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Thursday 22 April 2010
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George Monbiot: Greg Clark, Ed Miliband, Simon Hughes could all have been fronting a Friends of the Earth campaign from a few years ago Continue reading...
Guardian climate debate hosted by Ian Katz with Ed Miliband, Greg Clark and Simon Hughes Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/guardian.co.uk
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Thursday 8 April 2010
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The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has five criteria for judging whether or not a request is vexatious. Photograph: Graham Turner/Guardian
George Monbiot: Original requests for information from the Climatic Research Unit appear to have been genuine, but there are later enquiries that could potentially be seen as aggravating
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Thursday 1 April 2010
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Judge but no jury ... Sergeant Delroy Smellie arrives at court in November. Photograph: Johnny Green/PA
The ridiculous acquittal of a Met sergeant for striking a protester armed with a drink carton proves how important it is to try police officers by jury, writes George Monbiot
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Wednesday 24 March 2010
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George Monbiot: If every windfarm company pledged 10% of its income to the local community, many more would be approved Continue reading...
If every windfarm company pledged 10% of the income to the local community, many more would be approved. Photograph: Sandy Huffaker/AP
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Friday 19 March 2010
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George Monbiot: Stocks will collapse after a few more seasons of fishing at current levels, and investors will just move on to the next catch
Bluefin tuna, Spain Photograph: Brian J. Skerry/Getty Images/National Geographic
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Thursday 11 March 2010
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This is what it looks like when multi-crystaline solar cells create energy from sunlight. Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images
George Monbiot: Our tariff plan is near-identical to Germany's – that's the one that produced woeful amounts of energy, jobs and innovation
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Friday 5 March 2010
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A worker tends to the world's largest solar plant in Germany. Photo: Waltraud Grubitzsch/EPA/Corbis
George Monbiot: We do not have a moral obligation to blindly support inefficient, expensive renewable technologies
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Thursday 25 February 2010
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George Monbiot: Peak oil should be good news for the environment, but not if it stimulates investment in even dirtier sources of energy Continue reading...
Climate campaigners outside Royal Bank of Scotland headquarters, protesting against the bank's funding for the coal industry and tar sands extraction in Canada. Photograph: SHAUN CURRY/AFP/Getty Images
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Tuesday 2 February 2010
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Professor Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and a professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, who, at the heart of the scandal, failed to make a vital correction for 20 years. Photograph: University of East Anglia
George Monbiot: The hacked emails shows that Phil Jones, after 20 years of failing to issue a correction, isn't the only one who should resign
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Wednesday 27 January 2010
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George Monbiot: Columnist and climate change denier should be congratulated for his attempt to do even more damage to his purported cause Continue reading...
A true archetype of libertarian conservative British Climate Change denier James Delingpole. Photograph: jamesdelingpole.com
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Thursday 21 January 2010
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George Monbiot: John Tomlinson, the Michigan Mauler, wins the one and only Christopher Booker prize for falsehoods about global warming Continue reading...
Christopher Booker prize 2009 offered for producing clap-trap about climate change Photograph: George Monbiot/Guardian
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Wednesday 13 January 2010
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George Monbiot: Frank Furedi's witchhunt comparsion exposes double standards when UK snow does not undermine global warming consensus Continue reading...
A road made impassable by snow in the Scottish Borders. Photograph: DAVID MOIR/REUTERS
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Wednesday 6 January 2010
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Snow in Bury, Greater Manchester. Why is there a national outpouring of idiocy every time some snow falls? Photograph: Christopher Thomond
Leo Hickman and George Monbiot: Climate sceptics are failing to understand the most basic meteorology - that weather is not the same as climate, and single events are not the same as trends
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Tuesday 5 January 2010
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George Monbiot: Regulatory failure has given supermarkets a stranglehold on grocery sales. Do the Tories have the guts to take them on?
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Monday 4 January 2010
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George Monbiot: Consumerism has, as Huxley feared, changed all of us – we'd rather hop to a brave new world than rein in our spending
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