Climate science came massively under attack in 2010. Leaked emails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia were spun by the right wing media to claim that climate scientists had hidden and manipulated data. The… Continue Reading
On Sunday 19 September 2010 engineers finally sealed the Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, which had exploded five months earlier and caused the “the world’s largest accidental offshore oil spill”.1 The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil… Continue Reading
The global economic crisis of the last two years has transformed the nature of climate politics in two ways. The turning point was Copenhagen. First, the economic crisis has changed the nature of climate politics at the top. From 2005… Continue Reading