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19 February 2014
The misery continues. On Tuesday there were still 118 flood warnings and 166 flood alerts. Four people have died. Thousands of houses and properties are under water. Sinkholes also pose a threat.
12 February 2014
Floods misery: Government cuts to blame
While thousands of homes and shops are waist deep in toxic water, and flooding hits new areas, government ministers indulge in a blame game
29 January 2014
The European Union Framework for climate and energy conference recently agreed, after much wrangling, only a timid response to the threat of climate change
28 January 2014
Floods: fully-funded environmental planning needed
Residents in Somerset still find their homes underwater four weeks after the initial floods.
27 November 2013
Nothing achieved by UN climate talks
Contrary to the misleading upbeat media reports, the United Nations climate change conference in Warsaw, which was meant to agree binding reductions in CO2 emissions, effectively ended in failure
20 November 2013
Philippines: Typhoon damage worsened by capitalism
Typhoon Haiyan ('Yolanda' in the Philippines) has caused destruction on a massive scale. This storm was three times more powerful than Hurricane Katrina, which killed 1,400 people in the United States
2 October 2013
Big business puts profits before environment
The world is heating up - this is now beyond argument. A report from the UN has now backed the 97% of climate scientists who believe human activity to be the main cause, writes Geoff Jones.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the USA graph of Carbon Dioxide concentrations
31 July 2013
Climate change accelerates... but capitalism sets the agenda
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the main cause of global warming, has reached a critical level, writes Pete Dickenson.
Bee, photo by USDA Photo by Jack Dykinga
8 May 2013
The Con-Dem government has been accused of bowing to the agrochemical industry, supporting bad science, and threatening food production around the world, writes Pete Mason.
Climate change demo December 2005 , photo Paul Mattsson
13 March 2013
Energy starvation and climate change
Alternative energy and socialist planning needed: A spectre is haunting the world, the spectre of irreversible climate change. But at the same time the world is in the grip of a desperate hunger for energy, writes Geoff Jones.
12 December 2012
Fracking - gas profit dash could wreck climate
In his Autumn Statement, Con-Dem chancellor George Osborne announced a new 'dash for gas' including fracking, the technology used to obtain gas and oil trapped in shale rock, writes Pete Mason.
28 November 2012
Flooding tragedies - Socialist action needed to tackle climate change
While some of the worst storms and flooding in recent memory hit parts of Britain, UK climate change secretary Ed Davey was in Doha for the latest in the series of toothless United Nations Climate Change conferences
National Snow and Ice Data Centre graph of arctic ice extent, 17 September 2012, photo by NSIDC
19 September 2012
Global warming: Capitalists skating on thin ice
The National Snow and Ice Data Centre is expected to announce a new low in the extent of the arctic sea ice, writes Pete Mason.
22 August 2012
Food prices soar: "Please sir, may I have some more?" It's not just Dickensian orphans who have to fight for the most basic staple - food...
National Snow and Ice Data Center daily image 20 June 2012, photo National Snow and Ice Data Center
20 June 2012
Why Rio+20 will cut no ice: Every day an update of the extent of the ice in the arctic sea is posted on the National Snow and Ice Data Centre website, writes Pete Mason.
Profit at all cost, cartoon by Alan Hardman
6 June 2012
Energy bill puts profits before the planet
Socialist planning needed: A recent poll has shown 68% support - 80% among 18-44 year olds - for building wind farms across Britain...
30 May 2012
Needed: a socialist plan for the environment
Global warming: threat critical: Global warming is the overriding environmental issue facing the world. 20 years have passed since the UN 'Earth Summit' in Rio de Janeiro highlighted the problem, yet emissions have rocketed
8 May 2012
Profit hungry 'Big Oil' backs climate change deniers
While April may have been the wettest April in the UK for 250 years and March was the warmest March ever recorded in the US, top corporations are funding climate change denial
18 April 2012
Emissions of greenhouse gases that cause climate change have escalated to critical levels. Pete Dickenson indicts the representatives of the capitalist market system, citing the antagonisms between the major industrial powers.
18 April 2012
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