We have water supply crisis
The world is running out of fresh water
4th March 2024
China is still the biggest emitter
Despite progress on green energies the amount of CO2 that China emits is still rising
22nd February 2024
We are almost at 1.5 deg C above the pre-industrial age
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67861954
6th January 2024
Money matters
George Monbiot laments the effects of the Tory links with the fossil fuel industry
29th March 2023
Building infrastructure alone will not halt global warming
George Monbiot lists the perils of concentrating solely on changes in infrastructure
1st September 2021
Ecocide
Lawyers consider a new international crime of destroying the environment
22nd June 2021
Fires are invading new eco-systems
Hitherto naturally generated fires have been restricted to certain eco-sytems, but this is now changing
19th February 2021
New Ideas for energy storage
Liquefying air offers hope as a means of energy storage
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19785689
2nd October 2020
The Arctic winter freeze is late
It’s late October and Arctic ice has yet to form
23rd October 2020
Greenland’s Ice Loss
The rate of ice loss in Greenland is breaking all records
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53849695
20th August 2020
The Arctic Heatwave
Arctic ice is melting faster than ever
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/25/arctic-heatwave-38c-siberia-science
21st July 2020
The heat is coming!
A billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years
8th May 2020
Oceans are loosing oxygen at an unprecedented rate
Dead zones are proliferating and hundreds more areas are oxygen depleted
7th December 2019
Paris agreement pledges are not being met
Progress towards three quarters of the commitments made is totally inadequate according to a report by the Universal Ecology Fund
18th November 2019
Extreme sea levels will hit once a year by 2050
The IPCC have updated their forecasts on sea level rises. Drawing from more accurate data from Greenland, these forecasts are higher than previous estimates.
1st October 2019
The IPCC report on land use and climate change shies away from the big issues
George Monbiot calls the report a missed opportunity
9th August 2019
Impact of global heating poses a threat to civilisation
The IPCC report on land use and climate change.
https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2019/08/4.-SPM_Approved_Microsite_FINAL.pdf
9th August 2019
More evidence of melting ice and rising sea levels
The ice over Greenland is melting faster than ever
22nd January 2019
Climate change: Where we are in seven charts
Splendid if depressing analysis of the onward march of climate change
2nd December 2018
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46384067
4 Things you can do to fight climate change
Christiana Figures on what we all need to do to make our contribution to stopping climate change
8th November 2018
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06n8zzc
Last chance to cut off the effects of climate change at 1.5 deg C
Warning from Intergovernmental Panel on climate change
13th October 2018
http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_spm_final.pdf
If you want to save the world veganism isn’t the answer
Isabella Tree argues that organic farming , including pasture fed beef cattle, is the key to sustainable living
25th August 2018
Sweltering Cities
A look forward to to how humans will cope with increasing temperatures
17th August
Churches convert to renewable power and urge other to follow
The bishop of Salisbury says ‘ Climate Change is the biggest moral issue of our time’
3rd August 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/03/5500-uk-churches-switch-to-renewable-energy
Steep global increase in meat eating will devastate the environment
Per capita meat consumption has doubled in the past 50 years
20 July 2018
2017 was the hottest ever without an El Niño
53.5 deg C was recorded in Pakistan in May a world record for that month. Sea levels rose 7.2 cm above the 1993 average – the highest yest
2nd August 2018
Avoiding meat and dairy products is the single biggest way to reduce your impact on Earth
It also helps preserve wild nature
19 June 2018