The Durban conference on climate change is likely to be even more useless than its predecessors - James Turley argues it is time to serve notice on capital's stewardship of the environment The first casualty of war, they say, is the truth. The first casualties of an international conference of governments on climate change, on the ...
James Turley looks at the mixed messages from the media about the Copenhagen demonstrations As is the norm for any major gathering of world leaders, the COP-15 talks in Copenhagen over the global warming crisis have been accompanied by a whole series of protests. First, there were the protests outside Denmark, which saw thousands marching at events ...
On Saturday December 5, around 50,000 activists took part in the London ‘blue wave’ demonstration against climate change. Ben Lewis was there Organised by the Stop Climate Chaos campaign, the protest was conceived as a way of building up pressure on the great and the good assembled for the UN climate summit in Copenhagen. The event ...
Despite an SP and SWP presence, no one proposed the necessary solution to global warming, writes Simon Wells The Campaign Against Climate Change held its annual demonstration on a bitterly cold afternoon last Saturday, coinciding with the latest United Nations negotiations being held in Poznan, Poland, to agree a post-Kyoto deal. Starting from Grosvenor Square, the demonstration ...
Climate change and global warming can no longer be ignored or downplayed. The question nowadays is not whether there is an ecological crisis; it is how it is to be combated. As of yet, the most influential answers have come under a ‘green’ heading, with ‘green’ ideas being influential not only in terms of established politics ...
The furore over The great global warming swindle is about more than climate change denial, argues James Turley After over a year of wrangling, the Office for Communications (Ofcom) media watchdog has found Channel 4 in breach of various sections of the broadcasting code, over the documentary The great global warming swindle. The programme triggered a serious ...