The Long Game

As England and Wales baked over the summer, ministers quietly parked plans for solar carports. Decarbonising London’s rail termini. European wildfires revealed buried bombs and mines. Battery fires at recycling centres are costing Britain a billion pounds a year. Britain chose the wrong heating system a century ago. The 30,000-mile fish finger. The unexpected recovery of cod. India is warming less than expected. Nepal’s glacial collapse foreshadows a future of climate disaster. Trump’s initial aid contribution for Nepal flood victims was pitiful. A Trump-linked oil firm is preparing to drill in Greenland without a green light. Is Burnham trying to appease Trump with North Sea oil? Australia can’t deny its share of the climate catastrophe. Long-term changes in human blood chemistry appear to track rising atmospheric CO2. George Monbiot: Don’t despair about what’s happening to our planet. That’s what they want you to feel. Dean Doherty, a tool repairer in Donegal, posts YouTube videos…