Editors' Blog

Welcome to the Green Futures blog.

If climate change didn’t exist, would we have to invent it?

This mischievous thought occurred to me as I was wading through the latest sclerotic surge of climate scepticism – which is fast becoming...

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Martin Wright

Even on Al Jazeera, the old rules still apply…

Just been interviewed on Al Jazeera TV, as part of its coverage of climate issues in the run up to Copenhagen. And it made me realise how...

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Satires and spoofs

 

Dominic Lawson, who’s joined his father Nigel’s crusade against climate science, has penned a blistering review in...

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Travailing hopefully

 

I’m writing this on Eurostar as it races over the flat and featureless plains of northern France (scenery made for...

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Damned if they do and damned if they don't

 

Damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

‘They’ being the likes of Tesco, BAA and E.ON, all members...

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Nano Tech Solution?

 

The scooter lay on its side in the dust when I got there, its front wheel still spinning. The mother was scrambling to...

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Larging it

There’s an elephant in the living room of climate change, and it’s got a trunk the size of a tropical tree.

It’s called...

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The end of the phoney war

Is it all kicking off?

Is this when the phoney war stops, and the panic begins?

Those were the questions that...

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Power-pointless

Ever wondered how we can know so much about climate change, but be so rubbish at tackling it?

Try speaking at an event on the subject...

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The outsider

So we can relax. Al Gore’s not going to ruin it all and run.

His revelation brings an end to months of speculation that he was...

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