Steve Skinner thinks it’s vital to engage with people who hold different views, while Claire Whatley notes an unfortunate advert placement alongside a Greta Thunberg article I can’t disagree with any of the ideas put forward by writers and activists (‘Stop setting things on fire’: nine great ideas to save the planet, 8 October) in... Continue Reading →
Cutting heat loss from houses will be more effective in the long term than subsidising bills, according to analysis . Britain will be plunged into an even worse energy crisis in a year’s time without an immediate plan to improve leaky homes and dramatically reduce demand for gas, ministers have been warned. The UK ranks... Continue Reading →
UK must insulate homes or face a worse energy crisis in 2023, say experts
Long championed by climate activists, the green bank would provide funding to expand clean energy use across the US . Buried on page 667 of the Inflation Reduction Act is a climate policy that has been in the making for more than a decade. The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund provides $27bn in funding for projects... Continue Reading →
‘Transformational’: could America’s new green bank be a climate gamechanger?
Researchers say their prototype produces hydrogen with greater than 99% purity and works in air as dry as 4% relative humidity Donna Lu Researchers have created a solar-powered device that produces hydrogen fuel directly from moisture in the air. According to its inventors, the prototype produces hydrogen with greater than 99% purity and can work... Continue Reading →
Out of thin air: new solar-powered invention creates hydrogen fuel from the atmosphere
Banks’ financing of coal, oil, and gas was higher in 2021 than it was in 2016, the year after the Paris agreement was adopted Around the world, we’re witnessing the impacts of global heating: in the past week, airport runways have melted in the UK, wildfires have torched huge swathes of Europe, and more than... Continue Reading →
Looking for someone to blame for the extreme heat? Try Wall Street
Humanity faces ‘collective suicide’ over climate crisis, warns UN chief
António Guterres issued a dire warning that the global warming limit of 1.5C agreed in the 2015 Paris climate accord was slipping further out of reach as more people around the world are hit by extreme floods, droughts, storms and wildfires. Video Source
Greenhouse gas has undergone rapid acceleration and scientists say it may be due to atmospheric changes . Methane is four times more sensitive to global warming than previously thought, a new study shows. The result helps to explain the rapid growth in methane in recent years and suggests that, if left unchecked, methane related warming... Continue Reading →
Methane much more sensitive to global heating than previously thought – study
Techno-utopianism is popular precisely because it doesn’t challenge the status quo, and lets polluters off the hook In seeking to prevent environmental breakdown, what counts above all is not the new things we do, but the old things we stop doing. Renewable power, for instance, is useful in preventing climate chaos only to the extent... Continue Reading →
We need optimism – but Disneyfied climate predictions are just dangerous
140bn metric tons of planet-heating gases could be unleashed if fossil fuel extraction plans get green light, analysis shows by Nina Lakhani in Colorado and Oliver Milman in New York The fate of the vast quantities of oil and gas lodged under the shale, mud and sandstone of American drilling fields will in large part... Continue Reading →
US fracking boom could tip world to edge of climate disaster
The UN’s annual report on mitigating calamities shows that a radical rethink is needed to protect those who suffer most If the world seems beset by constant disasters, from the pandemic to drought, we only have ourselves to blame. Over the past two decades, we have experienced up to 500 disasters a year as a... Continue Reading →
Global disasters are coming harder and faster. Here’s how we can cut the risks
‘Worst it’s ever been’: a threatened species alarm sounds during the election campaign – and is ignored
Warnings of dramatically escalating extinctions in Australia over the next two decades seem to be falling on deaf ears Gregory Andrews was Australia’s first threatened species commissioner, appointed in 2013 by the then incoming Coalition environment minister Greg Hunt. He recently returned to the country, after serving as high commissioner to Ghana, and was disheartened... Continue Reading →
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