Europe must reduce its oil demand by over half within the next forty years to tackle climate change and address growing difficulties in securing access to fossil fuels, an EU consultative body argued last week (9 January).
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EurActiv on 13th Jan 2009 (via euractiv.com)
On April 1st, take aim at your local Fossil Fool We are living through both alarming and amazing times: financial systems are creaking, climate change is being felt around the world, and the peak in fossil fuels fast approaches. Cracks are widening daily throughout the fossil fuel empire, and change is coming whether we like it or not.
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RisingTide on 14th Oct 2008 (via risingtide.org.uk)
Barack Obama will make a renewed push to spur the US Senate into action on climate change, saying the BP oil spill underlines the urgency for the country to lessen its dependence on fossil fuels
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FT on 22nd Jun 2010 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Stunning images of climate change protests from North and South America, Europe and Asia make up the core of this month's contributions. It's been a busy time for reminding governments what they should already know by now - that we have to wean ourselves of climate-wrecking fossil fuels as soon as possible, and the business as usual is not an option. Oh, and in case your wondering about ...
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Greenpeace on 1st May 2009 (via greenpeace.org.uk)
Yesterday was Fossil Fools day - when a small clique of climate change deniers gather at Parliament to decry logical and the scientific method. Yet the ever thinning ranks of even vaguely credible people associated with climate denial has finally jumped the shark with an article that once and for all lays bare the real thinking behind climate denial; not science but pure naked ideology.
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LiberalConspiracy on 28th Oct 2010 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
To dismiss the implications of climate change based on an error about the rate at which Himalayan glaciers are melting is an act of astonishing intellectual legerdemain. Yet this is what some doubters of climate change are claiming. But the reality is that our understanding of climate change is based on
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TimWorstall on 27th Mar 2010 (via timworstall.com)
A few faked email stats and suddenly the entire edifice of climate change is in the balance. There's no doubt that the revelation of less than pure scientific method being used by the prominent climate change boffins at the University of East Anglia has given a new lease of life to the climate change deniers, or climo-sceptics. But, as we get ready to see our leaders parading their concern at the ...
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PoliticsEtc on 6th Dec 2009 (via sgspolitics.blogspot.com)
The Guardian has one of its climate change scare scoops for us all to panic about today. Their good friend and climate change guru, Professor Robert Watson has held court and it is clear from what he says that we are all doomed. The UK should take active steps to prepare for dangerous climate change of perhaps 4C according to one of the government's chief scientific advisers. In policy areas
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CllrTonySharp on 7th Aug 2008 (via feeds.feedburner.com)
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform has launched a section to "help create the conditions for UK business success through key energy and climate change policies". Lord Mandelson has set up an "energy and climate change unit" to lobby Ed Miliband's new energy and climate change department on behalf of business. Energy insiders said the move was further evidence of the pee...
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Guardian on 26th Apr 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)