Temperatures in the northern hemisphere passed the limit of 2 degrees of warming for the first time last month.  The amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide is higher than at any time in the last 8,000.  The trend toward runaway global warming (well beyond 2 degrees) is accelerating.  And the action …

Our society is largely blind to the importance of energy.  Most of us have little idea where it comes from, let alone just how much our economy depends upon it.  This energy-blindness is, of course, a particularly alarming trait of the current UK government which seems to think that energy …

What happens when the public are fooled into believing that a businessman would make a better political leader than, say, someone who understands public service? Well, in the shape of Donald Trump, the entire world may find out come November.  But we don’t have to wait to see if Trump …

Climate scientists have been warning of the threat to global food supplies for decades.  Drought, flooding and sea level rise threaten to dramatically reduce the productivity of the world’s key agricultural regions.  However, even these dire warnings may have underestimated the threat according to a new study published in the …

A combination of the El Nino in the pacific and the general upward trend in global temperature pushed last month’s temperatures higher than any month since records began in 1880 according to new data from NASA. While some of the rise can be attributed to the El Nino event, Andrew …

Asjylyn Loder, Steven Church and Jodi Xu Klein writing for MSN Money claim that US Investors face $19 billion in debt defaults unless several US energy companies can reach an agreement to restructure their debts this week. Loder, Church and Klein argue that the problems go back to the early …

MPs on the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee have accused Chancellor George Osborne of overstating the savings customers would make as a result of the new policy of putting energy suppliers in charge of retrofitting insulation to Britain’s homes. Osborne had claimed that an average household would save £32 …

If you owned an oil well today, your best bet would be to cap it, wait for the current over-supply of oil to be used up, and then start pumping again once prices had risen above $100 again.  That would be common sense.  But that isn’t how things are playing …

Most of our focus on tackling climate change has been on the carbon dioxide emissions generated when we burn carbon dioxide in our electricity and transport industries.  Given this concern, it is unsurprising that scientists and campaigners have also turned their attention to the carbon dioxide emissions generated by agriculture. …

It will not be a climate crisis or an energy crunch that will mark the start of our collapse.  Credit will be the first casualty of our predicament Claiming that Britain has a “savings crisis” is a bit like saying that someone infected with the Ebola virus has a fever.  …