Together we are powerful – that was the message that thousands of people sent to our politicians in London this afternoon – and others were sending the same message in other cities across the UK and across the world this weekend. How many of us were there? I don’t know. I’d guess 20,000-40,000 but maybe…
Category: Climate
Climate plus one
Global temperatures are set to reach 1°C above pre-industrial levels this year (Daily Mail, Independent, BBC) and world leaders are going to Paris in a few weeks time to sort it out. Today the RSPB released an important report and some very interesting polling information. Let’s deal with the polling first. The polling suggests that…
An unfavourable climate for driven grouse shooting
If you had a rainforest, and slashed and burned it, you’d be putting a lot of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, just as surely as if your nation ran a lot of gas-guzzling cars. Natural ecosystems often act as carbon stores which sequester greenhouse gases – forests are the obvious ones but peatlands are also…
Ten reasons to take notice of the Pope’s encyclical on climate change
Isn’t ‘encyclical’ a nice word? The Pope has published his thoughts on climate change and they are well worth reading in full. But here is a good summary (taken from Time magazine). Climate change is real and it’s getting worse Human beings are a major contributor to climate change Climate change disproportionately affects the poor…
What’s the time? #timetoact
I was at the climate march in London on Saturday. It was fun like all marches are. I saw a few friends – which was good too. Here are some more photographs. What’s the time? Time to change!
People’s Climate March – London 21 September 2014
Emma Thompson leads off the People’s Climate March in London on Sunday afternoon. Vivienne Westwood and Peter Gabriel also attended. There are reports of 40,000 people joining the march but it felt like a smaller event than The Wave five years ago to me. There wasn’t a very obvious NGO presence – the occasional Panda…
Sunday book review – Birds and Climate Change by James Pearce-Higgins and Rhys Green
This is not an easy book to read, because it is quite technical, and unavoidably so, but it is an important one. The science is well-explained and if you want to understand how climate change is already affecting birds, and how it will in future, as well as how scientists study these matters, then it…
Birds and climate change in the USA
This Sunday will see a series of marches and rallies around the world to highlight the impacts of climate change ahead of a meeting of world ‘leaders’ in New York. I’ll be at the march in London on Sunday so maybe we’ll meet there? Last week National Audubon published an analysis of the potential fate…
Climate change is real – get used to it!
If you were getting poorer and poorer, but last year you got poorer a bit more slowly than in previous years – would you be happy? The climate is warming – the 2000s were warmer than the 1990s (but not as much warmer as the 1990s were than the 1980s). This is the link to…
Guest blog – Climate action: Never let a good crisis go to waste by Nick Molho
Nick has been with WWF-UK since 2010 and heads up their climate change and energy policy work. Prior to joining WWF, Nick spent 6 years with city law firm CMS Cameron McKenna, working as an energy solicitor on a wide range of energy projects and climate change related issues. Nick has a First Class English Law…