My optimism of 24th November was short-lived. The Doha climate conference (COP18), as I suspected deep-down, was a failure on par with the series of conferences to which it belongs. Something is seriously wrong when 16000 people from 194 countries… Read More »Oiling our Future. Why Doha failed.
With the Doha climate conference under way, Nature’s edition for 29th November devoted a special section to climate-related topics, but Science for 30th November was business as usual (does this reflect a US – UK divide?). Nature provides an editorialwhich… Read More »More on ice and weather and climate and the world we are headed to.
It is possible, just possible that we are at a tipping point in our attitudes to climate change. Several events in recent days conspire to bring the global community, and particularly those of us in developed countries, to our senses. … Read More »Are we at a tipping point in attitudes on climate change? Just possibly.