Posted on December 16, 2009 by robertkyriakides
The United Kingdom’s economy is in recession at the moment – that means that the size of the economy is shrinking. However, inflation is rising and the consumer price index rose to 1.9% in November and the Retail price index also rose (for the first time to 0.3%. Read more »
Filed under: cars, climate change, global warming | Tagged: average petrol prices since 1983, inflation, oil prices, petrol prices | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 15, 2009 by robertkyriakides
If ordinary people commit what appears to be a crime the whole force of the law and all its agencies are devoted to bring the accused person to trial, at which his or her guilt or innocence may be established. If a politician is accused of committing a crime you will normally find that nothing is done about it, until that politician has completely lost favour with the electorate and an opponent wants to make political capital out of a trial. Read more »
Filed under: Tony Blair | Tagged: Binyam Mohamed, irag war, torture, wars of agressions | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 14, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Hospitals are often a series of sprawling buildings, built at different times in different designs to serve different purposes. Like many critical operations they have to plan so as to ensure that all the things that they need are there; one thing hospitals need in abundance is energy. Read more »
Filed under: Climate Change and health, climate change, energy, genersys, solar energy, solar panels | Tagged: future heating, hospitals and energy, kings college hospital, Lister | 3 Comments »
Posted on December 13, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Posted on December 12, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Mr Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change has claimed that the United Kingdom has taken the lead in the world by instituting a pilot study under which 500 homes are taking trials under a “Pay As You Save” programme, which is seeing whether renewable energy products can be installed under a PAYS scheme and whether that would be attractive to householders. Read more »
Filed under: carbon dioxide, climate change, energy, global warming, microgeneration, renewables | Tagged: Ed Miliband, pay as you save, pilot programme | 2 Comments »
Posted on December 11, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Mr Obama was elected to the office of president of the United States just over a year ago and he assumed office, as is the way in America, at the end of January this year. He has been continuing the wars that his country, together with many other countries, are fighting in Iraq and in Afghanistan; it should be said that if Mr Obama withdrew American forces from these places American Allies would probably be the first to leave with an alacrity that would surprise those who have been following the military events. However, while Mr Obama keeps the USA in these wars then the wars will go on, supported probably unwillingly and certainly half heartedly, by America’s allies. Read more »
Filed under: George Bush | Tagged: afghanistan, iraq, nobel peace prize, Obama | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 10, 2009 by robertkyriakides
When Alistair Darling was in charge of the Department of Trade & Industry he, together with Peter Truscott and the Department’s civil servants conceived a programme to incentivise the use of micro generated renewable energy which did, in my judgement as someone who runs one of the United Kingdom’s few microgeneration industries, did more harm than good and acted as a disincentive to the installation of microgeneration. Read more »
Filed under: Alistair Darling, climate change, electricity, global warming, microgeneration, renewables | Tagged: peter truscott, pre budget statement 2009 | 4 Comments »
Posted on December 9, 2009 by robertkyriakides
There are many regular readers of these posts and I imagine that most of them will be climate weary by now with all the reporting of the events at Copenhagen as climate change sceptics and climate change believers jostle for the attention of the media. Many old facts with newly polished spin will be presented as novel findings of great pitch and moment, by both sides. Read more »
Filed under: United Nations Climate Change Conference, climate change, global warming | Tagged: copenhagen climate conference | 8 Comments »
Posted on December 8, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Professor Andrew Watson has published the results of an investigation into the absorption of carbon dioxide by the world’s oceans. The study was carried out by an international team of researchers who have tried to discover a more accurate method of seeing just how much carbon is absorbed into the oceans of the world.
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Filed under: carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, global warming | Tagged: oceans and carbon absorption, oceans and carbon sequestration, professor andrew watson | 4 Comments »
Posted on December 7, 2009 by robertkyriakides
I sometimes wonder about the world upon which we live. This weekend the newspapers, radio and television has been jammed full of climate change and of the importance of reaching agreement to limit emissions.
The way politicians talk about what they will do shrouds the truth which is that have not done very much at all. The solemn journalists sternly speak about climate change from their over heated studios powered by fossil fuel. Those who write about climate change also mainly miss the point. Read more »
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