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Climate change is kept in the curriculum but it’s a bittersweet victory

Posted by Esha Marwaha - 8 July 2013 at 12:43pm - Comments
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Esha and fellow activists handing in the petition calling for climate change lessons to be kept in the curriculum to the Department for Education

A few months ago, I sat expressing my anger towards the removal of climate change from the geography curriculum for key stages 1 – 3. The Department for Education seemed to overlook the very people who this decision would affect – school students. A few months later, I am happy and relieved to say that our request to keep climate in the curriculum has been acknowledged. 

Article tagged as: climate change, Gove, national curriculum, petition

Sympathy for the revel - Glastonbury 2013

Posted by kcumming - 5 July 2013 at 4:07pm - Comments

It’s not every day we trump the Rolling Stones. But more than once at Glastonbury 2013, I overheard people pointing to the Greenpeace field and saying “that’s been my favourite thing at the festival”.

Article tagged as: 2013, cummings, eavis, glastonbury, kathy, Micheal, stones

Where did all the fun go?

Posted by Hugh Mouser - 4 July 2013 at 6:43pm - Comments
Electric car charging station sign
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Sign of the times, but car companies are dragging their heels over electric vehicles

I grew up on a diet of TV shows like Knight Rider and The A Team. I saw Ferrari and Mclaren produce faster cars as time went by. I admired how the car industry kept on trying to improve.

But it seems like some carmakers have lost the fun of innovation.

Article tagged as: BMW, cars, climate change, co2 emissions, daimler, EU, transport, VW

Power up: world's largest wind farm switched on

Posted by Liam Kirkaldy - 4 July 2013 at 1:40pm - Comments
Wind turbine, part of the London Array
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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 - Comments
Aerial of an oil spill in a forest near Surgut
All rights reserved. Credit: Denis Sinyakov Greenpeace
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 - Comments

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 - Comments
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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 - Comments

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 - Comments
Car exhaust fumes
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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 - Comments
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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

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