The key argument mounted by Martin Durkin in the Channel 4 documentary, ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’, was that the sun’s activity had more to do with global warming than levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
The Great Global Warming Swindle: Response Richard Betts | 15th March 2007 News Climate Change Denial Global Warming Solar Activity Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate Change Climate Change …
Last week, Channel 4 aired a documentary by controversial film-maker Martin Durkin. Entitled 'The Great Global Warming Swindle', the film suggested that a combination of factors has led us to mistakenly believe that our emissions of carbon dioxide are causing the planet to warm, and that in fact, natural cycles, solar activity and disaffected radicals were to blame.
Ecologist response to Channel 4's Great 'Global Warming Swindle' Mark Anslow | 15th March 2007 News Channel 4 Climate Change Great Global Warming Swindle Solar Insolation Carbon Dioxide Global …
It has spawned a dozen urban legends. It gets praised and reviled by bloggers. And it tastes like carbonated cough syrup. But does Red Bull do you any good? Pat Thomas reports
Behind the label: Red Bull Pat Thomas | 1st March 2007 Ethical Living Red Bull Food Health Green Livng Drink Additives Sugar Risk Food And Health Supplements Food And Farming Health red-bulllg.jpg It …
Unnoticed by most of the media, New Labour has embarked on a roadbuilding scheme just as large as the one the Tories bragged was ‘the biggest since the Romans’. All over the UK, however, ordinary people have noticed, and everyone – from doctors and teachers, to old-style road protestors – are once again saying: enough is enough. Paul Kingsnorth reports
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March 22nd in World Water Day, an UN initiative to draw attention to the dreadful conditions in which many millions of the world's citizens draw their water. Maggie King reports
Water, water, nowhere... Maggie King | 22nd March 2007 News World Water Day Water Shortage Drought Pollution Agribusiness Farming Drought Fresh Water Green Living Health Society Green Living_38.jpg …
A global capitalist economy obsessed with economic growth has plenty of faults, but chances are it's here to stay. Fortunately, there are other types of organisations out there to prove that the limited liability or plc company is not the only way to get business done.
An atmosphere of cooperation Richard Bickle | 22nd March 2007 News Cooperatives Economics Budget Globlisation Economy UK Economics Charities Politics And Economics Archive_130.jpg A global capitalist …
Thanks in large part to continued activism by nuclear campaign group CND, the government is facing a rebellion of MPs in today’s vote on whether to renew Britain’s nuclear missile system, Trident.
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In the middle of a meeting in Westminster Silvia Wilson stood up, in tears, pleading for a doctor that could diagnose and treat her daughter’s health problem.
Mobile Headache Maggie King | 1st March 2007 News Mobile Phone Masts Silvia Wilson Cell Phone Mobile Phone Mobile Telephone Cell Phone Tower Safe Wireless Initiative Electromagnetic Fields Cancer …
nPower is preparing to fill an Oxfordshire beauty spot and cradle of biodiversity with pulverised fuel ash. The Ecologist Online is running an ongoing investigation into their activities...
Radley Lakes Mark Anslow | 23rd March 2007 News Radley Lakes Oxford Oxfordshire Npower Politics And Economics Society nPower is preparing to fill an Oxfordshire beauty spot and cradle of biodiversity …
Throughout the evening, the CND advocated a course of ‘peace and sanity’. The message is unequivocal: weapons of mass destruction are the tools of war, not keepers of the peace.
China boasts the fastest growing economy in the world. But how to calculate this development’s impact on natural resources, on public health and the environment? Pan Yue sets out the case for green GDP accounting
Taking account of China’s growth Pan Yue | 29th March 2007 News China GDP Economic Growth China Global Warming Globalisation Carbon Dioxide Climate Change Climate Change Politics And Economics …
HSBC, the UK's largest bank, is helping the Malaysian logging giant Samling list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, despite HSBC's claim to be the "first green bank".
HSBC: 'Green Bank' Aids Logging Giant 6th March 2007 News Deforestation HSBC Samling FSC Forestry Stewardship Council Malaysia Forests Conservation Globalisation Politics And Economics inthenews.jpg …
Our love affair with convenience culture extends to a reliance on convenience ‘cures’ for minor complaints. In the first article of a new series, the Ecologist’s Health Editor Pat Thomas says that self-medication isn’t the same as self-help
Suppression isn't cure Pat Thomas | 1st March 2007 Ethical Living Health Cure Pharmaceuticals Medicine Doctors Alternative Medicine Holistic Medicine Pharmaceuticals Health Science And Technology …
The Environment Agency (EA) is within weeks of letting Monsanto escape its liability for dumping thousands of tonnes of cancer-causing chemicals – including all the ingredients of the DDT defoliant Agent Orange – in two quarries in Wales.
EXLUSIVE: How the Environment Agency is gagging one eyewitness to what is potentially one of the UK's biggest environmental crimes Jon Hughes Pat Thomas | 22nd March 2007 News Monsanto Health …
Environmentalists held their breath in expectation of Gordon Brown's 'green' budget. Was it worth the wait? Miriam Kennet, a director of the Green Economics Institute, looks at where the Chancellor went awry...
How 'green' was Gordon? Miriam Kennet | 22nd March 2007 Comment Economics Budget Gordon Brown Green Climate Change UK Economics Free Trade Climate Change Politics And Economics Archive_47.jpg …
'A common price for carbon' has become the soundbite of the forward-looking 'green' politician. It pleases everyone, not least business, which can plan ahead by looking at the carbon 'market'. But is it the best way to proceed?
Fairer Distribution of Common Resources: the pros and cons of carbon trading James Robertson | 22nd March 2007 News Budget Economics Citizen Income Taxation Carbon Trading UK Economics Politics And …