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Progressive causes are failing: here’s how they could be turned around

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We appear to be incapable of dealing with invasive species while there’s still time.

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Here are the biodiversity challenges we’ll be pressing governments to meet

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Why are we still prospecting for oil when we can’t afford to use existing reserves?

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Why does a crazy set of beliefs in one field seem to migrate into unrelated subjects?

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It’s already clear that the climate talks in December will go nowhere - so what do we do?

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Those who made false accusations against Rajendra Pachauri are now turning their fire on me.

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A new book has forced me to reconsider my views on food.

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The people hounding him have failed to produce a single scrap of evidence to support their accusations, yet there’s no let-up.

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The report we publish for the first time today proves that the serious charges made against Rajendra Pachauri are completely untrue.

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Why climate science divides people along political lines.

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Green enthusiasm for vertical farms shows that no one is untouched by magical thinking.

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Talking has so far done nothing to protect the world’s biodiversity. So we’re launching a new campaign to get governments to act.

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How good planning can make us slimmer, fitter, safer and less lonely.

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The Conservative war on road safety has begun

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If the police can get away with killing Ian Tomlinson, there’s no justice in Britain.

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The results of our competition to name England’s threatened species are stunning.

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The government’s disastrous new deregulation programme means that the poor will be fouled by the rich.

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Was I right, when the hacked climate emails were released, to call for Phil Jones to resign?

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The climate change deniers are digging themselves an ever deeper hole over ‘Amazongate’

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How could the intent of today’s column have passed so many people by?

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Here’s how the UK should pursue its war against young people.

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The companies now threatening to sue BP have only themselves to blame.

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Matt Ridley only digs his hole deeper as he attempts to justify his distortions.

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The Tea Party movement is steeped in misinformation and denial. But it has a lot to teach the left.

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Lord Monckton’s increasingly extravagant claims threaten to destroy the movement he champions

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The oil industry’s decommissioning costs will dwarf those of nuclear power. The money being made now should be put aside to meet them.

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Matt Ridley’s irrational theories remain unchanged by his own disastrous experiment.

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Here’s a simple means of transforming the UK’s universities, schools and society

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A new report shows how the UK could tap into vast renewable resources, without any of the aggro caused by existing wind farms.

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Before the UK commissions a high speed rail network, we should ask ourselves some big questions.

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Industrial civilisation is trashing the environment. Should we try to reform it or just watch it go down?

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This hung parliament is the first and possibly last chance we have to transform politics. We must seize it.

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Almost half the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions have gone missing. Here they are, and here are the amazing implications.

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It’s time we stopped voting fearfully, and rewarding the most right-wing government the UK has had since 1945.

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Grassroots campaigns could break Britain’s corrupt political system

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Why are radical politics electable in Wales but not in England?

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Has our society become too complex to sustain?

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International law presents a radical challenge to the powerful: they could be judged by the same standards as the rest of us.

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We explore the mutual incomprehension across the climate emails divide

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Science and humanities students view each other with incomprehension: blame our dumb, narrow schooling.

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The police treat protests and festivals as a threat to their power

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What are our nuclear weapons for, and who controls them?

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I learn, once again, that telling brutal truths isn’t the best way of winning friends

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Here’s one small way in which the collapse of biodiversity could be slowed

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The scheme for supporting renewables that the UK is importing from Germany has been a disaster there.

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In fighting for science, we subscribe to a comforting illusion: that people can be swayed by the facts.

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I’m being hounded for taking a stand against feed-in tariffs: here’s a riposte to the critics.

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A TV debate about whether climate change is happening

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The feed-in tariffs about to be introduced here are extortionate, useless and deeply regressive.

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How the ultra-rich enslave themselves

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Wherever Blair goes, our campaign ensures that he can never be free from the fear of arrest

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Today I am launching a new fund – www.arrestblair.org – to reward people who attempt to arrest the former prime minister

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As the new badger cull shows, we revert to irrational destruction as soon as our economic interests are threatened.

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Avatar half-tells a story we would all prefer to forget

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How do we break a system which now permeates every aspect of our lives?

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This is what the failure of the climate talks means.

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The useless, destructive talks at Copenhagen show that the treaty-making system has scarcely changed in 130 years.

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We’ve finally had our battle, and it was not to his advantage

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This is what the US president should say in Copenhagen

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I meet the mayor of London and have a good old ding-dong

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The talks at Copenhagen are not just about climate change. They represent a battle to redefine humanity.

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Is Lord Monckton an asset or a liability?

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Shocked by the hacked emails? Wait till you see what the other side’s been up to.

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Here’s the evidence for the contentions in The Real Climate Scandal

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The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century.

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Yes, the hacked climate emails are damaging. But here’s the one you’d need to see if you wanted to show that manmade global warming is a scam.

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It’s probably too late to prepare for peak oil, but we can at least try to salvage food production.

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Local papers are vanishing. Does it matter?

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Why the sudden surge in climate change denial? Could it be about something else altogether?

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