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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Books
Deadly heat
- 21 June 2004
The Long Summer: how climate changed civilisation Brian Fagan Granta Books, 284pp, £20 ISBN 1862076448
Environment
NS Essay - Global warming: is it already too late?
- 17 May 2004
- 6 comments
A forthcoming film that shows New York drowning may be based on dodgy science. But as the world gets hotter, climate change really could run out of control and we would be powerless to stop it
Politics
Give Blair another chance
- 05 April 2004
Mark Lynas proposes that we should forgive the PM for Iraq if he can redeem himself by embracing a big new idea for tackling both climate change and global poverty
Ideas
NS Essay - The biomass of human bodies now exceeds by a hundred times that of any large animal species that ever existed on land
- 23 February 2004
- 2 comments
The century's big issue is not equality in the conventional sense. It is whether we can share with other species and with future human generations. Neither left nor right understands
World Affairs
Santa is green, really
- 15 December 2003
Buried deep beneath the schmaltz and tinsel of this season of excess is a message for us about our past and our dependence on the land. By Mark Lynas
World Affairs
Dead in the water
- 22 September 2003
Mark Lynas listens to the Icelanders' arguments, economic and even ecological, in favour of whaling and finds himself almost (but not quite) convinced
Environment
It's later than you think
- 30 June 2003
- 1 comment
Mark Lynas has seen the results of man-made climate change across five continents. Only urgent action can now prevent a catastrophe, he argues
