The sound and fury of a Brexit-backing climate change denier
Roz Paterson takes a look at the views of Tory grandee Lord Lawson • Weary of Brexit? Fed up with climate change? Come on then, let’s talk about Nigel Lawson. For those ...
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Climate change deniers can expect tough challenges
by Roz Paterson • Global temperatures in 2017 will, probably, not exceed those of 2016. That’s the good news. In full. Happy new year. Last year and the year before broke ...
Standing Rock ‘victory’ far from certain
by Roz Paterson • On Sunday 4 December, the Army Corps of Engineers—on behalf of the US government—refused a permit for the builders of the North Dakota Access ...
Trump’s climate deniers menace the planet
by Roz Paterson • The blows are coming thick and fast. The conciliatory speeches are out the window and now America’s President Elect Donald Trump is talking about mass ...
Brexit puts EU-based environmental controls at risk
by Roz Paterson • In the wake of almost certain Brexit, the pariah that is the UK may well have to prostrate itself at the feet of anyone willing to do business, even ...
A nuclear nightmare is possible
Roz Paterson looks at new report on the dangers of nuclear weapons convoys • In 2011, a goods lorry suffered a blow-out at the busy Reith interchange, near Bellshill, ...
Tackling climate change can create jobs
Roz Paterson looks at a trade union-based plan • It’s not often you read a booklet about climate change and actually feel like whooping with excitement at its vision of ...
Land reform: much remains to be done
by Roz Paterson • “I have described the Grampians as a great faunal region—and so, according to our twentieth-century standards, it is. I ought rather to have ...
GM salmon to be let loose
Roz Paterson reports Q: When is a fish not a fish? A: When it’s a commodity. OK, not exactly side-splitting, but then the introduction of Genetically Engineered (GE) salmon ...
Report: meat industry endangers the planet
by Roz Paterson Twelve months to save the planet! At the end of this year, world leaders will gather in Paris for a series of photo opps, some free bottled water…oh ...
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