Politics and the Climate Countdown
Politics and the Climate Countdown 1 October 2012 Time is running out fast if we are to avoid breaching the critical 2C threshold in the...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 1, 20125 min read
Countdown to Eco-Catastrophe
Countdown to Eco-Catastrophe 1 October 2012 The perilous acceleration of Arctic ice loss and the concomitant threat of runaway climate...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 30, 20124 min read
50 Months Left to Tackle Climate Change
50 months left to tackle climate change 1 October 2012 50 months to avoid climate disaster – and a change is in the air At the halfway...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 30, 20124 min read
Warming Seas and Vanishing Fish
Warming seas and vanishing fish 1 October 2012 Scientific study predicts fall in stocks and reduction in size of fish as a result of...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 30, 201212 min read
All that is solid melts into air - and water
All that is solid melts into air - and water All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 21, 20126 min read
Knowledge and Opinion
Knowledge and Opinion As evidence for the eco-catastrophe to come accumulates, we are thinking less about the environment and doing less...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 20, 201210 min read
We have changed the face of the planet
We have changed the face of the planet The Guardian of 15 Sept 2012 carried a story ‘We have changed the face of the planet’. ‘It is...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 13, 20125 min read
Arctic Sea Ice Melts to its Lowest Recorded Level
Arctic sea ice melts to its lowest recorded level Sept 2012 2012 Arctic sea ice extent lowest ever recorded 'It is official. Arctic sea...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 24, 20124 min read
The e-Akademeia
I set the tutoring I offer across a range of disciplines spanning the humanities and social sciences within a broader concern with “Being...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 17, 20129 min read
Ecological Virtue
ECOLOGICAL VIRTUE 2012 Stephen Emmott is head of computational science at Microsoft Research in Cambridge and professor of computational...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 16, 201225 min read
Aspects of Green Economics
ASPECTS OF GREEN ECONOMICS The Qualitative Conception of Wealth The idea of post-materialism and a post-materialistic ethic and social...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 26, 20129 min read
Climate Change - the Undeniable Truth
Climate change – the undeniable truth The crisis in the climate system is not merely an ecological crisis and cannot be resolved by...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 25, 20125 min read
Sceptical Scientists see the Light after Climate Change Study
July 2012 A scientific study set up to address climate change sceptics' concerns with respect to human-induced global warming has...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 25, 20125 min read
Pure Wind, or the need for an international green infrastructure
Pure Wind The enthusiasm of certain environmentalists for renewables in general and wind-farms in particular is admirable, in so far as...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 13, 20122 min read
The Case for Green Energy
THE CASE FOR CLEAN ENERGY 2012 The crisis in the climate system is the biggest market failure we have ever faced. To deal with it, we...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 30, 20123 min read
Climate change begins at home
Climate change begins at home June 2012 With governments subject to corporate capture within a systemic imperative to pursue economic...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 29, 201216 min read
Countdown to 2017
Countdown to 2017 2012 The International Energy Agency is not a political body, not a campaigning group and not given to radical stands...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 20, 201211 min read
Political Change the Key to Addressing Climate Change
Some notes and comments from letters and exchanges I had in the press in 2010-2012. I think I was quite informative and fairly...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 15, 201211 min read
Worldchanging
WORLDCHANGING 2012 A new politics of the common good isn't only about finding more scrupulous politicians. It also requires a more...
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Peter Critchley
May 18, 201213 min read
The End of Nature Without as the End of Nature Within
THE END OF NATURE WITHOUT AS THE END OF NATURE WITHIN When human empathy ends, civilisation declines and falls. The warm, affective ties...
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