Joss Garman
Joss Garman writes on the environment. He is a climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace and a co-founder of Plane Stupid. Joss is blogging in a personal capacity.
The Milibrothers take the green test
Here at Left Foot Forward, we have taken David Miliband’s green proposals and compared them to statements from the Coalition and also from the other Labour front runner, his brother Ed.
World’s most famous climate sceptic: Global warming a ‘chief concern’
The Guardian today splashed with the news that the man the paper describes as “the world’s most high profile climate change sceptic,” Bjørn Lomborg, has u-turned and described global warming as “undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today” and called for tens of billions to be spent tackling the problem.
Telegraph forced to retract lies and smears about climate scientist
The Telegraph story about IPCC chief, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, is the latest to be completely debunked - having been quietly retracted by the newspaper.
Major battle looms over plans to explore for ‘extreme oil’
Following the catastrophic BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a major battle is now looming over fresh plans by oil companies to try and explore for and access so-called ‘extreme oil’.
The future, now: Extreme weather forecasts fit scientists’ climate predictions
Millions of people around the world are suffering the effects of extreme weather events - matching up to predictions long made by climate scientists of more frequent and more intense weather events due to global warming.
Measures to clean up power sector won’t be in coalition’s energy law, reveals Huhne
In a letter to today’s paper, the energy and climate change secretary has, in effect, confirmed that the emissions standard won’t be included in the coalition’s first energy bill. Instead, he uses the letter to reaffirm his commitment to bring forward the new green measure “as quickly as possible”.