The Year of Unceasing Rain (4)
Irony alert ? “Typhoons ? They happen all the time. It’s just a little local storm. Nothing to worry about. Happens every season or so. The locals know how to read the warning signs, and head to high...
View ArticleStop Climate Chaos : 2011 Campaign Idea
The Stop Climate Chaos coalition meet tomorrow to present and hear suggestions on Climate Change campaigning in 2011. How are we going to make it zoom, people ? From some of my project work with faith...
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Camp Frack : Who’s afraid of hydraulic fracturing ?
When do micro-seismic events add up to earthquakes ? Landslips ? Tsunamis ? Who really knows ? These are just a few questions amongst many about underground mining techniques that will probably never...
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The European Union Question #2
Image Credit : Debbie PortwoodUnbelievably, yesterday, people in the British Government sacrificed their careers rather than vote with David Cameron’s three line whip against a Referendum on the UK’s...
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Clicking with Climate
Image Credit : University of California at Berkeley Human beings have two brains. The first is a self-centred workhorse of pragmatic decision-making, interested in social engagement in order to...
View ArticleGeorge Monbiot : Peak Agitation
My electronic mail inbox and Twitter “social media” timeline are full of people sparking and foaming about George Monbiot’s latest kow-tow to American academia. Apparently, he has discarded the...
View ArticleTillerson Talks It Down
Rex Tillerson, Chief Executive Officer of ExxonMobil, was recently invited to talk to the Council on Foreign Relations in the United States of America, as part of their series on CEOs. His “on the...
View ArticleOn Not Setting The Proper Tone
So, I turned up for a national Climate Change campaigning and lobbying day some years ago. I had offered to steward at the event. My attire concerned one of those close to the organising team. After...
View ArticleClimbing the Concern Ladder
How do we get things changed in a democracy ? The model of political campaigning that has been established over the last century is failing us. In the past, if there was a problem, a small group of...
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European Referendum : Corpse Factory
So I was in a meeting on a dateless date, at an organisation with a nameless name, with some other unidentifiable people in the room with me. For some reason I had been invited, I cannot think why. Ah,...
View Article20 Letters
[ Video : George Marshall of the Climate Outreach Information Network launching his new book "Don't Even Think About It" on the communication of climate change at the Harvard Book Store, whereto he...
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Energy Security : National Security #4
Previously, I summarised and sketched the situation regarding Europe’s policy of developing the “Southern Gas Corridor”, to provide Natural Gas supplies from resources that are not the Russian...
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JODI Oil and BP #2
Previously, I was comparing data from the annual BP Statistical Review of World Energy with the annual averages of JODI Oil data, and when I cast my eye over a table of differences, it was easy to...
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