Is it me, or are there good reasons to be optimistic at the moment? An American promise of a Green ‘New Deal’, the UK’s pledge to cut CO2 80% by 2050, their failed plans to exclude aviation and shipping from the Climate Change Bill and then there is a slight whiff of a new economy [...]

Dirty Old Coal is back on the agenda. Due to public and goverments’ panic around soaring oil prices (which seem to be on the decline again), there are plans the world over for more coal-fired power plants: India has plans to build another 73 coal plants in the next 10 years. There are plans to [...]

Here I expand on a previous discussion ‘Would it be ethical to burn fossil fuels if it didn’t cause climate change?’ My view is that the debate surrounding the extent to which the burning of fossil fuels leads to climate change misses a more fundamental point. That is, fossil fuels are an inherently finite resource. [...]