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How nuclear power can save the planet

  • 14 August 2008
  • 15 comments

Increased use of nuclear (an outright competitor to coal as a deliverer of baseload power) is essential to combat climate change

Coming to a screen near you - me!

  • 31 July 2008
  • 6 comments

How things have changed. Today, bookshops have entire shelves devoted to climate change. Television, too, has belatedly begun to catch up

A Green New Deal

  • 17 July 2008
  • 5 comments

A "war economy" social mobilisation harnessed, this time not towards fighting fascism, but towards heading off ecological crisis

The global warming deniers

  • 03 July 2008
  • 62 comments

The arguments of climate sceptics have largely been moulded by a far more sinister force - the US-based conservative think tanks

Why I was wrong about rationing

  • 29 May 2008
  • 14 comments

A far simpler way to constrain carbon is to deal "upstream" with the few dozen companies that produce or import fossil fuels, rather than hitting tens of millions of consumers

Political will is a renewable resource

  • 01 May 2008
  • 5 comments

Germany has 200 times more solar power installed than the UK - and this is not because Germany gets any more sun

Why Greens should vote for Ken

  • 03 April 2008
  • 6 comments

Livingstone is by far the best-qualified candidate to run London - and from an environmental perspective, this is even more the case, argues Mark Lynas

Darling ducked the difficult decisions

  • 19 March 2008
  • 7 comments

The Chancellor can no longer afford to ignore the contribution of international aviation and shipping to our carbon footprint

The good news from America

  • 14 February 2008
  • 12 comments

Most environmentalists are indeed leftists who support the redistribution of wealth and believe in a simpler lifestyle

If the cap fits, share it

  • 31 January 2008
  • 9 comments

Instead of setting up a new currency in carbon, cap and share utilises the oldest rationing system in the book: the price mechanism

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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