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One year on and its not looking so good for Obama. How the political land-scape can change in a year.. The Democrats are in deep political shock this morning as a truck-driving lawyer, Scott Brown took the prized seat of...

For those of you who have not seen the film the Age of Stupid, Pete Postlethwaite, puts in a great performance as a despairing  archivist wondering how we allowed the world to be ravaged by climate change. You could imagine...

[caption id="attachment_4278" align="alignleft" width="210" caption="Cartoon by Nick Anderson"][/caption] As a writer what I find interesting is the corruption of the language and the evidence by the sceptics. Yesterday I posted a blog that was based on Rolling Stone’s list of...

As promised from yesterday, here are the top dozen Climate Killers from Rolling Stones list. According to the magazine, “the polluters and deniers are aiding Big Oil and Big Coal's campaign to block progress on global warming”. I am sure...

The oil industry is built on a series of myths. It has always prided itself on an image that against the odds it has always prevailed – its teams of geologists and explorers have crossed the globe looking for deposits...

Slowly there is some political progress as we edge towards Copenhagen. Some sixty five world leaders will attend the Copenhagen climate talks, although whether Obama actually attends is still anyone’s guess. Moreover over the last fortnight, three big countries have...

Increasingly it looks like Barack Obama will make only one trip to Scandinavia next month – and that is not going to be to Copenhagen and the climate talks. Instead he will be going to Oslo to pick up his...

All the news reports this morning are that a deal at Copenhagen is dead. Barack Obama has said that we had run out of time to secure a deal in December. This will please the corporate lobbyists no end.  The...

Critics of the oil industry’s relentless expansion into the Canadian tar sands have been pointing out for a while something that they thought was obvious: the multi-billion investment strategy is completely flawed. They have repeatedly pointed out that exploiting the...

And so it goes on. We may be able to send people to the moon but we are not able to stop a simple leak on an oil rig. Over two months after Thailand’s PTTEP’s well sprung a leak in...