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Boffins: Give up on CO2 cuts, only geoengineering can work

Ordinary eco-efforts a foolish distraction

2 Sep 11:28

UK media: 'Met Office computer will destroy the world'

Analysis Oh for f*ck's sake

28 Aug 14:26

Forget solar panels, it's time for rooftop slime-tanks

And offshore 'artificial tree' forests. Apparently

27 Aug 12:21

Bubbly-belly-bugging boffins battle bovine belch peril

Tesco agro-surveillance to ward off cow-burpocalypse

21 Aug 15:21

Musk/Tesla Motors lawsuit by former exec dropped

Updated Nobody wants to say why

21 Aug 09:43

'Postpone Kyoto successor', urges climate boffin

Doing nothing is better than doing something stupid in Copenhagen

20 Aug 11:28

Global Warming ate my data

We've lost the numbers: CRU responds to FOIA requests

13 Aug 14:35

Walmart goes green with solar build-out

But Intel still the greenest

1 Aug 00:04

Kit makers trash New York e-waste recycling

Door-to-door pickup 'crushing' and 'irrational'

27 Jul 20:26

Windfarm Britain means (very) expensive electricity

Renewable energy at normal prices 'is a myth'

22 Jul 10:00

Government promises low carbon future

£10m for electric car chargers

15 Jul 15:04

Supers get greener

But HPC iron still glows red hot

15 Jul 00:03

NASA data shows 'dramatically' thinned Arctic ice

Seasonal ice dominates for first time (on record)

9 Jul 01:24

New boffinry: North Atlantic could be massive CO2 sink

Icelandic phytoplankton starved of iron, seemingly

8 Jul 15:40

Happiness Index: Don't move to Vanuatu

The bogus logic of 'sustainability'

8 Jul 11:21

UK climate change funding cut by 25%

Weather soothsayers lose £4.3m

26 Jun 20:19

Mystic Met Office predicts neighbourhood Thermageddon

Modelling 'totally inadequate' last year - why trust it now?

24 Jun 11:30

Prof: Global windfarm could power entire human race

Analysis Provided most of it remains in misery, that is

24 Jun 10:32

New green and quiet jet-engine test results announced

Paris Airshow Revolutionary turbofan spun by P&W

18 Jun 09:24

NASA working on 'open rotor' green (but loud) jets

Want to save the planet? Put up with noisier airports

12 Jun 12:56

Tesla claims founder's lawsuit is 'fiction'

Opening broadsides in electrocar kingpin wrangle

12 Jun 09:59

Research: Airliners can be more eco-friendly than trains

Flying cars bound to be greener than normal ones, surely

8 Jun 08:58

Ex-SAP man joins Gore green crusade

Hip hip Hara

1 Jun 21:22

Decarbonising Britain won't work: study

Pious targets don't butter no parsnips

28 May 07:02

E-cars are a dangerous myth, says top boffin

Bleeding science funding for useless toys?

22 May 08:02

Brit hover barges, airships offered to Canadian oilfields

Can Blighty beat the (partly) Canadian blimpcopter?

21 May 14:23

Another 0.03% of Blighty goes wind powered

The very fact this is news shows it isn't happening

20 May 10:48

Gov 'smart meter' plans: Sky box in charge of your house

Analysis Smart for energy companies, crippled for users

13 May 09:02

Google blames cheeseburgers for destroying the planet

OJ, newspapers guilty too

12 May 14:48

US prof says 'bioelectric' cars much better than biofuel

Analysis Still trying to run modern society by burning crops

8 May 14:38

Top British boffin: Time to ditch the climate consensus

Interview Don't use science to get round politics, says Hulme

6 May 12:02

Investigation into Mafia control of Italian windfarm biz

In Sicily, even the wind turbines are silent

5 May 11:32

Study finds IT heads not interested in power saving

Power saving is in sleep mode...

30 Apr 09:52

Jobs bloodbath at Brit, Danish wind turbine factories

Offshore wind offshored

29 Apr 13:32

Prince of Wales extends Thermageddon deadline

Chances of him becoming king increase fractionally

29 Apr 13:24

Greens: Telcos must share cell towers to save on CO2

Gathering low-hanging fruit with tweezers

27 Apr 10:57

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