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The vanishing homes on our floodplains

The village of my childhood comprised a dozen or so company houses on the main road, our family home on the hillside above and the farmhouse of my father’s youth down on the river flats – and a newsprint mill … Continue reading

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The year we crossed the danger threshold

In the story of man-made global warming, a saga now stretching back many decades, the year just gone will be remembered as a standout, one for the history books. Scientists are innately cautious, and don’t like getting ahead of the … Continue reading

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Out of the rubble, a kind of hope

Another annual climate summit is with us. More hype, more dire warnings, more noisy protests, more solemn pronouncements, more hypocrisy, more fakery. This in a year set to be far and away the hottest in recorded history, when ice sheets … Continue reading

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