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How hot is too hot?

How hot is too hot?

Photo by Rajiv Bajaj on UnsplashBy Paul Atkin Mad dogs and Englishmen, go out in the mid-day sun Noel Coward. The heatwaves in May and June have so far caused 2,700 excess deaths. There are likely to be more before Summer is out.  And with the current El Nino giving a...

A Primer on Carbon Capture and Storage Pipelines

A Primer on Carbon Capture and Storage Pipelines

Slide courtesy of Andrew Boswell By Ellen Robottom and Tahir Latif The first of a two-part blog on the government’s controversial plans to invest over £21Bn in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)1, focusing on the dangers and hazards to local communities of the proposed...

Cuba fights US sanctions with sunshine, and grit

Cuba fights US sanctions with sunshine, and grit

Photo by Juan Luis Ozaez on Unsplash The tightened siege on Cuba by the US is an attack on one of the world's most sustainable societies by one of the least, and one that is trying to lead a charge towards climate catastrophe because, as Marco Rubio put it in his...

Year of Trade Union Climate Action launches

Year of Trade Union Climate Action launches

London demo, Saturday, Photo by Claire James Around the country, trade union branches participated in the launch of the Year of Action on climate agreed at Trades Union Congress in September.  A workplace day of action was called for Friday 14th November, and the next...

Why SMRs are a delusion

Why SMRs are a delusion

Wylfa power station https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wylfa_Pano.jpgIn the context of Keir Starmer's announcement today that the first UK "Small Modular Reactor" will be built at Wylfa in Anglesey, this post from David Toke explains in detail why SMRs are   not...

Constructing a Feminist Climate Emergency Response

Constructing a Feminist Climate Emergency Response

As COP30, to be held in Belem, Brazil, approaches, it is instructive to consider what is needed to achieve a climate which will ensure a sustainable planet. The history of COPs is not encouraging: The Paris Agreement made at COP20 in 2015, committed to holding global...

The Emperor’s New Nukes

The Emperor’s New Nukes

Adapted from an original image by The Digital Artist https://pixabay.com/users/thedigitalartist-202249/The deal done during President Trump’s state visit to the UK for a “golden age of nuclear” is a policy standing on ice as thin as that in the Arctic in mid-summer....

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