Blog

Read the latest insights and analysis from the experts at Oil Change International.

Now Europe’s Nuclear Reactors Fall Victim of the Heat

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?

As Europe Suffers its “Hottest Day”, Sweden’s Tallest Mountain Melts

The record hot temperatures have melted Sweden’s highest peak.

“Fossil fuel industry is guilty of crimes against humanity”

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.

Britain’s Ministry of Silly Walks Jumps Off a Climate Cliff

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.

As More Die in the Global Heatwave, Canada Invests in Climate Disaster

If Justin Trudeau didn’t know before. He does now. If Canadian’s Prime Minster could blame ignorance before, he can't now.

As Japan Begins Olympic Countdown, it Swelters in 41.1 Degrees Heat

Tomorrow marks the two-year countdown to the opening of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. But Japanese officials are not celebrating. They are seriously concerned. The country – like many parts of the world - is in the middle of an intense brutal heat-wave.

As the US Wakes up to Climate Change, the Media Lags Behind

As more and more Americans link extreme weather to climate change, its time the media did so too

Is Separating Families at US Border the Beginning of “Climate Apartheid”?

Trump is exacerbating climate change, which in turn is fuelling more climate refugees to leave their homes and seek sanctuary.

Thirty Years on: How Jim Hansen was Proved Right On Climate Change

It is nearly thirty years to the day that one of the world’s leading climate scientists, Dr James Hansen told a panel of the US senate that the “greenhouse effect was here”.