Comments mseall has made

It's a bigger picture

True, in the Western world food is a smaller part of our income than ever before, but that doesn't mean that the whole world can afford increases in food prices. Increasing food prices will most likely be devastating for much of the third world.

It will also seriously affect Western lifestyles already under threat from unhealthy diets as a result of heavily processed food.

We will be eating more junk, while much of the world won't be eating much at all..On Why "the end of cheap food" isn't automatically a good thing posted 1 year, 11 months ago 7 Responses

Kyoto 2

The lack of general agreement risks a worst case scenario where we end up with another Kyoto giving us the worst of both worlds - expensive to implement, and ultimately useless..

TalkClimateChange

What a mess

The UK has some aggressive emissions targets, but no clear and concrete policies as to how they are ever going to reach these targets. There is complete political indecision on the whole topic.

And then last week we have the leader of the opposition party, David Cameron, (who complains that Brown isn't doing enough) telling Greenpeace how he will bloack any plans for Nuclear Power stations. Just where do they think all this energy is going to come from??

We need to realise that if we are going to be green then we will all need to compromise somewhere..
On A letter from James Hansen pleads for action on coal-fired power plants posted 1 year, 11 months ago 13 Responses

Low expectations, unfortunately

Good news: The topic is being discussed. And it will get valuable media attention and focus the world once again on the problem.

Bad news: We are unlikely to get too much in the way of tangible result from Bali. Read our rather pessimistic predictions here: http://www.talkclimatechange.com/2007/11/20/what-can-we-e ...On What folks are saying about the upcoming Bali talks posted 1 year, 12 months ago 1 Response

Still concerned

Political indoctrination, no. Questionable teaching material, definitely.

Although I agree with most of the content of the film, I am not sure if it's propaganda style is the best way to educate children on the topic.

My concern is that we show them Gore's film one week, and then show them The Great Global Warming Swindle the next week for a "balanced view". Not the best way to educate children about scientific process.On U.K. judge rules Inconvenient Truth partisan but still OK to show in schools posted 2 years, 1 month ago 2 Responses

Makes absolute sense

Great initiative. In most cases people don't even think about fuel cost since they assume that it will be such a small part of the total cost of the vehicle. But when you calculate it this isn't the case.

Making the fuel cost obvious is a great step towards making people aware of the win-win effect of reducing fuel usage. On Vehicles sold in the U.S. will be outfitted with fuel-economy stickers posted 2 years, 2 months ago 3 Responses