If there is the will, there is a way – Sky News – 02 November 14

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        Here is an interview I did for Sky News discussing the draft IPCC ‘synthesis’ report, why this report is different, and what difference it could make.   “I think there are two things that are different about this report, first of all this report is not just […]

‘IT’S THE ECONOMY STUPID’

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                    When the debate on the Fourth Carbon Budget began in Whitehall in 2012 the Treasury had a clear view. No. Meeting its requirements would be too damaging to Britain’s economy. How did they know this? Their model of the economy […]

SPEAKING WITH A FORKED TONGUE

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  This article first appeared in Business Green   . Last month, under pressure from activist investors, Exxon issued a report to their shareholders on climate change. To no-one’s surprise they found that “none of our hydrocarbon assets are now or will become ‘stranded’”. Some saw this as an important […]

After you Claude

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                    Britons only generate 1.42% of the world’s carbon emissions. No-one else is doing much to reduce their emissions. We are doing a lot and should not do more until everyone else joins in. This is the facile, Treasury inspired, argument […]

Discussing Climate Change on the Jeremy Vine show – BBC Radio 2 – 31st March 2014

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                “Climate change is happening now, and what we’re seeing is it’s nastier and faster than we thought even ten years ago.” “I think the mood really has changed, not just in Britain but around the world, and people now at least accept […]

‘Events, dear boy, events’ have put climate change back on the agenda

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  This article piece first appeared in The Guardian on Wednesday 26 March 2014 The decline of climate change on leaders’ agendas has been reversed – not by new analysis, but two years of extreme weather                   British prime minister, Harold Macmillan, […]

WHAT’S IN A WORD 2

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        I recently came across a quote from Benny Peiser from the Global Warming Policy Foundation. He was writing in the Daily Mail. What he said was “ Not only is much of the science behind the idea of global warming now being disputed, but, at a […]

Tom Burke LBC Radio Climate Discussion IPCC Report

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  LBC Radio 27th Spetember 2013 2pm             Discussing the IPCC AR5 report and the impact of climate change on LBC radio with James Delingpole Columnist for The Telegraph and The Spectator. Tom Burke: “The fact of the matter is that Price Waterhouse Coopers, one […]

Tom Burke BBC News Climate Discussion IPCC Report

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  BBC News 27th September 2013 7pm             Tom Burke, Environmental Policy Adviser and founding director of E3G, on BBC News discussing climate change, the IPCC Report and the role of two groups ‘the climate makers’ and ‘the climate takers’ in the future of climate, energy […]

Renewables threaten fossil fuel interests

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  This article was first published in the September edition of the ENDS Report.     A good 93% of Britons think the climate is changing. Such was the finding of a recent pollby the blog Carbon Brief. This is as close as polling can ever get to ‘everyone’. Nor […]