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The price of carbon

Democrats and Republicans seem to be re-enacting the scene in “Rebel Without a Cause” in which the protagonists race their cars towards a cliff in a game of chicken. The fiscal cliff is speeding towards them and failure to reach a deal... Read More »


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The right amount of hope

As the latest instalment of climate negotiations gets under way in Doha it is important to ask just how far we need to cut emissions of greenhouse gases.  A recent UNEP report indicates that there is a substantial gap between the commitments ... Read More »

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Geoengineering Research: Walking on thin ice

Calls for geoengineering research in the open environment must be resisted until we have adequate governance in place. We are walking on thin ice – physically and metaphorically. This year the extent of arctic sea ice minimum has been sh... Read More »

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Russian Roulette with four chambers loaded

In 2009, at Copenhagen, the climate summit ended in a debacle. But one thing emerged from that meeting and that was a commitment to ensure that rises in global mean temperatures would be held to 2C. But there was no binding framework as to how thi... Read More »

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Geoengineering - the last thing we need

Tim Kruger  is the James Martin Fellow responsible for managing the Oxford Geoengineering Programme.  Geoengineering is the deliberate, large-scale intervention in the Earth’s natural systems to address climate change. A year into ... Read More »