Why complain about the cost of climate change measures?

There is one part of the arguments used by those against climate change measures that I do not understand. I can understand many of their arguments and many arguments have force, but the one area which leaves me puzzled is that those against climate change measures often most vociferously complain about is that of cost.

Greenhouse gas emission statistics for the UK

Today I shall tell you about the good news and the bad news. First, there is the good news. According to the methodology accepted by the Kyoto Protocol for calculating greenhouse gas emissions of the six greenhouse gases recognised by Kyoto, the United Kingdom has reduced is greenhouse gas emissions between 2007 and 2008.  Now [...]

The latest UK energy figures

The United Kingdom has for the past ten years used fairly consistently the same amounts of energy each year. The government when it publishes the figures adjust them for the average temperature in the UK between 1971 and 2000. In each of the years the adjustment has led to a higher theoretical use of energy [...]

Do the wheels on the bus go round and round?

Ignorance is a thing that wastes everyone’s time. I learnt of a solar panel company that exclusively used Genersys solar panels that were asked by the Advertising Standards Authority to prove that the solar panels that they use “worked in cloudy conditions”.  To a layman this might at first sound reasonable enough, but to anyone [...]

The UK needs immediate constitutional reform

We need constitutional reform with checks and balances on the power of the executive.

Confound those politics

It seems that politics will not permit the spending of money on say solar energy unless it is “cost effective” which means “cheaper than fossil fuel energy” on a direct immediate basis.

We are apparently too unsophisticated politically to take account of the fact that solar energy may well save our planet and all that live on her from catastrophic climate change.

Is Chile the barometer of the planet?

Chile is a prosperous, sophisticated country, abundant in many natural resources. It produces half of the world’s copper, high quality fruit and in its Central Zone, where most people live, Chile enjoys a moderate and comfortable climate which enables Chileans to grow some of the finest wines in the world and export some of the [...]

Look at the world and look at the numbers

Statistics about the planet

Solar grants for not for profit organisations

Get 50% grant on the cost of a solar thermal ssytem for your school, college, hospital or organisation

Biofuels and their environmental effects

Minnesota was the first state in the USA to pass a law requiring ethanol to be mixed with vehicle fuel. It has a large agricultural industry, so it was logical to tie its own industries with a fuel source that was thought to be environmentally positive. It environmental record on other matters is good – [...]