Hark, The Herald (And Lots of Other Papers) Finally Sing About The Climate

onDec 24, 2007 @ 06:33 PST

Big wake-up to global warming

To illustrate, the Philadelphia Inquirer tracked the number of times the term “global warming” was mentioned in their paper over the years. In 2007 “global warming” was mentioned over 400 times, more than double any previous year.

An attitude shift as inexorable as global warming itself this year brought world groups together to debate risks.

“This was the year that global warming hit the mass radar screen, driven by a drumbeat of catastrophic predictions from top scientists, a jaw-dropping acceleration in polar ice melt…”

By Ross Gelbspan

Analysis

Critics Question the Climate Crisis Benefits of Deep Seabed Mining

ByIan Urbina

onSep 18, 2021 @ 06:00 PDT

As the world starts to seriously entertain the possibility of commercially mining the deep sea for valuable metals, it's worth taking a closer look at the claims used to justify its potentially long-lived impacts.

Analysis

uk/How Climate-Conscious is Boris Johnson’s New Cabinet?

ByAdam Barnett and Phoebe Cooke

onSep 17, 2021 @ 11:55 PDT

The government still contains four ministers who criticised “government-subsidised green technology” back in 2012, but one of them seems to have changed his mind about state intervention since then, and there are some new environmentally-friendly faces around too.

Cook Islands UN Negotiator Paid $700k by Shipping Industry Lobby Group

ByRich Collett-White

onSep 17, 2021 @ 08:42 PDT

Campaigners have criticised Captain Ian Finley, a UK resident who has represented the Cook Islands at the International Maritime Organization since 2006, for consistently defending industry interests.