Using language to make the world of fossil fuels strange and ugly
They weren’t getting it. I had a room full of bright first-year university students in front of me, but confusion reigned as I tried to…
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The World Cup of Climate Change
In the game of tackling climate change, who would be the champion? By Tan Copsey and Bridgette Burkholder The World Cup starts today. Billions of…
How much fuel does it take to power the world?
It’s currently billions of tonnes of fossil fuels every year. With new (or existing!) technologies, we could literally change the world. “In terms of weapons, the…
German coal mining could end by 2030s, says Merkel’s coalition negotiator
Leader of North Rhine-Westphalia, who is leading the CDU’s coalition talks on energy, said mines across Germany could be closed by the decade after next…
An inconvenient truth
High expectations are being built around the forthcoming 21st Conference of the Parties (COP-21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which will…
Fossil Fuels Just Lost the Race Against Renewables
An earlier version of this story represented the IEA’s scenario for solar in 2050 as a forecast when it was in fact one of several…