There is now less than a month until the United States will elect their next President. In the past 8 years President Bush has gone out of his way to reject, suppress, and generally ignore action on climate change issues. During Bush’s years in office however, climate change has slowly risen on the national and [...]
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Climate Camp 2008
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Uncategorized, tagged CCS, Climate Camp, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Kingsnorth, Protest on 2 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This coming week, a few thousand people will be setting up the third annual Climate Camp, at Kingsnorth in Kent, to protest against the building of a new coal-fired power station in the near future.
The Climate Camp has already been set up in a field near Kingsnorth power station, and will be there all week, [...]
More Biofuels Madness and the Pathetic G8
Posted in Climate Change, biofuels, tagged biofuels, Climate Change, G8, Global Warming, Gordon Brown on 13 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s look at what happened in the last week or so.
On 4th July, The Guardian obtained an internal report from the World Bank estimating that biofuels have caused world food prices to rise by 75% (it seems I was far too optimistic on that previously).
On 5th July Gordon Brown gave an interview to The Guardian, [...]
A taste of things to come
Posted in Climate Change, EU, biofuels, tagged biofuels, Climate Change, Food prices, Global Warming, Gordon Brown on 23 April, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As world food prices escalate and the connection to biofuel generation is made with increasing frequency in the media, there is a growing sense of ‘I told you so’ with regard to the disaster of biofuels. But it isn’t quite that simple.
Yes, food prices are going up at a huge rate. Yes, demand for biofuel [...]
