation industry launched a sophisticated, co-ordinated lobbying campaign for a third runway, scientists announced a record Arctic [...]
Energy supply is national security issue, not for flogging off to China
Jul 23rd, 2012 by Michael Meacher.Cameron has often said Britain is open for business. What it seems he meant was Britain is open for sale. There is no other country in the world which would throw open its strategic industrial sectors to a foreign power. That is exactly what the Tories are now proposing to do with handing over the building and [...]
‘Energy is what I say it is’ said the Mad Hatter to Alice
May 31st, 2012 by Michael Meacher.Can you believe a single word they say? The government’s new Energy Bill published last week was proclaimed as enabling the UK to “move away from high carbon technologies” (i.e. coal, oil and gas). The Bill says that to meet the government’s statutory commitment to cut greenhouse gases by 80% by 2050, electricity plants must [...]
Hague on about ‘green leadership’ a bit rich when Tory record is deepest brown
May 16th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.We know there’s more joy in heaven about one sinner who repents than about 99 just persons, but William Hague lauding the government’s green record and calling on colleagues (in a leaked letter) to “avoid losing global leadership on the environment” takes the biscuit. This is a government that seduced voters before the last election [...]
Tories in full-scale attack on green policies
Apr 17th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.How can Cameron believe that anyone takes seriously his claim that he runs the greenest government ever? If that’s not meant to be a rancid joke, he must be even more out-of-touch than we thought, even after the budget, the No.10 dinner parties, jerry pans and pasties. Bookmarks Hide Sites
The most environmentally destructive government ever?
Mar 8th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.Two days ago Ed Davey, the replacement for Huhne as Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change, repeated again the Coalition’s boast that it was the greenest government ever. Even by the standards of current self-congratulatory political rhetoric, that’s pretty vapid. It’s worth exploring the actual record. The Coalition Agreement proposed to increase the [...]
