How Global Warming will make the British Winters Colder

I promised yesterday to explain how with global warming increasing at a rapid rate we might find some places, like the United Kingdom and North West Europe getting much colder than normal. It is possible (and probably likely) that global warming will leave a legacy of more and more snowy icy winters in the United [...]

Very cold winters and global warming

The Daily Express newspaper has recently mocked the existence of climate change and used as its “evidence” the present bitter weather. “As one of the worst winters in 100 years grips the country, climate experts are still trying to claim the world is growing warmer” proclaimed its front page lead story recently. It is said [...]

What happens to solar systems in very cold weather?

It has been the United Kingdom’s coldest night of the winter, and in some places in Scotland temperatures have fallen to twenty degrees below freezing. How, in these conditions, will thermal solar systems respond?

The Lehmann Chesshire Research Fund

The fuel poverty charity, National Energy Action, has announced the creation of a new research fund to honour Peter Lehmann and John Cheshire. This fund, called the Lehmann Chesshire Fund will help young academic researcher enquire into the alleviation of fuel poverty and will be administered by a committee under the chairmanship of Lord Whitty.

Heating, gas reserves and very cold weather

If I was completely isolated from the world (and fortunately I am not) I could often tell the weather by looking at the views on these pages. For the past week the most viewed item was http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/why-your-gas-condensing-boiler-may-stop-working-in-very-cold-weather/ which has been viewed by many people whose gas condensing boiler has stopped working, and from this I [...]

The old boiler “scrappage” scheme unfolds

If you have an old gas boiler one of the very oldest you may benefit from a new boiler “scrappage” scheme launched yesterday, which starts on 18th January. The scheme allows you to claim £400 rebate off the price of a new boiler installation from the government. There are a number of conditions that you [...]

Does Mr Darling live in the real world?

I sometimes wonder what planet Mr Alistair Darling, Chancellor of the Exchequer, lives on. He is surrounded by advisors, insulated from the real world. If he meets industrialists or business people, they will be the people who run massive conglomerates, who have their own agenda. He went to Lorreto School, nothing wrong with that, but [...]

How tax collection becomes a profit centre for energy companies

Npower have been widely criticised for handing out three million low energy bulbs to customers, who never asked for them. Ofgem has “expressed concern” and the Green Party have described this as “inexcusable”. This is one of those stories that are a little complex to understand, but when you do understand it you will appreciate [...]

Terrorism moves on

One of the reasons for not starting a war in Iraq was that it would recruit many people to the terrorist cause; Iraq was, under its former dictator, a place where terrorism did not thrive and was not encouraged because its aims directly competed with and were against that dictator.

On stopping on a cold winter’s night

It is a cold still night in January. There have been few things to write about the environment right now. The universities and learned journals do not publish much this time of the year and perhaps the world was made environmentally weary and climate careless by the recent spectacle of the leaders of one hundred [...]