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Power up: world's largest wind farm switched on

Posted by Liam Kirkaldy - 4 July 2013 at 1:40pm

Winds of change: the London Array is the largest windfarm in the world

It would be an understatement to say that today is a big one for renewable energy in this country. Because today the London Array – the world’s largest offshore windfarm – becomes fully operational. The scale is breath-taking – it will supply electricity to around half a million homes while providing a technological benchmark for future renewable sources across the globe to aspire to.

Article tagged as: energy, london array, renewable energy, wind power, windfarms

Russian oil spills damaging impact on local wildlife and the environment

Posted by Fran G - 2 July 2013 at 12:49pm

Aerial of an oil spill in a forest near Surgut. Disastrous oil spills are a daily routine at Rosneft fields near Pyt'-Yah, Khanty-Mansi region, Siberia.

Denis Sinyakov, who covered Greenpeace’s expedition to the Rosneft’s oil fields, is a Moscow-based Russian photographer, who worked as a photo editor and a staff photographer at Agence France-Presse and Reuters.

Article tagged as: arctic, oil spills, russia, siberia, wildlife

Save the Arctic from Shell and its Russian friends

Posted by ianduff - 2 July 2013 at 8:00am

The Arctic is once again under attack from oil companies.

Over the past year we’ve seen just how reckless Arctic drilling is. Shell, one of the world’s biggest and most powerful corporations, has been leading the charge but a catalogue of screw-ups forced it to pause its drilling program in Alaska

Article tagged as: arctic, gazprom, oil, russia, SaveTheArctic, shell

Let's do the Time warp again!

Posted by Graham Thompson - 28 June 2013 at 1:06pm

Thanks to petepassword for this Time Magazine spoof cover

So why did David Rose put a forgery of a Time Magazine cover in the Mail on Sunday? Well, the simple answer is that there weren't any real Time covers which supported his point, otherwise I'm sure he would have used one of them. His point was, to quote Michael Crichton, "in the 1970′s (sic) all the climate scientists believed an ice age was coming.”

The subtext being that climate scientists are slightly hysterical doom-mongers who were wrong then and so can be wrong now. I'm sure you can guess who really has the monopoly on wrongness in this debate.

Article tagged as: climate change, climate sceptics

Dear Mail on Sunday, Time is not on your side

Posted by Graham Thompson - 28 June 2013 at 7:00am

Once in a while, roughly every month or two, Daily Mail journalist David Rose likes to focus his laser-like mind on the twisting swindlers of the so-called scientific community, and write a big exposé of the Great Climate Hoax. He's an expert on hoaxes, and so would never be caught out by one himself. You would think.

Article tagged as: climate change, climate sceptics, David Rose, mail on sunday, time magazine

Cleaner cars vote postponed as Germany secures pit stop for gas guzzlers

Posted by Hugh Mouser - 27 June 2013 at 6:13pm

Clean car vote postponed? We're fuming

It looks like Angela Merkel's call to David Cameron last night has paid off, and the key vote on cleaner cars has been postponed.

Article tagged as: angela merkel, cars, co2 emissions, david cameron, EU, oil, transport

URGENT: is Cameron doing a dangerous last-minute U-turn on cars?

Posted by jamess - 27 June 2013 at 10:50am

You want it? You got it..

We've heard from an inside source that Angela Merkel the German Chancellor called Prime Minister David Cameron last night in a bid to block a critical law to make cleaner European cars. Ministers were supposed to agree the law today.

Article tagged as: cameron, cars, climate, emissions, EU, merkel, oil

This is what a massive forest fire looks like

Posted by Richardg - 25 June 2013 at 11:31am

Huge forest fires in Indonesia are blanketing Singapore and Malaysia with record-breaking pollution

The Sumatran rainforests, home to the last Sumatran tigers, orangutans and rhinos, are on fire. Our team have been on the ground documenting the disaster. These devastating images show what they found.

Article tagged as: APRIL, borneo, deforestation, forest fires, palm oil, pulp and paper, rainforests, sumatra

On a clear day you can see the future

Posted by Graham Thompson - 24 June 2013 at 4:19pm

Borisconi and his chief climate advisor

Borisconi's leadership campaign has struck again, and the Telegraph's somewhat battered reputation for science reporting is again the first casualty.

Article tagged as: boris johnson, climate change, climate sceptics

The final countdown to a decision on law for cleaner cars

Posted by Elena Polisano - 24 June 2013 at 11:01am

Another day another attempt to kill a clean car law in its tracks.

Or so it seems. Because only the other week I wrote about the German government’s last ditch attempt to sabotage a law that will cut CO2 emissions from cars and provide 400,000 new jobs by 2030 across Europe. Now they're back with round two. No prizes for guessing that they’ve gone for stamina over originality.

Article tagged as: cars, europe, oil

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