James Nash

A record heat wave scorched Europe in August 2003, claiming an estimated 65,000 lives, more than 19 times the death toll from the SARS epidemic worldwide. Heatwaves claim thousands of lives each year, mostly affecting the elderly, the very young, or the chronically ill.

The European Union is imposing a ban on conventional light bulbs, replacing them with energy-saving bulbs. This article explores the cost of doing this to the tax payer and whether energy efficient lightbulbs really help in the fight against global warming.

A recent documentary aired on the UK's Channel 4 challenged the prevailing political understanding that global warming is caused by man-made activity. The documentary argues that it is in fact the sun that is responsible for the current changes in the Earth's temperature.

Many people are looking at other fuel options, such as, for example, diesel fuel. Ethanol is another alternative fuel option that can also save you some money at the pump.

The carbon offset industry is new and unproven, and there are some bad examples; if you are responsible for putting major CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, is it your your moral obligation to take them back out again?

When looking at the science of global warming, the facts don't seem to add up. That is what Christopher Monckton says in a two-part article that appeared in the UK's Sunday Telegraph.

In the global warming debate, there are essentially two broad camps. One believes that the science is settled, and that global warming is serious and man-made. The other believes that the science is far from settled, and that precious little is known about global warming or its likely effects.

As a consequence of global warming, sea levels are also expected to increase by 0.76 - 1.58 meters in the next century, which could cause flooding in key cities around the world such as New York.

The Bush Administration's report on global warming contains some crucial but awkward truths that neither George W. Bush nor his environmentalist critics want to confront. The Administration has sought to bury the report, and tried to misrepresent its most ominous conclusion.

Will polar bears make the leap into the next century? Recent studies project that if Arctic sea ice continues to disappear, so will the polar bear in much of its current range.