13 December 2007

Thousands march against climate change

Climate change demo December 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

"I SAID the other day it was system change we needed," one young person told his friend as they saw our posters on the Socialist Party stall before the 8 December climate change demo... By Sarah Sachs-Eldridge

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6 December 2007

System change not climate change

Climate change demo December 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

System change not climate change: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is currently taking place in Bali...

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29 November 2007

Stop the ruin of our planet

Climate change demo 2005, photo Paul Mattsson

WAITING FOR government action to end climate change is like waiting for the punch line in Eastenders... By Ben Robinson

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30 August 2007

Stop climate change

Heathrow airport runway protest, photo Marc Vallée

HURRICANES HAVE hit the Caribbean, large areas of the UK and Asia are recovering from floods, southern Europe suffers drought; so how can we save the environment?... By Ben Robinson, International Socialist Resistance

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24 August 2007

Thousands march in Tewkesbury

THOUSANDS OF flood victims in Tewkesbury, the epicentre of Gloucestershire's mini-Katrina, joined last week's march called by the town council... By Chris Moore

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9 August 2007

Floods: Profits rise, workers pay

Flood waters have subsided in most areas and electricity has been restored. Running water has been returned to most homes in the county, but we can't drink it, wash-up in it nor clean our teeth with it yet... By John Ewers, Gloucestershire Socialist Party

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12 April 2007

'Climate change will hit poorest of poor hardest'

Climate change demo December 2005, photo Paul Mattsson

International socialist action needed: In February a UN-sponsored international committee of scientists, the IPCC, issued Part One of a report that concluded that climate change had started, was a result of human activity (principally the burning of fossil fuels.

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15 March 2007

Will government plans stop climate change?

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) summit last week set targets on renewable energy use, energy efficiency and reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions...

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22 February 2007

Climate change - we have to act now

Why is climate change a problem?: The major capitalist countries (G8) are planning to meet in June in Germany to discuss climate change, among other issues...

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12 October 2006

Dave Nellist's global warning

IN 1972, David Bowie sang: "News had just come over... Earth was really dying". He was wrong, we're still here. But for how long? NASA scientists now say the Earth is warmer than at any time for the last 10,000 years. Dave Nellist writes.

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7 September 2006

Progress on climate change - or just hot air?

CLIMATE CHANGE is rarely out of the news media. Socialist Party councillor DAVE NELLIST explains that big business is the problem, not the solution...

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15 December 2005

Montreal conference - Little change on climate change

TONY BLAIR hailed the recent United Nations Montreal conference on climate change as a "vital next step in tackling climate." Green pressure group, Friends of the Earth said it was an "histori...

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24 November 2005

Big business destroying the planet

RAPID CLIMATE change, caused by pumping 'greenhouse gases' into the atmosphere resulting in global warming, is one of the greatest threats to our environment...

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7 July 2005

Climate change: Big business writes agenda for Bush

GEORGE BUSH still hasn't accepted that global warming exists, but he accepts that scientists say it exists...

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2 April 2005

Can we save the planet?

THERE IS new evidence that the threat from global warming is increasing...

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28 February 2004

Global Warning

A NEW secret report warns that climate change could kill millions of people worldwide through violent storms, searing heat, flooding, famine and drought....

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