First a frightening video from the Environmental Defense Fund (via Climate Progress) showing that we have known about our “Oil Problem” for decades, but somehow never quite got round to doing anything about it. I suspect the fossil fuel industry lobby had and has something to do with that.

There is an increasing gulf [...]

I have just realised that one of my heroes, science fiction author Kurt Vonnegut, suggested in 1990 that one day soon we will all go “belly-up like guppies in a neglected fishbowl.” He suggested an epitaph for our planet “We could have saved it, but we were too darn cheap and lazy.” It seems to [...]

However, in keeping with the current norms, the bad news is considerably worse than the good is good.

Firstly carbon dioxide emissions from the western world fell a record 7% in 2009.

Unfortunately the fall was caused by the recession rather than any deliberate attempt to cut emissions.

Even worse the entire reduction was offset by steep rises [...]