Posts under ‘Climate Change’

Kyoto out, the fight against climate change is finally gaining traction

by Michael Meacher.

David Cameron, with his flair for hypocrisy, regularly claims that his government is the greenest government ever. Of course the opposite is true, with Osborne offering the biggest subsidies to fracking of any country, promising huge concessions to any company British or foreign prepared to build a new nuclear plant, stamping on wind power and […]

Nuclear: when one white elephant collapses, build another

by Michael Meacher.

It is almost incredible, but true, that the Government can build a MOX (mixed oxide) plant at Sellafield costing £1.5bn which lamentably and comprehensively fails to meet its manufacturing targets and therefore has to be closed down, yet then is determined against all the odds to build another one at a cost of £2-3bn. These […]

Can anything or anybody stop climate chaos?

by Michael Meacher.

It says a great deal about current human values, the grip of the economic elite over society, and the scarcely challenged dominance of free market capitalism that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere passed 400 parts per million for the first time in 4.5 million years, yet it scarcely merited a mention […]

How much evidence does the world need before it faces up to the inevitable?

by Michael Meacher.

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 […]

Ironically, low growth is about the only good prospect for climate change

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.

Double, double, oil is trouble: flashmob reclaim Shakespeare from BP

by Newsdesk.

The crowds at the British Museum seem to approve.

Tories trashing promises as well as the environment

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?

Why the economic case for a third runway at Heathrow still won’t fly

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

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

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 […]

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