When the Arctic was rich in food
Filed under: climate change, global warming | Tagged: alan kemp, Arctic, arctic ocean, diatoms, food chain, National Oceanography Centre | 1 Comment »
Mr Miliband’s climate change ambitions
Posted on July 10, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Every few months the leaders of the Group of 8 industrialised nations (USA, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United Kingdom) meet. They call themselves the G8. The purpose of each meeting is to fix the world’s problems. It is nothing to do with the leaders getting some excellent publicity so that they [...]
Filed under: carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, Coal, energy, global warming | Tagged: climate change statements, climate change targets, coal burning power stations, DECC, e.on, Ed Miliband, G8, justine thornton, Kingsnorth | Leave a Comment »
Putting the planet on course to avoid climate change
Posted on July 9, 2009 by robertkyriakides
If you put the words “carbon trading” into the blog search engine you will see that I have been consistently critical of carbon trading in this blog since December 2007. I have critically written about carbon trading many times since I started these posts. I have taken the view that it is a waste of [...]
Filed under: carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, carbon trading, climate change, energy, global warming | Tagged: climate policy, economic growth, Energy Age, How to Get Climate Policy Back on Course, Imperial College, kaya identity, the London School of Economics, the University of Oxford | 5 Comments »
The sunspot theory of climate change
Posted on July 8, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Sunspots, some claim, are the cause of the earth’s climatic changes, not the carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that humans pour into the air every day. What is the evidence for this claim?
Filed under: carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, global warming | Tagged: Edward Maunder, Gustav Sporer, john dalton. manchester, sun spots, sunspots, the little ice age, the sun as a climate forcing | 19 Comments »
Willie Walsh’s airline emissions
Posted on July 7, 2009 by robertkyriakides
When an important member of a highly polluting industry suggests that the industry should be taxed on its carbon emissions it is not usually because that there has been a conversion, similar to that on the road to Damascus. It is usually about damage limitation or spin.
Filed under: carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, electricity, fuel, global warming, transport | Tagged: airline emissions, aviation, aviation emissions, BA, british airways, global tax on emissions, tax on aviation fuel, willie Walsh | 1 Comment »
Talking about climate change endlessly
Posted on July 6, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Since Mr Obama was elected President it is now the case that every leader of each major industrial or developed country in the world agrees that climate change is a serious threat and that we ought to cut back greenhouse gases created by humans by 80% before 2050 and hold the temperature rises caused by [...]
Filed under: carbon emissions, climate change, global warming, microgeneration, parliament, renewables, Tony Blair | Tagged: climate change policy, world climate change policy | Leave a Comment »
Spotting solar systems
Posted on July 5, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Why you see lots of solar systems in Germany
Filed under: climate change, microgeneration, PV, renewables, solar, solar energy, solar panels | Tagged: erman subsidies for solar, subsidies for solar | 8 Comments »
Solar systems and solar geysers in South Africa – a real no brainer
Posted on July 4, 2009 by robertkyriakides
If common sense governed the affairs of people South Africa would be one of the world’s leading markets for solar thermal technology and there would be a solar system on every roof in that great republic.
Filed under: carbon dioxide, climate change, Coal, electricity, energy, global warming, solar, solar energy, solar panels | Tagged: average energy costs in south africa, eskom, payback of solar geysers, savings from solar geysers, soalr geysers, South Africa | 5 Comments »
Efficiency in Solar Thermal Panels and their testing
Posted on July 3, 2009 by robertkyriakides
How to understand efficiency in solar thermal panels and comparisons of tested panels for the US market
Filed under: climate change, global warming, solar, solar energy, solar panels, weather | Tagged: Efficiency in Solar Thermal Panels, overheating in solar panels, overheating in solar systems, solar panel test results | Leave a Comment »
Energy independence and freedom
Posted on July 2, 2009 by robertkyriakides
I have written a great deal about energy from the climate change perspective. This has roused, from time to time, the ire of climate change deniers, who have often not bothered to read my views but argue against opinions that I do not hold. However, in all the arguments of those that think that climate [...]
Filed under: carbon dioxide, climate change, climate change deniers, Coal, energy, gas, global warming, nuclear energy, oil, solar panels, wind turbines | Tagged: climate change deniers, energy dependence, energy independence, sovereignty | 3 Comments »
