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"On Saturday 8th October Cartmel Quakers held a silent prayer vigil in Grange-over-Sands as part of the national Climate Coalition ‘S...

Well, I've held on to this prestigious award for long enough, and it's time to pass on the heavy mantle of responsibility to someo...

...sleek and black and with fin-like things... So it's excusable really that the Japanese whalers should have rammed the Ady Gil, knocki...

As Churchill might have said: "This is not the end. It is not the beginning of the end. It is not even the beginning of the beginning....

There's bit of correspondence in Nature Geoscience about air capture, specifically some promotion from RPJr which seems to think that a...

I'm all for a little bit of guerrilla gardening and reclaiming some small part of the area currently devoted to the demands of the auto...

You know how that old "reduce, reuse, recycle" slogan of the environmental movement is embarrassingly inconvenient for conventiona...

As I noted some time ago (but only posted just now...), the JGovt has decided that we don't burn enough oil in this country, and decide...

[I originally wrote this post this post back in January, when the news came out. But somehow it didn't get posted...] Japan is worried t...

the energy use each of us must stick to if we’re to keep the planet hospitable: precisely 2,000 watts. Well I just looked at our fuel bills....

Just thought I'd take the opportunity for that blog title, since there are unlikely to be many more chances. "The government says i...

Biofuels have been getting a lot of bad press recently - lots of it justified I'm sure (many schemes seem to have at best a marginal net...

A small prize (OK, absolutely nothing except your e-immortality assured in a blog comment) for anyone who can identify the subject of that s...

No, not a tale of turkey twizzlers , but dolphin meat in Japan. A couple of local politicians have dared to point out the bleeding obvious, ...

Some attendees at the recent EGU meeting spent an evening getting worked up over the environmental cost of the event. Here's a report of...

This film has been fairly popular in Japan, it seems - at least, our local video rental has been pushing it - so we succumbed to their temp...

Cheatneutral.com It's what climate scientists the world over have been waiting for :-) (Hat tip: Kevin Vranes )

Some more drivel in the Indescribablyoverhyped , which starts off with "A combination of global warming and the El Niño weather system ...

Another year, another Blue Planet Prize . The first speaker, Dr. Akira Miyawaki, is an academic ecologist who developed and implemented meth...