This was one of my favourite stories of recent weeks. The Australian Climate Camp managed to obstruct the ralway line into one of the worlds largest coal ports in the world. ABC NewsSydney Morning HeraldAn article in solidarity with the protest from US youth blog Itsgettinghotinhere. Photos.

There seems to be something of a transit resurgence going on globally. This story is of a line extension in Tokyo. However this trend is not localised to the either the developed or developing world, everyone is struggling with oil prices of arond $140 a barrell. The various reasons for redesigning the transport infrastructur...

It's nice to see that the US and Europe are being joined by a third renewable energy super power. According to projections at Renewable Energy World, China is going to be a world leader in wind power by next year!

Here is an interesting fact that should supprise you if you read mainstream media coverage of China. "According to the California Energy Commission, the state with its 37 million people uses more gasoline and diesel than any other country on Earth except the US as a whole. That's more than India with its 1.1 billion...

Someone somewhere has a question to which the answer is nuclear power. That question is not "name a useful solution to climate change". I`ve posted a few times about nucelar power on this blog, perhaps i shouldnt have. This is meant to be a climate change blog. However, a lot of people seem to be pushing this problem as a...

Al Gore has sketched out his vision for taking america beyond fossil fuels for electricity in the next 10 years. That sort of timescale appeals to me, not because its what is required--which it is--but because the psychology as testified with the "moonshot" rhetoric is entirely more in line with the attitude required for...

Deforestation is one of the most avoidable and meaningless sources of carbon emissions in the world. The productivity is appaulingly low. However, some of the frameworks being looked at to solve this problem have been labelled neo-colonial. The worry is that in much of South America where much of the worlds great forests...

Sorry for the rather protracted absence. I`m back now with a few updates on the mad world of climate policy and protest from around the world. My favourite story of recent times is from the Guardian. Apparently the odds of Heathrows' third runway being built and the odds of a new coal power plant being built in Kent are...

Complaints against channel 4's "Great Global Warming Swindle" are upheld. But the damage has already been done. http:// entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/ arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/ article4361448.ece http:// www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/ 19/channel4.climatechange whilst BAE plan to rush their ethics...

In the darkness of twilight or the soft glow before dawn, stars seem to blink and drift about in the air. While crickets chirp, cicadas croon, and various creatures scurry about, strange yellow-green speckles light up the night. What you are witnessing is no choreographed prelude to a Pink Floyd concert, no moviemaker’s...