Posted on November 5, 2008 by robertkyriakides
It can be hard to picture things of complexity. The old puzzles about how long it takes if three people dig a hole if A works twice as hard as B but C works 30% of more than A but goes to have a cup of tea for half an hour etc, need (for most of us) pencil and paper to [...]
Filed under: carbon emissions, climate change, energy, global warming, gordon brown, heat, targets | Tagged: climate change bill targets, climate puzzles, credit crunch, energy balance, proportion of emissions naturally sequestrated, radiative forcing, stabilising carbon emissions, stocking up with carbon, targets | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 5, 2008 by robertkyriakides
We all know when energy prices rise. We pay more when our utility bills arrive and more when we fill up our cars at the pump. This is real life expenditure, mostly non discretionary for which we have to budget in difficult times when most of us have little chance of increasing our earnings as [...]
Filed under: carbon emissions, climate change, electricity, energy, heat | Tagged: average price rise for energy in Europe, average price rise for energy in UK, dergulated energy, energy prices, Energy Retail Association, free markets, OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, privatised energy companies, profit motivation, utility bills | Leave a Comment »
