Greg Tallent  Complex Negotiations between Many Countries to Reduce Carbon Emissions, Which Impact on the Growth of These Countries, Is Unlikely to Make a Significant Impact   Nigel Lawson, Chancellor of the Exchequer during Margaret Thatcher’s government, is a climate sceptic. The challenges much of what is being written now about the climate as "global warming nonsense". In his book, An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming, he writes that climate change is not the threat we believe [...]http://feeds.feedbur.. height="1" width="1" /> 66 days ago
	Greg Tallent  What Impacts Most on People, You and I, Is the Price of Food and Fuel   From climate change to global hunger. The conversation is changing. But, we’ve always had global hunger. The West hasn’t talked much about it before, nor done as much as they should have. What’s the difference now? It can only be that people are realising that this problem of hunger is going to increase. Why? [...] 84 days ago
	Greg Tallent  We Need Technology to Deal with Global Change   On climate change, Howard Bloom, author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History, does not hold back, Our goal is not sustainability. It’s not to bow and grovel hoping Mother Nature will also freeze in place. Our challenge is to outrun nature by inventing radically new ways to deal [...] 99 days ago
	Greg Tallent  In Negotiations We Need Both Reason and Persuasion Not only do we have a problem with the climate, we also have a problem with other countries. A recent report from two top EU foreign policy executives warn that “significant potential conflicts” are likely in the decades ahead as a result of “intensified competition over access to, and control over, energy resources”. It predicts that [...] 112 days ago
	Greg Tallent  There’s a Problem up Ahead but We Don’t Change Anything Is global warming now irreversible? Climate science maverick James Lovelock believes it is and that catastrophe is inevitable. His reason, I see it with everybody. People just want to go on doing what they’re doing. They want business as usual. They say, ‘Oh yes, there’s going to be a problem up ahead,’ but they don’t want to [...] 113 days ago
	Greg Tallent  There Is a Social Cost to Carbon Emissions What they are and where they fall is still very much debatable. Sir Nicolas Stern was commissioned recently by the Labour government to produce a report on the economics of climate change. George Monbiot, who writes for the Guardian newspaper, says about this report, He [Stern] showed that stopping runaway climate change would cost less than failing to [...] 119 days ago