Have we reached a turning point in the carbon war?

Madeleine Cuff
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Jeremy Leggett's latest book offers the inside track on the last two years of climate and energy politics - and leaves you daring to hope that we may be starting to win the battle against climate change

More than 60 years ago, in the arid desert basin of the Chuckwalla Valley, California, a battle was underway. Well, a mock battle, staged by US army commander General George Patton to prepare more than...

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