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2016 is set to be the hottest year on record – BBC News – 14 Nov 16
BBC News: Let’s talk to Tom Burke, Chairman of the environment think tank E3G, also a former government advisor on climate change. Thanks for being with us. So, 2016 looks … Continue reading
Posted in BBC, Business, Climate Change, Economics, Economics, Energy, Energy Security, In the media, International, People, Politics, renewables, Security, Sustainability
Tagged 2 degrees, America, BBC News, carbon, China, climate, climate change, economy, electric vehicles, emissions, energy, energy revolution, Kyoto, leadership, money, opportunity, Paris Agreement, Renewables, temperature, Trump
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See Earth’s Temperature Spiral Toward 2°C
By Andrea Thompson This article was originally published on Climate Central The steady rise of Earth’s temperature as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere and trap more and more heat is sending the planet spiraling closer to the point … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
Tagged carbon, climate, Climate Central, climate change, earth, emissions, extreme weather, GHG, global temperature, global warming, greenhouse gases, heats up, temperature, warming, warming trend
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The extraordinary weather that the country is experiencing – Sky News – 19 December 15
Sky News: Well let’s stay with that story about this extraordinary weather that the country is experiencing. We are joined now by Tom Burke, the chairman and founding director of the environmental think tank E3G. Tom thanks very much indeed for … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Domestic, Economics, Economics, Energy, Environment, In the media, International, Interviews, People, Sky News, The Human Cost
Tagged 2 degrees, Britain, climate, climate change, climate summit, cold, Deniers, desert, drought, dry, El Niño, environment, events, extreme weather, flood, floods, jet stream, Paris, temperature, two degrees, variability, warm, warmer, warming, weather, weather patterns
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Why are we so bad at responding to floods? – Tom Burke – LBC – 28 Dec 15
LBC: Lets speak to Tom Burke, he’s an environmentalist, and a former government adviser on the environment. Good morning Tom. Do you think that the government was warned about this or not? Tom … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Changing the Politics, Cities, Climate Change, Domestic, Economics, Economics, Energy, Environment, Finance, In the media, International, Interviews, LBC, People, Radio, The Human Cost
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Discussing climate change on LBC Radio – 14/09/15
Last year was the hottest year on record, and this year is going to be hotter still. What the Met Office is saying is that next year will be even hotter again. People … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigning, Climate Change, Domestic, Economics, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, European, Finance, In the media, International, LBC, Oil and Gas, Politics, Radio, renewables
Tagged Alaska, Arctic, climate, climate change, climate science, earth, efficiency, El Niño, energy, energy efficiency, global warming, greenhouse gases, hotter, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, La Niña, MET office, Obama, policies, policy, science, soalr energy, solar, solar panels, temperature, warm, warming
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Sky News – Obama gives Shell the go ahead for Arctic drilling
Obama is going to Alaska because Alaska is on the front line of climate change, and it is where we are seeing the impacts of a changing climate on human beings really dramatically already, right now. Obama … Continue reading
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Tagged Alaska, animals, Arctic, climate change, coastal, drilling, environment, environmentalists, erosion, fish, fossil fuel, Obama, oil, sea level rise, Shell, temperature, walruses
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Discussing Climate Change on the Jeremy Vine show – BBC Radio 2 – 31st March 2014
“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 … Continue reading
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FUTURE IMPERFECT: THE COLLISION OF CLIMATE AND CARBON
BY TOM BURKE This article first appeared in the Montrose Journal September 2013 Two epochal forces are shaping this century. One is economic, the $6 trillion dollar investment that will be made in developing fossil fuel assets over the next … Continue reading
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Tagged business, capital, carbon, climate change, competitive, consumption, crisis, economy, electricity, energy, energy bills, energy deman, energy demand, energy security, financial, fossil fuel, fracking, fuel, gas, global grid, market, oil, paradox, policy, population, Renewables, risk, shale fracking, solar, subsidy, temperature, transition, warming, wind
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