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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An environmental utopia - up to a point

  • 11 October 2007
  • 7 comments

We downtrodden Brits often look enviously at Scandinavian countries as models of genteel social democracy...

Back to the future

  • 27 September 2007
  • 2 comments

The World Without Us Alan Weisman Virgin Books, 336pp, £20

Green papers, white lies, hot air

  • 20 September 2007
  • 9 comments

Britain's policy on global warming remains mired in confusion, with too much debate and too little action. But there is a solution ...

Neutrality is cowardice

  • 30 August 2007
  • 12 comments

Journalists who provide a platform for climate change sceptics should summon up the courage needed to help defend the planet

The most important protest of our time

  • 16 August 2007
  • 41 comments

Aviation is the incendiary issue in environmental politics today. The campaigners at Heathrow are just the vanguard of a powerful new people's movement.

What’s really going on here

  • 26 July 2007
  • 18 comments

This is not "a poor summer". Britain has been experiencing its worst ever climate change event. We must recognise this and our own responsibility for the emerging crisis.

Even Greens need leaders

  • 12 July 2007
  • 51 comments

The Greens need a someone to lead them but they must have radical credentials

We're not facing up to the real housing crisis

  • 28 June 2007
  • 5 comments

If we don't limit the growth in population in this country, then we cannot hope to limit the impact of urban overcrowding and rural overdevelopment

Bush's bluff has been called by China

  • 14 June 2007
  • 2 comments

Even for George Bush, the apostle of climate-change deniers, an out-and-out obstructionist US position is no longer tenable

Don't blame Mrs Miggins

  • 04 June 2007

It's a shame the government doesn't trust ordinary people to come up with the right answers

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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