Mark Lynas

Mark Lynas

Mark Lynas has is an environmental activist and a climate change specialist. His books on the subject include High Tide: News from a warming world and Six Degree: Our future on a hotter planet.

Articles by Mark Lynas

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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 power to save Britain

  • 06 March 2008
  • 21 comments

How our island could be supplying Europe with green electricity. Plus Peter Hain on getting real about renewables

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

Why Britain doesn't need nuclear power

  • 17 January 2008
  • 17 comments

It is shameful the UK languishes at the bottom of the renewable energy league despite our huge resources

Has global warming really stopped?

  • 14 January 2008
  • 1717 comments

Mark Lynas responds to a controversial article on newstatesman.com which argued global warming has stopped

Bali to Copenhagen

  • 03 January 2008
  • 13 comments

Bali convinced me that agreeing a new phase of Kyoto is by far the most important objective for climate-change stabilisation

Mark Lynas's Green Grid

  • 13 December 2007
  • 18 comments

Should the incremental approach of Kyoto be extended, or ditched for something more ambitious? Read the arguments for and against and vote in our climate choice poll

The price of a living forest

  • 22 November 2007
  • 9 comments

The blunt economic truth is clear: deforestation can never be stopped as long as trees are worth more dead than alive

How to stop climate change: the easy way

  • 08 November 2007
  • 44 comments

Changing your light bulbs may not be enough to save a single polar bear, but there are things we can do collectively - and easily - that will really make a measurable difference in the battle against global warming. Mark Lynas has a three-part plan. Illustration by James Fryer

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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