Under the Climate Change Act (2008), every five years the UK government must compile and publish “its assessment of the risks and opportunities arising for the UK from climate change” [1]. The first of these reports was compiled in 2012
Response to Averil Macdonald’s Guardian article on women and fracking
Averil Macdonald is chair of UK Onshore Oil and Gas and emeritus professor of science engagement at the University of Reading. She was criticised for comments that suggested the reason women are less supportive of fracking is because they do