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Only £100 million of the United Kingdom’s annual wealth (apparently less than 0.0083%) is spent on genuine renewable technologies. That is a sufficient sum to keep the BBC going for less than three hours.
Filed under: carbon emissions, climate change, energy, genersys, global warming, microgeneration, solar energy, solar panels | Tagged: Green New Deal, proportion of wealth Uk spends on green energy, economic stimulus and green energy | 3 Comments »
measuring emissions by estimates is at best highly intelligent guesswork
Filed under: Coal, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, electricity, energy, energy statistics, fuel, gas, global warming, oil, petrol, targets | Tagged: inventory methodology, margin of error in greenhouse gas emission statistics, National Statistics, targets, UK greenhouse gas emission statistics.National Statistics | 5 Comments »
Fifty years ago I used to read in comics and in books about visions of the future. Some visions frightened me; some could foresee a totalitarian control of people’s lives in western democracies where individualism and free though were sniffed out by the thought police, or books which had the wrong kind of writing were [...]
Filed under: carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change | Tagged: Arrhenius, fossil fuel burning, G20 protests, Orwell, visions of the past future | 3 Comments »
Oil that we find deep in the ground was laid down millions of years ago (it is thought by most geologists) by organic material, particularly algae and zooplankton which died and fell to the bottom of the sea. There over long periods of time the organic material was compressed and heated causing it to form [...]
Filed under: carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, energy, fuel, gas, global warming, natural gas, oil | Tagged: algae, carbon sequestration, formation of oil, Lohafex, seas, seeding the seas with iron, zooplankton | 3 Comments »
The best locations for these solar power plants are inevitably the most expensive
Filed under: carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, electricity, energy, fuel, global warming, targets | Tagged: california soalr power plants, California Valley Solar Project, Carrisa Plains soalr power plants, Carrizo Energy Solar Farm, location of soalr power plants, Topaz Solar Plant | 8 Comments »
It is critical that we direct effort to halt climate change and future fuel shortage in accordance with accepted scientific principles.
Filed under: climate change, electricity, energy, global warming | Tagged: cold fusion, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, scientific research, thermodynamics | 6 Comments »
..there are very small amounts of this gas in the atmosphere (less than 1.5 parts per trillion) it has been discovered that it is 4,800 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and that it stays in the atmosphere for about 36 years..
Filed under: climate change, global warming, ozone | Tagged: food preservation, food safety, fumigants, fumigation, greenhouse gases, methyl bromide, new greenhouse gas, ozone depletion, sulfuryl fluoride | 3 Comments »
The formal creation of a series of special days on which we are supposed to behave in an environmentally acceptable way (or in the case of one of the Earth Days just an hour) shows how far we must travel in our minds and in our behaviour to create a better and benign environment.
Filed under: carbon emissions, climate change, global warming | Tagged: Bike to work day, earh day network, earth day, world days, world wetlands day | 4 Comments »
