All the candidates have now been announced. In my constituency, Sheffield Central the following are standing. Alison Clare Teal – Green PartyBarry Edmund James – IndependentChris Marsden – Socialist Equality PartyColin Arthur Ross – Liberal DemocratsJack Patrick Carrington – Yorkshire PartyJanice Silvester-Hall – Conservative PartyPaul Christopher Blomfield – Labour PartyPaul John Ward – Brexit PartyContinueContinue reading “The Climate Election”
Category Archives: Climate emergency
Citizen’s Assemblies
Citizen’s Assemblies are in the news. Boris Johnson has set the wheels in motion for a Citizen’s Assembly on the Climate Emergency. Sheffield City Council have also promised to instigate one to help advise the Council on the difficult decisions they will have to make to meet their goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2030.ContinueContinue reading “Citizen’s Assemblies”
Full Council Meeting October 2019
https://dl-edge-01.public-i.tv/fms/council/sheffield/sheffield02oct19_64019_en_GB_hd.mp4 Council Webcast. Scroll to 1.29 for the relevant section In the video you will see questions being posed to Sheffield City Council concerning the climate and ecological emergency and biodiversity. The questions were answered by Cllr Mark Jones who is the cabinet member responsible for the environment. He later sent a much more detailedContinueContinue reading “Full Council Meeting October 2019”
Some photos from the Northern Rebellion in Manchester
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Our politicians are failing us but the people are rising up!
It is now more than 7 months since Sheffield City Council declared a Climate Emergency. Some progress has been made. The Tyndall Report was commissioned and has shown that the Council need to reduce its emissions by 14% every year to reach the target of zero by 2030. They are working on a Citizens AssemblyContinueContinue reading “Our politicians are failing us but the people are rising up!”
Star missed a golden opportunity to educate readers about our overheating planet.
31st July 2019 Dear Editor Your front page on 26th July celebrated the hottest temperature recorded in Sheffield since 1882. It was treated as if 35.1 degrees C was to be warmly welcomed. It is in fact a dire warning of what is to come. The Star missed a golden opportunity to educate readers about our overheatingContinueContinue reading “Star missed a golden opportunity to educate readers about our overheating planet.”
Religions have a vital role in helping save the planet
27th July 2019 Dear Editor Having lost the debate about climate science Neville Martin has now moved on to religion (Star letters 20.7.19). If he has grandchildren I wonder if they will be comforted by his assertion that God is in control, so we needn’t worry about the destruction of our life support system. For thoseContinueContinue reading “Religions have a vital role in helping save the planet”
The Star must tell the truth about the Climate Emergency
Have you ever noticed a lump growing on your body? Maybe you’ve thought, it’s probably nothing, if I ignore it, it will go away. If you’ve been in that situation I sincerely hope you had a good friend who encouraged you to go to the doctors and get it checked out. Denial is a naturalContinueContinue reading “The Star must tell the truth about the Climate Emergency”
The Star has broken the readers charter
Our argument is not with Neville Martin, who is entitled to his misinformed view, but with the Sheffield Star for publishing such an outrageous headline. If a reader writes to you claiming measles jabs cause autism, will you make that your headline? If Benson Hedges writes to you saying smoking is good for health, willContinueContinue reading “The Star has broken the readers charter”
We now face an existential threat bigger than Nazi Germany
It was wonderful to see the Lancaster bomber fly over Sheffield. We need constant reminders of the sacrifices that both our armed forces and civilians made to ensure the defeat of the Nazis. But as well as looking back we also need to look to the future.We now face an existential threat bigger than NaziContinueContinue reading “We now face an existential threat bigger than Nazi Germany”
