Problems with condensing boilers

The recent spell of cold weather in the United Kingdom now seems to be ending, just in time for Christmas. The cold north wind has blown away and there is no more snow in London, although many parts of the country will see a slow thaw. In this cold weather I get thousands of people [...]

How to reduce shipping and aviation emissions

The economics of living and the economics of business are the major barriers to preventing the climate from rapidly changing. Every household and every business tries to spend its money wisely and budgets for what it should spend. Installing solar panels at home or making energy efficiencies in a business cost money and even though [...]

Making energy policy fit for its purpose

Regular readers of these posts will know that I have argued that the energy policy of the United Kingdom is illogical and designed to act against the national interest as well as against climate change requirements. The existing policy does not protect consumers, does not deliver a safe and secure supply of energy and provides [...]

Putting Climate Change into Reverse

Predicting the future is a hazardous business. Many analysts employed by fund mangers to select stocks that are likely to rise or fall seem to have about the same level of success as a monkey throwing darts at the stock market page. There are some very lucky stock pickers and also some very unlucky ones [...]

Waging cyber war

We are so dependent upon computers and the internet these days. Evil minded people cause disruption and damage and censor our speech and writings by cyber warfare.  There is already an established form of cyber warfare perpetrated by people who invent and spread computer viruses. A whole industry is dedicated to combating viruses. However there [...]

The Public Interest in not hosting a FIFA World Cup

The 2018 FIFA World Cup will be held in Russia.  I am very pleased for the Russians who managed to present an excellent bid without any help from the Prime Minister, Prince William and David   Beckham or their Russian equivalents. England, which we were told had the best bid by the English, came fourth out [...]

Planting a tree for the future

The United Kingdom government has announced a new tree planting programme. It is not large, as tree planting programmes go, but it is specifically targeted and very welcome. Over the next four years a million trees will be planted in urban areas.

How to waste money

It is a cold, slightly below freezing day in London and despite the hard economic times people are still wasting money. I took this picture on the way to work and it shows three west facing houses in Welbeck Street. The house in the middle has plenty of snow on its roof, but its neighbours [...]

The United Kingdom’s lost decade on climate change

“The last 10 years have been a lost decade for renewables. Labour’s tragic legacy is that we are 25th out of 27 EU member states on renewables. We have been playing as amateurs when we should have been in the Premiership.” Mr Huhne, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change made this comments in [...]