Tag Archives: Bill McKibben

The false promise of fossil-fuelled prosperity

Posted on 23 April 2013 by Peter Boyer

Our contradictory climate-energy policies will hurt us in the end. [23 April 2013 | Peter Boyer] Every week seems to bring a new setback to the global effort to curb carbon emissions. As if we didn’t have enough challenges, now … Continue reading →

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The phoney scandal that was Climategate

Posted on 31 July 2012 by Peter Boyer

The Climategate affair, now officially at an end, wrongly besmirched the reputations of climate scientists and their work. It may have set back efforts to fight global warming by a decade. [31 July 2012 | Peter Boyer] Let’s pause for … Continue reading →

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What is really needed to address climate change?

Posted on 11 December 2011 by Peter Boyer

Address to the 15th International Environmental Forum, Hobart, 10 and 11 December 2011. Conference theme: Ethical Responses to Climate Change [11 December 2011 | Peter Boyer] I’ll start at the beginning. Or about 56 million years ago, when the dinosaurs … Continue reading →

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