An emissions loophole worthy of Wolf J Flywheel

Recent research has confirmed my own opinions, which I set out in “the Energy Age” about emissions and the Kyoto Protocol. I have consistently argued that trying to reduce emissions by developed countries while allowing under developed and developing countries to continue to grow provides a large emissions loophole, because developed countries have exported their [...]

Why are British Banks so bad at banking

Why are British banks so spectacularly unsuccessful? It strikes me that in the United Kingdom our bankers have been so much worse at their business than bankers in other developed countries. I shall explain. The banking collapse affected all large banks in all developed countries. Most large banks had to be “bailed out” directly or [...]

The latest research on what is happening to our climate

The last major Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report was in 2007. The IPCC compiles its reports in the form of fair (they try anyway to be fair) summaries of scientific papers that have been published on climate change and been subject to peer review. Since then, many research papers have been published on some [...]

Montana’s coal

Peering into the future of global warming means that you have to guess about the future greenhouse gas emissions that humanity will create. About 60% of all greenhouse gas emissions are made from burning fossil fuel. If emissions from fossil fuel burning were reduced by 80% the overall emissions of greenhouse gas – mainly carbon [...]

Iceland votes no; quite right too!

If the banking crisis has cost the British a huge amount of money, then it is worth the British thinking just how much the Banking crisis might cost the Icelanders. There are only a quarter of a million Icelanders but because Iceland owned banks failed last year (and a big failure it was too) people [...]

The old lie

A thing that made me sad today was to hear Gordon Brown say how sad loss of life makes “us”, presumably the royal plural.

What if we are wrong about climate change?

After the failure of Copenhagen and the massive publicity about some unsubstantiated climate change predictions, the climate change scientists seemed to have retired temporarily, licking their wound. We have not seen many rebuttals of the sceptics’ point of view.

Making flying more energy efficient – possibly and in the future

One of the stories that crept under my personal radar a couple of week ago related to aircraft engines. Aircrafts account of 2% of the greenhouse gas emissions. The impact of this figure is thought to be higher because the emissions are expelled at height, where they can do the most absorption of light energy. [...]

Green mortgages are coming to England

I heard the Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband, speak on BBC radio about the possibility of bringing in “green mortgages” – loans for green energy technology. Genersys has been part of the Mexican Government’s green mortgage program for about a year now, under which the government provides long term loans that are paid out of the [...]

Record Profits for British Gas in 2009

British Gas, (a part of Centrica) made record profits in 2009 of nearly £600 million. British Gas has more than half the United Kingdom residential natural gas market with 15 million customers. Executives and spin merchants at British Gas have been looking for ways to justify this level of profits over a year when the [...]