The US position in the Cancún climate change conference is that “nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.” Can it deliver its own side of this bargain?
I am no longer a climate change sceptic
Climate change sceptics should watch Michel Jarraud talk about the Russian heat wave of 2010. The Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization told the Cancun climate conference that the temperatures were “off the scale.”
Do we really love the Kyoto Protocol?
Is the Kyoto Protocol as important as NGO campaigners claim? Why not concentrate efforts on improving the Copenhagen Accord? The UN climate change conference in Cancún must resolve its divisions over the shape of a long term agreement.
No poetry in ocean acidification
Scientific reports seem to be better at communicating the threat of ocean acidification than environmental NGOs. No wonder UN negotiations on emissions reductions take no notice of the subject.
Climate sceptics should try economics
One moment governments are spending their way out of recession; the next moment they’re imposing austerity cuts of historic proportions. The science of economics is in a far bigger mess than climate science.
Obama BP tirade opens door to climate reparations
President Obama may be winning votes by piling up the oil spill compensation costs for BP. But is he creating a precedent for environmental damages that climate change activists can exploit?
Africa tackles soccer and climate change
Nigeria, Cameroon, Côte-d’Ivoire, Ghana and South Africa are sub-Saharan Africa’s representatives in the World Cup finals. They also have in common the threat of flooding by rising tides.
Online journalism let down by ad agencies
Access to the Times Online is no longer free, a significant setback for the founding principles of the internet. Stuck in its 20th century attitudes, online newspaper advertising is a likely culprit.
Niger food crisis and climate change
We should not blame climate change for the current food security crisis in the West African Sahel region. But a study of the circumstances in Niger raises awkward questions.
Another good crisis goes to waste
The euro currency rescue forced dramatic U-turns from Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Trichet, with President Obama in the background. Why did global poverty campaigners have nothing to say?