March 31st, 2010 | Climate Change, Events, International Action
December 20th, 2009 | Climate Change, Locals Taking Action
It’s Up to Us Now
Yeast acts in the same way as humans, it seems. If you take yeasts and give them energy in the form of sugar, they gobble up the energy as fast as they can, reproduce wildly out of control and then wipe themselves out in their own waste products. Over the …
December 19th, 2009 | Climate Change, International Action
Four Degrees
It looks like Copenhagen has been a failure. In the end the politicians will have come up with a fudge they can be positive about, and we shall have to work with that; but it seems that whilst everyone agreed that two degrees should be the target, their actions (or …
December 17th, 2009 | Climate Change
Three Degrees
Three degrees of warming will bring us to the climate last known in the Pliocene era three million years ago. Life goes on, but not as we know it.
Warmer water in the Indian Ocean means rain falls uselessly on the sea instead of the land. In the tropics, major floods …
December 16th, 2009 | Climate Change, Events, International Action, Locals Taking Action
An Alternative Way Forward?
December 14th, 2009 | Climate Change, Events, International Action
Stop Emission Increases Now for a 50:50 chance of saving the Maldives
During this week we’ll be putting the Copenhagen discussions into a bit of a context by covering each day what an extra degree of warming might mean for the planet. We start today – and we’re already nearly at 1 degree.
ONE DEGREE
Since the 1850s the industrial developments we …
December 14th, 2009 | Climate Change, International Action
A Message from our Children to Copenhagen
December 7th, 2009 | Climate Change, Events, Government Action
After the Wave, the Talking Starts
Some of us joined the Wave in London on Saturday. Between forty and fifty thousand ordinary folk surrounded Westminster in a good-tempered demonstration, supported by video waves from all over the world. You can even see Stretton Climate Care’s rather self-conscious contribution by putting ‘Stretton’ in the search …
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