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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
George Monbiot

Monbiot's web picks

AFP - Czech president attacks Al Gore
Someone has let Vaclav Klaus out again, with even worse consequences than last time. He is to climate change what Thabo Mbeki was to HIV/AIDS. But at least Mbeki changed his tune when confronted with overwhelming evidence that he was wrong. Klaus carries on regardless.

Solsbury Hill - Chronicle of a road protest
Here are some stunning pictures by my old colleague Adrian Arbib of the protest which became the turning point in the anti-roads campaigns of the 1990s. The scuzzy, painted, barely civilized pariahs they show became the public face of the biggest environmental conflict of the decade. We lost this battle, but we won the war.

Realclimate.org - Warm reception to Antarctic warming story
A smart and quite witty takedown of the latest deniers' gibberish. It illustrates the doublethink common to all climate deniers' discourse: that they will latch onto any evidence, however weak, that appears to support their cause, and dismiss any evidence, however strong, that doesn't.

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