Is climate protest making a return to the UK? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Did climate protest go away? It certainly did. By 2009 the UK had a worldwide reputation for climate action, but in the years after the UN climate talks in Copenhagen in December of that year it seemed to be melting away.

Climate Camp spent the summer of 2010 up in Scotland, and then decided to not to set up camp at all in 2011. Stop Climate Chaos was stripped down to a skeleton staff, and the head of Campaign Against Climate Change admitted that he was exhausted and "running out of money massively".

The Limits to Environmentalism | The Crux | Discover Magazine

Do green traditionalists have the capacity to shed their long-standing anti-economic growth bias? Do they have the capacity to incorporate some of the modernist outlook and embrace nuclear power and genetically modified crops, two technologies that experts say will be necessary to expand if the worst of climate change is to be avoided? Probably not anytime soon.

Russian Lake Vostok Scientists Say “New Ice Age Is Unavoidable”

Someone forgot to tell the Russians that natural climate factors no longer count for anything, and that from the 20th century on man-made CO2 is the sole driver of the climate – now making the Earth only warmer and warmer.