Climate Change

Politics: no hiding place

June 24, 2026 4:17 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Bearing in mind that for most of the days through June, we’ve had the central heating on for at least... View Article

Climate change: long hot summers

September 4, 2025 3:22 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

It’s a while since I wrote anything on global boiling. Like the BBC, I regard the science as settled, only... View Article

Climate change: the hottest year

January 11, 2025 3:22 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

The Met Office, yesterday was parading with glorious certainty the headline to a triumphal press release which read: “2024: record-breaking... View Article

Climate change: the new right

January 10, 2025 3:27 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

California was of particular interest to me when I was working on the original draft of The Harrogate Agenda as... View Article

Net zero: reality bites

November 27, 2024 2:54 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Despite the hubris of the increasingly mad Ed Miliband, things are not going his way and, from now on they... View Article

Climate change: CoP out?

November 25, 2024 2:28 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

I tried to imagine something I would less like to write about than the just completed CoP summit in Baku,... View Article

Climate change: poised to fail

November 13, 2024 2:53 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

In the annals of insanity, it would be hard to improve on the spectre of a British prime minister being... View Article

Politics: round and round in circles

April 12, 2024 3:17 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Ever since the ECHR rulings on climate change – with the judgements delivered on 9 April, I had mentally reserved... View Article

Net-zero: creaking at the seams

February 8, 2024 3:53 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

It hasn’t been a good time for net-zero of late. In the past few days, the European Commission has been... View Article

Climate change: winter belong to us

January 9, 2024 3:33 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

The recent floods in the UK had the BBC (and others) burbling about climate change, while the Guardian got terribly... View Article

Media: the climate beat goes on

December 30, 2023 2:53 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

As we come to the close of a busy and an event-filled year, there is one recurring story which refuses... View Article

Climate change: the only way is up

December 26, 2023 3:42 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

“We care for the Earth for the sake of our children’s children”, said Charlie in his second Christmas address. Fortunately,... View Article

Climate change: the devastation

December 15, 2023 3:41 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Now that CoP28 has concluded, we can afford to relegate the issue of climate change to the obscurity it undoubtedly... View Article

Climate change: a grifters’ charter

December 14, 2023 2:57 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Although the CoP28 climate-fest has come up with what the Guardian calls a “landmark deal”, the media response – even... View Article

Climate change: on the verge of failure

December 12, 2023 2:52 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

I don’t think I’ve ever seen Caroline Lucas (pictured) looking quite so tired and dispirited as she complained bitterly to... View Article

Climate change: nothing to report

December 10, 2023 3:19 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

As will be evident to anyone who follows this blog closely, I use four main news “anchors”, the BBC, the... View Article