Posted on Thursday 8 February 2007 at 08:32 pm by
The theory is this. The world is full of wonderful books, and terrible airports. Drop the airports. Read the books. Take the train.
Just as we now celebrate Slow Food, as opposed to its temporal opposite, let us now learn to love Slow Travel. This is my Mobilisation Resolution Number Two. (I will have to except love miles to Japan, where the in-laws live, and some other, currently inescap...
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Posted on Tuesday 6 February 2007 at 06:14 pm by
The Intergovernmental Panel’s warning was all across the front pages and TV news this morning. Apparently even the US networks turned up in force to the scientists’ news conference in Paris. For the Guardian’s man on the spot, the graphs said it all. “The words ‘hell’ and ‘handcart’ came to mind,” he wrote. I guess no amount of evidence will ever be persuasive for some of the contrarian contr...
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Posted on Monday 5 February 2007 at 07:04 pm by
In today's report
from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we have a mayday alert. The fourth scientific assessment from this expert group in 17 years tells us that the first tank battalions have already broken through the border. Reading between the committee-written lines one can sense the panic.
In 1990, I listened to the scientists who had completed the IPCC's...
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