Facing the heat: Daily Mail and Sunday Times climate journalism
The Daily Mail and Sunday Times are at the centre of a row over the accuracy of their climate reporting. They have been accused of “making things up”.
Climate Change
Turn the lights down low: Coventry council finds novel ways to cut carbon
Coventry council announced it will install dimmer switches on all 28,000 of the city’s street lights in a bid to cut carbon emissions and combat light pollution
There’s no chaos like snow chaos: Busting the myth that snow disproves climate change
Recent studies show how record high temperatures are far outpacing record low temperatures across the US, proving recent cold weather is not global cooling.
Sunday Times publish pseudo-science as it were fact – their “scientists” have links to big oil
Today’s Sunday Rimes runs pseudo-science as if it were real science – their “scientists”, however, have links to the Exxon-funded “Heartland Inst.” lobby group.
The climate movement at a crossroads
This is a defining moment for the British climate movement. Copenhagen has proved a watershed: its failures have thrown campaigners into a state of profound self-doubt and re-evaluation. Combined with the revival of climate scepticism – the fallout from Climategatetest
Clegg: Refurbishing ports is “shot in the arm” for green recovery
Nick Clegg spoke exclusively to Left Foot Forward today. He described the Liberal Democrats’ new wind farm pledge as a “shot in the arm” for a green recovery.
Robin Hood Tax campaign goes live
A campaign for a Financial Transactions Tax (a “Robin Hood tax”) of 0.05% is launched today. No other measure would raise so much money or do so little harm.
“Climategate”: a manufactured controversy
Recent headlines about “climategate” were predictable enough – but the “revelations” do not undermine the overwhelming evidence that climate change is manmade.
Osborne’s climate gaffe
George Osborne this morning claimed that Lord Stern would “advise” the Conservative party. But Lord Stern was quick to deny any advisory role for a political party.
World on course for 3.5-degree rise
A majority of the world’s nations yesterday signed up to the Copenhagen Accord and filed plans for emissions reductions, scraping over the Jan 31st UN deadline.