Labour Supporters Urge Miliband to Lead Climate Campaign

Thousands take to the streets of London in support of the London People’s Climate March calling for global action on climate change. Labour Party supporters attending the People’s Climate March in London called on their leaders at the Manchester party conference to take a lead in the political battle to reduce emissions and prevent catastrophic global warming.    Grassroots […]

Osborne Father-in-Law Dubbed 'Dunce-Head' in Fracking Row

A future Labour government must enforce an “outright ban” on fracking and leave almost all fossil fuels in the ground, the former environment minister Michael Meacher MP said last night.  The Labour MP for Oldham West and Royton then launched an impassioned attack on Lord Howell, a Tory peer and father-in-law of chancellor George Osborne, for […]

Labour Attacks Climate Denier Lawson for Gas Bills Double Standards

Shadow minister vents fury on eve of world climate summit about environment being blamed for higher gas bills by climate deniers and says privatisation and deregulation are the real culprits  Labour shadow minister Barry Gardiner today accused the Tory grandee Lord Lawson of “promoting global warming” and apparent double standards after the former chancellor blamed climate change measures for high gas bills […]

Lawson’s Account of Doubling Gas Bills Ahead of Privatisation

Lord Lawson – then plane Nigel – recorded in his autobiography, The View from Number 11: Memoirs of a Radical Tory, the extraordinary controversay that surrounded his insistance that gas bills for hard working families should be hiked.   “Margaret herself was not entirely immune” to the public outcry at the government’s extraordinary rise. “David […]

Proximity To Fracking Wells Increases Incidence Of Health Problems: Study

A new study has found that people living in close proximity to a fracked natural gas well are twice as likely to suffer upper-respiratory or skin problems. The study, published by Environmental Health Perspectives, found that 39% of people living less than a kilometer from a well in Washington County, Pennsylvania, which is part of […]

New York City is Amped for The People’s Climate March

“The People’s Climate March” is quickly approaching.  The level of organization for Sunday’s event is more impressive than any other rally — climate or otherwise — this writer has ever witnessed in New York City. Organizers have predicted some 100,000 people will march, making it not only the largest climate rally in history, but very […]

Quite a Chain of Consequences for a Chicken Farmer!

Antony Fisher founded the think tanks in Britain that first promoted climate denial. His dramatic life story is a vital morality tale for those concerned about climate change. Picture: Antony (right) and Basil at Eton. “Without Fisher, no IEA; without the IEA and its clones, no Thatcher and quite possibly no Reagan; without Reagan, no Star […]

Sick of Enviro Documentaries? Why You Should Still Watch Disruption

This is a guest post by Zach Roberts. As a documentary producer, I watch more than my fair share of environmental protest documentaries — probably about 20 a year. And almost all of them have the same, vague message: we need to do something! Their scenes re-play like a bad video montage in my mind: earnest young […]

Workers at Fracked Wells Exposed to Benzene, CDC Warns Amid Mounting Evidence of Shale Jobs' Dangers

For years, the oil and gas industry has worked to convince Americans that the rush to drill shale wells across the country will not only provide large corporations with lavish profits, but will also create enormous numbers of attractive and high-paid jobs, transforming the economies of small towns and cities that greenlight drilling. The industry’s numbers […]

Monckton Takes Break from Attacking Science – Calls for Qur'an Ban in US

BY ARWA ABURAWA Lord Monckton was today accused of demonising Islam as the climate denier moved the focus of his ire temporarily from climate scientists to a major world religion. The controversial Viscount, who falsely claims to be a member of the House of Lords, argued that selected passages of the Qur’an incite violence against nonbelievers […]