The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee has just begun to take oral evidence from a very select group of witnesses, writes Paul Mobbs in this open letter. Sadly its choices betray a systematic bias to industry and establishment figures - while community groups are entirely excluded.
… which the Royal Society and other subsequent reviews, due to prematurity or through taking … carried out such a study. In my view, what reviews of Government policy have taken place …
A leading member of the climate change-skeptic Global Warming Policy Foundation has resigned from his post in the wake of a Greenpeace investigation that exposed its phoney 'peer review' process. But he insists: 'nothing going on here!'
… about the council's claims to conduct peer reviews of its publications. McKitrick said: …
Investigative reporters working for Greenpeace UK's Energydesk have uncovered a nexus of senior academics willing to accept large sums of money from fossil fuel companies to write reports and newspaper articles published under their own names and university affiliations, without declaring the funding. Lawrence Carter & Maeve McClenaghan spill the beans ...
Climate 'academics for hire' conceal fossil fuel funding Lawrence Carter Maeve McClenaghan Greenpeace Energydesk | 9th December 2015 News Fossil Fuels Climate Change Science UK US ted-cruz-cut.jpg …
President Trump's recent executive order could open an area of America's most precious landscapes bigger than Yellowstone to oil drilling and coal mining, write Lawrence Carter & Joe Sandler Clarke. The 27 monuments 'under review' harbour huge volumes of oil, gas and coal: just what's needed to fuel Trump's vision of fossil fuel-led development - never mind the cost to scenery, wildlife, historic sites and indigenous cultures.
Trump's National Monument order could open 2.7 million acres to oil, gas, coal Lawrence Carter Joe Sandler Clarke Greenpeace Energydesk | 12th May 2017 News USA Fossil Fuels Oil Gas Coal Climate …
Newspaper apologises for article that disputed 'peer-reviewed scientific evidence' that up to 40 per cent of the Amazon rainforest is at risk from climate change
Amazon rainforest claims not bogus admits The Sunday Times The Ecologist | 21st June 2010 News Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Climate Change rainforests.jpg Claims about climate change risks to the …
Claims that nuclear power is a 'low carbon' energy source fall apart under scrutiny, writes Keith Barnham. Far from coming in at six grams of CO2 per unit of electricity for Hinkley C, as the Climate Change Committee believes, the true figure is probably well above 50 grams - breaching the CCC's recommended limit for new sources of power generation beyond 2030.
… estimates were below 13 gCO 2 /kWh. These two reviews of the published literature, often … concern with the Sovacool and Warner-Heath reviews is that among their selected LCAs there are, in both reviews, some analyses that do not include all …
Coal leases on public lands operated by the US Bureau of Land Management are responsible for 40% of US coal production and 14% of total US CO2 emissions, writes Mike Gaworecki - yet their environmental impacts have not been reviewed in 35 years.
BLM sued - no environmental review of coal leasing since 1979 Mike Gaworecki | 8th December 2014 News Climate Change Law USA Coal Fossil Fuels powder-river-trains-cut.jpg Coal leases on public lands …
Sir Nicholas Stern was asked to find out what way of averting climate change was economically feasible. A loaded question that has allowed him to find a perverse solution to a fatal problem.
The Stern Review: Editors Comment Jon Hughes | 1st December 2006 News Climate Change Stern Nicholas Stern Stern Report Global Warming US China Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Comments And Analysis …
Carbon pricing could totally change the way companies operate. Nick Robbins ask if the city is ready to make the leap
The Stern Review: Mitigation Nick Robbins | 31st December 2008 News Carbon Dioxide The City Stern Review Shareholders Comments And Analysis Carbon Dioxide Climate Change Politics And Economics …
Their grasp of science can’t be faulted but William Antholis and Strobe Talbott need to offer solutions too, says Mark Newton
… Warming Mark Newton | 20th October 2011 Reviews Climate Change Politics Kyoto Copenhagen USA China India Brazil Reviews book-jacket.jpg Their grasp of science …
In a hard-hitting new investigation, Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway report on the scientists prepared to distort the truth on the key issues of our time - from tobacco to climate change to coal fired power stations
… of Doubt Phil England | 10th September 2010 Reviews Science Climate Change Tobacco Reviews Science And Technology Greenpeace …
Global weather patterns have always been unpredictable but current changes are being amplified by the impact of people, consumption and pollution. In The New North, Laurence Smith looks at what the next four decades could bring – both for the weather and for us
… Laurence Smith Jeff Holman | 31st March 2011 Reviews Books Reviews Climate Change Polar Region …
The world is warming up. We face ecological, social and economic meltdown, famine, drought, disease and turf wars. For real?
The Stern Review: The Science of Climate Change Anna da Costa | 1st December 2006 News Climate Change Science Stern Review Stern Report Global Warming Climate Science Stern Report UK Climate Change …
David Shukman’s book is both an entertaining collection of a journalist’s tales and the perfect introduction to the environmental challenges facing the world today, says Gervase Poulden
… Gervase Poulden | 29th September 2011 Reviews David Shukman BBC Reviews Books Global Warming Climate Change …
Packing 4.5 billion years of history into 416 pages is a truly Herculean task, but it's one, says Hannah Corr, that Douglas Palmer has managed to do in style
… Discoveries Hannah Corr | 22nd September 2011 Reviews Earth Climate Change Reviews Natural World Biology Species Wildlife …
If you only pick up one green book this year, make it Jeremy Rifkin’s The Third Industrial Revolution. It will change the way you think, says Mark Newton
… and the World Mark Newton | 2nd February 2012 Reviews Fossil Fuels Oil Climate Change … Business Economics Environment Jeremy Rifkin Reviews Books cover.jpg If you only pick up …
With the release of the Climate Change film Chasing Ice on DVD, Susan Clark is surprised to find most of what she was looking for – the science and heart-breaking footage of majestic glaciers seemingly just slipping away – not in the main feature but in the hour-long DVD extras
… DVD Review Susan Clark | 28th September 2013 Reviews Chasing Ice Climate Change Film …
ExxonMobil has been funding high quality science while also funding and supporting climate denial. So should scientists continue to accept money from oil companies and other vested interests? KATHARINE HAYHOE, a climate science professor, discusses her own early ExxonMobil funding and the ethical issues it raises
I was an Exxon-funded climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe | 6th September 2017 News Oil Denial Exxon Climate Change 405218.jpg ExxonMobil has been funding high quality science while also funding and …