Petrol price rewards the polluter!

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%.

Wars of agression and torture

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.

Future Heating install Genersys solar at Kings College Hospital

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.

Blair’s religion, Iraq and weapons of mass destruction

Why did Tony Blair decide to commit the United Kingdom to war against Iraq?

Renewable Energy – Pay As You Save

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.

Mr Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize

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.

Mr Darling’s support for the environment

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.

Best to ignore Copenhagen for the next two weeks

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.

Oceans and carbon sequestration

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.

No change at Copenhagen

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.