Time to declare war on warming
In 2004, scientists warned that the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere during 2003 had been unusually high for the second year running. They were becoming worried about runaway warming, they said. Runaway warming is a horror story wherein carbon dioxide emissions are stimulated at a faster rate from an overheating natural world than they can be reduced by society cutting fossil-fuel burning and other sources of greenhouse-gas emissions.
What a (nuclear) waste
I have belatedly found time to scan the government's energy review, published earlier this month. The experience was not good for my blood pressure. The review joins a growing list of dodgy dossiers published by the Blair government in support of its growing catalogue of policy misjudgments. The government's dodgy dossier on energy represents missed opportunities on a scale that is hard to understate.
Dodging bullets too long
Global warming will provide the salvos that sink the already blazing insurance industry.