"We are the ones in control right now, but once we go past 2 degrees, we see that the Earth system tips over from being a friend to a foe. We totally hand over our fate to an Earth system that starts rolling out of equilibrium."
For the last decade the nuclear industry has been telling us it is the solution to climate change. But if their reactors can’t work in our rapidly warming world, are we just building a whole new generation of expensive white elephants?
The record hot temperatures have melted Sweden’s highest peak.
The energy and climate blogosphere is currently ablaze about an article, published today in the whole of the New York Times magazine, which covers the story of climate change in what it calls the definitive 10-year period from 1979 to 1989.
How many more have to die?
Yet again the Ministers and civil servants in charge of Britain’s climate and energy policy have shown their abject failure to show any concept of climate leadership or even joined up thinking.
