This is what I think should happen now that we have a hung parliament: A Labour/Lib Dem coalition seems like the best solution for the country, with the understanding that there will be another election in the near future. Gordon Brown has to go. The vast majority of the electorate will be fuming if he remains ...

I've been having an interesting Twitter conversation with the UK Department for Energy and Climate Change. I say 'conversation', when what I really mean is that they replied once to point me to some documents online, and I bombarded their Twitter account with a barrage of messages. Tom Raftery also came ...

This morning I read an article on the Guardian entitled 'Save the Planet. But maybe not right now'. At first I thought that the article had some merit, but then I went back and read this comment, which made me laugh, and makes absolute sense, so I thought I'd reproduce it ...

Yesterday, I watched the Ad Hoc Science and Technology Committee hearing about "The disclosure of climate data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia". This is the result of so-called "Climategate" when the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit emails were hacked. You can watch a recording ...

I've just had the rather surreal experience of reading Simon Hoggart's column in Saturday's Guardian, in which he poses the question: "Is climate change the new faith?", with the strapline "Fanatics must stop playing fast and loose with global warming data". He goes on to describe himself as 'agnostic', and ...

The extent to which we are capable of empathising with numerous cultural identities is unique to our generation. This ridiculous machine of inter-cultural contact alongside the more human day-to-day exchanges of diversity together make for a formidable narrative of heterogeneity. By that I mean that I can refer my own ...

I just read this article by Ashley Seager about the rise of China and other emerging economies. This is my response. Dear Ashley, I read your article with interest. Whilst it is interesting to read a recap of the prevalent theory of capitalist growth as applied to China and the US, I ...

Semi-hypothetical situation: 1. Climate change caused by burning fossil fuels causes the melting of ice caps, which in turn disrupts the gulf stream, the key element of the weather system that makes Northern Europe a temperate climate. 2. Europe suffers plunging tempeartures and burns lots of fossil fuels to keep warm. 3. ...

One of the most common chants heard on climate change protests is the need for 'climate justice now'. This is referred to across the whole spectrum of NGOs, right through to the more grassroots campaigners who have come from across Europe to protest in Copenhagen. It refers to the need ...

There's so much noise coming out of Copenhagen that it's hard to know what to focus on. Yesterday, Tuvalu put forward a key proposal that called for Copenhagen to have a binding agreement that included large developing country (China and India) cuts, in contrast to the Kyoto approach. This is an ...