The biggest challenge facing any politician pushing for legislation on climate change is to convince skeptical voters that the bitter medicine is in fact good for them, and they should embrace it. No matter how it is enacted and what it is called, the net effect is likely to be increased costs of fossil fuels,
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EUEnergyPolicyBlog on 27th Mar 2009 (via energypolicyblog.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)
Individuals are less willing to change their lifestyles or spend money to stop climate change according to new research showing attitudes to climate change as the economy slows down.
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Telegraph on 26th Nov 2008 (via telegraph.co.uk)
The UK Climate Projections 2009, released today, will help us plan and prepare for change to our climate in the UK. By acting now, we can limit the severity of climate change in the future. Labour’s approach to tackling climate change centres on protecting the public from immediate risk, preparing for the future, leading international efforts to get a global deal in Copenhagen in December, c...
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LabourParty on 18th Jun 2009 (via labour.org.uk)
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)
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)
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)
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)
In recognition of the important work on climate change conducted by the trade union movement, the UN body dealing with climate change (the UNFCCC) has granted the ITUC the select formal status of being an “official constituency” in the Climate Change process for the ITUC’s...
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Tigmoo on 8th Dec 2008 (via touchstoneblog.org.uk)