Tag Archives: Arctic

The danse macabre of politics, business and carbon dioxide

Posted on 24 March 2015 by Peter Boyer

Business’s bottom line is now the favoured target of activists seeking to have an impact on our relentlessly-rising CO2 levels [24 March 2015 | Peter Boyer] By the end of next year, for the first time in human history, the … Continue reading →

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The madness of mining for oil in Alberta

Posted on 6 January 2015 by Peter Boyer

The things we will do for a quick buck [6 January 2015 | Peter Boyer] The pictures show rich wheat fields under big prairie skies giving way in the west to rolling foothills and the pine-clad, snow-topped Canadian Rockies. Alberta … Continue reading →

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Troubling signs from Antarctic ice

Posted on 28 October 2014 by Peter Boyer

While global surface temperature records continue to fall, warming seas raise the spectre of irreversible melting in Antarctica [28 October 2014| Peter Boyer] Some news we could have done without: Planet Earth has just had its warmest September since global … Continue reading →

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