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Tuesday April 16, 2024
Andy Rowell

  • February 15, 2022

    The climate mirage

    Just three months ago, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre addressed the UN Climate conference in Glasgow, COP26, telling delegates that the...

  • August 28, 2021

    Code red

    Due to our climate emergency, we are leaving an increasingly hostile climate to our children and grand-children.Last week, UNICEF reported how one...

  • January 18, 2021

    Climate disaster

    Many people are rightly preoccupied by the unfolding political events in Washington with Donald Trump becoming the first ever President to be...

  • July 29, 2020

    Climate warning

    The year 2020 is continuing to bring deeply worrying climate news from both the Arctic and the Antarctic. First the Arctic, where our climate...

  • September 12, 2019

    Climate denial

    For many of us who have been writing and campaigning on climate change and against the oil industry for years, it is easy to forget what a momentous...

  • July 15, 2019

    Mass extinction

    Next year, the British government will host the UN Climate talks in London, known as COP26, which are the most important climate talks since Paris...

  • August 30, 2018

    Apocalyptic threat

    A letter from the civil society campaign to Brown sent in April read: “In September, as you welcome the world to San Francisco for the Global...

  • August 15, 2018

    A climate for denial

    The disconnect could not be greater. As wild-fires raged across the US last week, inflamed by climate change, Trump officials attended the America...

  • August 10, 2018

    The new normal

    As I write, Californian firefighters are tackling the largest wildfire in the state’s history, which is larger than the city of New York and...

  • January 11, 2018

    Climate denial

    Many East Coasters returned to work in bitter cold conditions after the second-coldest New Year on record.The low temperatures over the festive...

  • May 22, 2017

    Going green

    “Fossil fuels have lost”, argues Eddie O’Connor, chief executive of Irelands’s Mainstream Renewable Power company, before...

  • May 26, 2016

    Warming up

    Nearly every week a new record is being broken on climate. So far this year we have had warnings that the Great Barrier reef is ‘dying on our...

  • April 25, 2016

    Grim drumbeat

    History is made in New York when countries formally signed the Paris climate agreement, which was initially approved in December last year. The...

  • April 21, 2016

    The oil age

    As the saying goes: the stone age did not end due to the lack of stones and the oil age will not end due to lack of oil. It will end due to climate...