The Channel 4 documentary, ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’, put forward the idea that carbon dioxide did not in fact cause global warming, but instead was a product of global warming. It also suggested that the Earth frequently enters cold and warm periods of climate, and that the current warming was simply a natural phenomenon. We put these arguments to Stephan Harrison, an Associate Professor in Quarternary Science at Exeter University and a Senior Research Associate at Oxford University…
… The Great Global Warming Swindle - Stepham Harrison … | 15th March 2004 News Climate Change Global Warming Carbon Dioxide Ice Ages Interglacial Channel 4 Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate Change Climate Change …
It takes no more than a gentle nudge to push a man over the edge of a cliff, but it is almost impossible to haul him back before he hits the ground. Given that we show no sign of putting a stop to global warming, Peter Bunyard takes a look at what the future might hold
… Peter Bunyard | 1st February 2004 News Global Warming Rainfall The Gulf Stream … Climate Change Floods Rising Temperatures Global Warming Carbon Dioxide Ozone Layer Sea … that we show no sign of putting a stop to global warming, Peter Bunyard takes a look at …
In the past 50 years the global economy has grown by over 500 per cent... the richest fifth of the world now earn 86 per cent of global income… the poorest fifth earn just 1.3 per cent… life expectancy in the world’s most ‘developed’ countries is 79 years… in the least ‘developed’ it is still just 42… we consume 22 million tonnes of oil every day… chop down 1 per cent of the world’s forests every year… and have killed 90 per cent of the world’s big fish. Has the time come to give up on globalisation?
… Globalisation use it or lose it? George Helena | 1st September 2004 Comment Global Economy Globalisation Localisation Globalisation …
We are all aware that the weather is never quite the same from one year to the next. That is all part of the natural variability of climate. It is the task of climatologists to tease out any change to climate, such as global warming, from all that variability.
… | 1st February 2004 Other Climatologists Global Warming Fossil Fuel Goverment Global Warming Climate Change Archive_57.jpg … to tease out any change to climate, such as global warming, from all that variability. One …
Repulsing the logging invasion of Tasmania’s wet eucalypt forest by Paul Kingsnorth
… Global Rescue Paul Kingsnorth | 1st December … with banners. ‘Here it is,’ says Lee. ‘The Global Rescue Station. People camped up there … We really got the world’s attention.’ The ‘Global Rescue Station’ is a treehouse built by …
As the supermarket doors glide open there they are – cosmetically perfect, irresistibly firm, brilliantly coloured fruit and vegetables. And yet, when you get them home, they taste of nothing. Is it the way you cooked them, or have you just selected badly? No, you’ve been conned.
… Permanent Global Summertime Joanna Blythman | 1st … available all the time; I named it ‘permanent global summertime’ (PGST). Supermarkets’ … defy local, even European, seasons and source globally at the drop of a hat. Once unwrapped …
If you want evidence that global warming is happening, you need only look to China. Unseen by the rest of the world, much of the north of the country is turning into a land of droughts, dust storms and deserted villages.
… 2004 News Duolun Droughts Dust Storms China Global Warming Drought Climate Change … Archive_119.jpg If you want evidence that global warming is happening, you need only … scientists have repeated the mantra that global warming means more droughts as well as …
How the Bush regime is planning to use nuclear powered spacecraft and weapons to secure US control of outer space.
… the dispersal of plutonium from Snap-9A to a global increase in the incidence of lung … had probably been vapourised and dispersed globally.’ There were 110 pounds of highly … to Mars. Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear …
The biggest and most indiscriminate killers of wildlife on the planet, commercial fishing fleets have brought us to the edge of a maritime ecological disaster, with fish stocks facing extinction all around the world.
… direction. Unforgivably, the discovery that global catches were declining was not made by … (FAO), the outfit responsible for global catch figures, but by Daniel Pauly and … in Nature , Pauly and Watson put the FAO’s global catch figures through the wringer and …
The privatisation of global water services means billion-dollar profits for corporations and pollution, disconnection and soaring prices for consumers
… The privatisation of global water services means billion-dollar … declining supplies, the UN has forecast that global per capita water availability could … seeking access to the vast and still untapped global markets that remain public entities. In …
Since colonising Tibet in 1959, China has ripped out virgin forests, dug up minerals and metals, and dumped nuclear waste with little regard for the fragile ecology of the Tibetan plateau.
… Chinese Communist Party has interpreted as global approval for its quest for wealth and … inconsequential regional issue; it has a huge global significance warranting international … – which in some cases can contribute more to global warming than emissions from coal-fired …
‘If we could think locally, we would take far better care of things than we do now. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, "What will this do for our community?" tends toward the right answer for the world.’ Wendell Berry
… local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, "What will … local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, “What will …
During the past decade or so, international trade agreements have been dramatically expanded to encompass affairs that had always previously been strictly matters of domestic concern.
… Strategic partnerships developed between the global water companies and international … two most notable of these partnerships, the Global Water Partnership and the World Water …
Monsanto’s global website says: ‘Imagine innovative agriculture that creates "incredible" things today.’ Actually, I think most of us are more interested in ‘credible’ things when it comes to agriculture. Like food that people can trust is safe. And crops that meet the needs of the farmers that grow them. The Monsanto slogan used to be ‘food, health, hope’. As if this wasn’t absurd enough, it has now been changed to ‘Imagine™’. John Lennon must be turning in his grave.
… And Farming Politics And Economics Monsanto’s global website says: ‘Imagine innovative …
The seabirds of Shetland and Orkney are in ‘deep trouble’, according to the RSPB. Could this be the first real indicator that our lives are about to change quickly and dramatically as a result of climate change?
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We were being given 20 to 21 pence a kilo, they were selling them in the stores at twice that, and we needed 32 pence to break even. The prices would change by the day, and then they’d take 60 to 90 days to pay you.
… of things, I suppose, that finished us: the global economy, dominant supermarkets and the …
Deep in the Amazon rainforest, renegade logging firms are stealing the land of impoverished communities and stripping it of the trees on which the whole world depends. Greg Nasmyth boards a 700-tonne icebreaker to join a group of Greenpeace activists in their bid to stop them.
… of choice is the gun, Greenpeace’s is the global positioning system (GPS): they carry … economy. The West needs to recognise the global significance of the Amazon rainforest in maintaining global climate and biodiversity. It needs to …
In February a report by George W Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) suggested that fast food workers might in the future be classified as manufacturing workers. A CEA report asked: ‘When a fast-food restaurant sells a hamburger, for example, is it providing a “service”, or is it combining inputs to “manufacture’ a product?’
… innovation responsible for Ronald McDonald’s global conquest. The fast-food industry began …
The ongoing battle between US tree-sitters and North America’s big logging firms pitches some of the world’s most determined activists against some of its most ruthless corporations. It is a battle that the tree-sitters simply must not lose.
… all over the world. One estimate says that, globally, two and a half acres of forest are … George Draffan) is Strangely like War: the global assault on forests (Chelsea Green …
‘He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.’ Friedrich Nietzsche
… towards self-limiting cultural niches. At a global level, adversarialism assumes a more … polarisations on cultural issues, both globally and in national life. At the same …
The most successful celebrity endorsement ever, Prunella Scales’ TV ads have added more than £2.2 billion to Tesco’s profts. And yet she says she really cares about the environment.
… might have something to with supermarket global sourcing policies? You say you have no …