Blog: Climate

24 hours to get cleaner cars

Posted by Hugh Mouser - 23 April 2013 at 6:17pm - Comments

Who'd have thought it? Just days before MEPs vote on what future cars should look like, UK oil companies, together with the RAC, have just come forward and said we're asking for the right amount of car fuel efficiency.

Article tagged as: cars, climate change, emissions, EU

All Rise: what does justice sound like?

Posted by Sarah Keenan - 23 April 2013 at 2:37pm - Comments
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The performance of Liberate Tate's latest BP-focused piece

Three years ago last Sat­urday, an oil rig around 50 kilo­metres off the coast of Louisi­ana exploded. The explo­sion killed eleven work­ers instant­an­eously, and marked the begin­ning of an 87-​day period of uncon­trol­lable crude oil spillage into the Gulf of Mex­ico, the sea-​floor well spew­ing out around 4.9m bar­rels of oil before it was finally capped on 15 July 2010.

Article tagged as: art, BP, climate change, liberate tate, tate modern

Not-quite-instant karma's gonna get you

Posted by Graham Thompson - 23 April 2013 at 12:21pm - Comments
George Osborne slightly overwhelmed
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Osborne feeling slightly overwhelmed

This week, the Office of National Statistics will tell us if Britain has slipped into a triple dip recession, and if the news is grim we may be treated to the sight of George Osborne – the most stridently anti-environment chancellor for a generation – blaming it all on climate change.

Article tagged as: budget, climate, climate change, george osborne, low carbon

To the Arctic Council, with love

Posted by Markus Power - 23 April 2013 at 11:11am - Comments

Last Saturday, more than 10,000 people came together all across the globe to take a stand for the Arctic. Organisers hosted human banners in the shape of a heart, spelling out 'I Love Arctic', in more than 280 cities in 38 countries from Chile to New Zealand and from Norway to South Africa. Looking at these beautiful photos, I think the results speak for themselves.

Article tagged as: arctic, climate change, I love Arctic, Save the Arctic

Bubbles in the ice

Posted by Graham Thompson - 19 April 2013 at 6:21pm - Comments
Arctic landscape with blue sky
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What's it worth?

Ancient ice cores, drilled from the thickest glaciers in the Arctic, allow you to examine the atmosphere from thousands of years ago when the ice was last water, by analysing the gases contained in the bubbles trapped in the ice. It’s the carbon content scientists are particularly interested  in – they’re looking for carbon bubbles, and they’re willing to go to the ends of the earth, quite literally, to find them.

But there’s another type of carbon bubble which is even more important in the climate debate, and so far we’ve been doing our utmost to ignore it. This week that began get more difficult.

Article tagged as: arctic, carbon bubble, carbon budget, climate

Global day of action: We love the Arctic, Saturday April 20

Posted by Nic S - 16 April 2013 at 2:24pm - Comments

As the ice melts, oil companies are threatening the pristine Arctic with industrial disaster. On Saturday, April 20, the world is calling for action to protect the Arctic for all of humanity.  Join the global day of action near you and be part of the urgent call for Arctic protection, because what happens in the Arctic affects us all.

Article tagged as: action, APRIL, arctic, climate, day, global, kiruna, love, UK

Born Wrongborg

Posted by Graham Thompson - 15 April 2013 at 4:59pm - Comments
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Cross my palm with silver...

Bjorn Lomborg, the man who used to be the world’s most well-known climate sceptic, has resurfaced in the Wall Street Journal and Channel 4 with a new way to be wrong on climate change.

Article tagged as: climate change, climate skeptics, lomborg

Hanging's too good for us

Posted by Graham Thompson - 12 April 2013 at 4:10pm - Comments
Exhibit A : James Delingpole
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Exhibit D

The winner of the bloggy awards’ best political blog and the winner of the bloggy awards’ best scientific blog are having a fight after school. This is the best show since the Olympics. Popcorn, anyone?

Article tagged as: climate change, climate skeptics, delingpole, energygate

We all need to learn about climate change

Posted by Esha Marwaha - 12 April 2013 at 1:59pm - Comments
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Esha Marwaha student and campaigner for national climate education

On Monday, 15th April, Esha Marwaha will hand in her petition to urge education secretary, Michael Gove, to keep the climate change debate on the curriculum. The 15-year-old geography student, and 28,000 others are demanding he scraps his plans to remove climate change from geography lessons. Let's see if it can reach 30,000 before the petition is handed over.

Article tagged as: change, climate, education, esha, geogrpahy, petition

When is inevitable not inevitable?

Posted by Charlie Kronick - 11 April 2013 at 7:35pm - Comments
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Shell's rig, Kulluk, prepared for transport to asia for repairs

The end of 2012 and first months of 2013 have seen a remarkable change in the fight to protect the Arctic from risky and dangerous oil exploration.    Three oil “majors” –  Total, Statoil and Conoco-Phillips - have withdrawn from drilling projects in the far North.   

Article tagged as: arctic, charlie, climate, company, kronick, oil, shell
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