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Stomach bugs blamed on climate change
Philipines Health Secretary Francisco Duque said today that global warming was part of the cause of a recent spate of diseases including an outbreak of gastroenteritis that has infected more than 2,000...
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Half a century of prediction
As climate negotiators thrash it out in Poznan this week, it’s worth noting that their parents’ generation were already predicting a warming planet, as this great article from 1959 testifies. Charles...
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Money or the climate?
With heads of states still raw from Davos, the globe’s economic woes were high on the agenda at the Sustainable development Summit in Delhi today. The theme, “Towards Copenhagen: an equitable and...
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Will we find a solution to climate change in time?
This is a post in response to some questions raised by Mark Haines: I am curious as to what your thoughts are regarding solutions to the climate crisis. Do you think that the solutions that are being...
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Imagine a world…
Just suppose, if you will, that the world does not stop emitting carbon in the next 10 years. That, in fact, global emissions continue to rise – the reductions made by rich countries more than written...
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Don’t blame the weather when people die from climate change
The majority of the deaths occurring now and in the future “due to climate change” are as much to do with political, social, technological and economic failings, as meteorological alteration. This is a...
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Potential climate solutions, but a lack of urgency
The Royal Society today gave us permission to consider maybe using geoengineering solutions at some point in the future in “an emergency”. The press conference, in the glorious Carlton Place buildings,...
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The wrong type of snow
“By mid-September, we would wake up with completely frozen Tashi Tundop moustaches,” says Tashi Tundop, a 76-year-old farmer who was born in the house he still shares with his wife and six other family...
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Chacaltaya: video from a former ski resort
This is what the world’s highest ski resort looks like after global warming takes its toll. (Apologies for my ugly screwed-up face!)
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Flight of the condors
Colca Canyon: The world’s deepest canyon, surrounded by volcanic peaks higher than 6000 metres, plunges more than twice as deep as Arizona’s Grand Canyon, at 4160 metres. Colca Canyon at dawn We reach...
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