Climate Pulse

Why is human well-being improving globally when our environmental woes appear to be worsening all the time?We hear lots of concerned chatter these days – not least, here on this site - about peak oil, peak water, deforestation, resource depletion and the like, but a popular riposte offered by... [continue]

The Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh explains in his new book how a Buddhist approach could benefit ecology• Zen and the art of protecting the planetThere is something extraordinarily child-like about the 84-year-old Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh.To portray him out of context could make him... [continue]

Tea Party email to political candidates in Ohio seeks their views on the teaching of global warming in schoolsThe Tea Party movement in the US is a constant source of fascination to outsiders, not least because it is shaping up to be a major, possibly pivotal, political force ahead of the mid-term... [continue]

No wonder Climate Camp does not trust the media when the police dupe reporters into regurgitating unfounded rumours • Comment: Climate Camp is restricting free speech• Twitter backfires for Climate CampMonday's Climate Camp day of action against RBS looked like having all the classic ... [continue]

Angela Crandall In less than 10 years, firms in China, India and South Korea progressed from no wind turbine manufacturing experience to state-of-the-art wind turbine systems. Consider this: Goldwind from China installed 2,727 MW in 2009, a 140% increase on 2008 that saw its... [continue]

Efforts to restrict and control the media risk alienating the very people who are in the best position to help spread the camp's message• Twitter backfires for Climate Camp• Climate Camp as it happenedIn Monday's day of action at the Royal Bank of Scotland's Edinburgh headquarters both sides had... [continue]

The number of coal trucks suggest strains on China's energy supply that are equal to those on its transport systemIt is not easy to wake a coal truck driver at 2am, but I had to do it at least twenty times last night to get home from the massive traffic jam on the border between Hebei and Inner... [continue]

John Cook, who runs skepticalscience.com, says his faith drives him. But what does religion give him that science doesn't?• Skeptical Science blogger on how the climate sceptic iPhone app came aboutWriting about climate change can be dispiriting, to say the least. Even George Monbiot admits to... [continue]

A day of mass action by the Climate Camp protesters showed how badly Twitter can go wrong• Climate camp - as it happenedNo self-respecting NGO and campaign group would be seen these days without a Twitter account to spread the word (Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and WWF have over 200,000... [continue]

Activists from Climate Camp target sites owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland and companies with fossil fuel links around Edinburgh7.34am: Hundreds of Climate Camp activists have occupied land at the Royal Bank of Scotland's headquarters in Edinburgh, in protest at its multi-billion pound loans to... [continue]