Mark Lynas on his GM u-turn - Videos
Peter Griffin • Apr 22, 2013 •
Tagged: Mark Lynas
Don’t worry Kyoto (National’s Only Looking Out For Its Friends) - Hot Topic
Gareth Renowden • Nov 12, 2012 •
The New Zealand government has announced that the country will not join the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (CP2), but will instead make voluntary commitments within the Kyoto framework [Herald, NBR]. Climate change minister Tim Groser presented this move as: …aligning [NZ's] climate change efforts with developed and developing countries which collectively are [...] … Read More
The God Species - Hot Topic
Bryan Walker • Aug 14, 2011 •
It’s an arresting title, The God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans. For author Mark Lynas the Holocene, the 10,000 year post-ice age era during which human civilisation evolved and flourished, has given way in industrial times to the Anthropocene, an age in which the human population has undergone extraordinary growth, [...] … Read More
Days of future passed - Hot Topic
Bryan Walker • Oct 06, 2010 •
The idea that a rise in global temperature of no more than two degrees above pre-industrial levels is a safe target for the world to aim for is widely accepted in political forums where the measures needed to stay within that range are considered. Not universally accepted though. The small island states and many others [...] … Read More
After Copenhagen: new world disorder - Hot Topic
Gareth Renowden • Dec 23, 2009 •
It’s a bit like reading the runes — trawling through reactions to the events of the last couple of weeks, trying to work out what the Copenhagen Accord means. I don’t mean a parsing of the words, though translating the language of diplomacy is never trivial, but what the various parties to the Accord, and [...] … Read More