In the wake of the flooding of Houston, and following the devastation of UK-owned islands in the Caribbean, Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas took the opportunity to ask the government whether it would be working to address the danger of climate change.  Remarkably, this question was slapped down by Foreign …

Listeners to the BBC Today programme this morning will have heard the interview with Ralf Speth, CEO of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), about the company’s plans to introduce several new lines of electric and electric hybrid cars.  In the course of the interview, Speth dropped three bombshells that threaten to …

Oil and Gas UK – the industry trade body – has its annual report out today.  The report seeks to put a gloss on the future of an industry whose stay of execution is only temporary.  According to Oil and Gas UK: “Almost $6 billion worth of mergers and acquisitions …

Figures released under a Freedom of Information request indicate that climate change has been a victim of the UK government’s austerity cuts.  The request to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) – which plays a lead role in assisting people in some of the most at-risk countries on earth on …

As the British media gush over the latest addition to the Civil List, we might want to consider how a third royal baby fits into the wider picture. There are already 7.5 billion of us on the planet; this is due to rise to between 9 and 10 billion by …

So-called ‘green energy’ is shaping up to be a wannabee Ponzi scheme reminiscent of the US fracking bubble.  It began with crowd-funded nonsense such as the idea that putting solar panels on the road so that cars and trucks can drive over them might be a good investment.  Since then, …

The supposed silver lining in the large storm cloud that is global ice melt, was that in the absence of the Arctic ice cap, oil companies would be free to drill into virgin seabed. Nowhere was this more so than the Barents Sea above Norway’s North Cape, which was promoted …

While most of the world’s media were focused on the impact of more than a metre of rain pouring down on Houston, Texas, the financial journalists had other matters on their minds.  In particular, as Harvey approached, the consensus seemed to be that the one silver lining was the inevitable …

Given their almost instinctive enmity toward all things Trump, it is hardly surprising that BBC news programmes have drawn the link between a climate change denying administration and catastrophic coastal flooding of precisely the kind that climate scientists have been warning about for decades. In addition to pulling the USA …

The apparent resilience of the UK economy in the face of last year’s Brexit vote has confounded economists and pundits.  The Remain Campaign’s dire ‘project fear’ predictions simply failed to materialise.  The sharp fall in the stock market – more a reaction to the surprise result than to its economic …