Climate Stalemate: Uncle-Twinkle Dialogue on Planetary Politics – Part 5 Uncle: So, Twinkle, I am not sure if we should worry more about the science part of the climate crisis or the politics part of it? Twinkle: Uncle, I feel like “It’s the politics, stupid!”  The climate crisis is very much here. No amount of networking, speaking, writing, researching, and[Read More…]

Planet on the Boil: Twinkle-Uncle Dialogue on Climate Stalemate Uncle: Among all these A-B-C-D’s where exactly are we, Twinkle? Twinkle: Uncle, we do and must take an unambiguous and uncompromising position that the climate crisis is a real and direct threat to our common home, the Earth. There are huge fault lines in the debate as we have already discussed.[Read More…]

Planet on the Boil: Twinkle-Uncle Dialogue on Climate Stalemate Uncle: And how about the D’s, Twinkle? Twinkle: They are the Deniers, uncle. These conservative elements deny the very existence of the issue. For example, one Wag TV made a 90-minute documentary called ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ for Britain’s Channel 4. According to the channel, manmade climate change was “a[Read More…]

Planet on the Boil: Twinkle-Uncle Dialogue on Climate Stalemate Uncle: There are varied and different opinions about the climate crisis. How do we understand these differences, Twinkle? I hear, the greenhouse effect was discussed by the French mathematician Joseph Fourier some two hundred years ago. Most recently the Nobel Prize for Physics for 2021 was awarded to climatologists Syukuro Manabe[Read More…]

[1] Climate Change, or Climate Destruction? Uncle: Twinkle, what do you think about the whole climate crisis that we are facing now? Twinkle: What can I say, uncle? But I am glad you call it “climate crisis”. Some call it innocuously as “climate change”. Is it a slight CHANGE that we are encountering now? Uncle: No way, this is systematic[Read More…]