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In the past few years the amount of bad news about the environment has been gradually increasing. We have seen manmade disasters, such as the oil spillage in the Gulf of México and natural disasters such as floods and droughts. These have been well reported by the news media but the reports have stopped short [...]
Filed under: climate change, Flooding, global warming | Tagged: Arctic, oil spillage | 1 Comment »
Fifty years ago if you saw the most up to date land use map of the world, you would see huge swathes of land coloured dark green. There was dark green in the shape of a very large inverted “L” stretching around the Western part of equatorial Africa, and around the whole Amazon basin of [...]
Filed under: carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, global warming | Tagged: amazon drought, amazon forest fires, Amazon rain forest, tropical forests destruction | Leave a Comment »
Some nations are going to be more affected by climate change than others. You might immediately think of low lieing island nations like the Maldives, but the effects of climate change will also be felt in mountain nations, like Nepal. Nepal will need to spend a great deal in adapting its infrastructure and agriculture to [...]
Filed under: climate change, global warming | Tagged: climate change loan, Nepal | Leave a Comment »
Mr Herman Van Rompuy is the President of the European Council. I am tempted to add “not a lot of people know that”. Mr Van Rompuy is rightly concerned about the European Union’s energy infrastructure. Much of the grid need up dating and replacing and while there are good grid connections between some states there [...]
Filed under: carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, electricity, energy, global warming, renewables | Tagged: single European Energy Market | Leave a Comment »
UK energy prices continue to rise. EDF, a French owned company has just announced a 6.5% increase in gas and 7.5% increase in electricity prices with effect from 2nd March. Previously other energy companies have announced similar price rises within similar ranges.
Filed under: biomass, climate change, electricity, energy, fuel, gas, natural gas | Tagged: wood pellet prices | Leave a Comment »
In good times people get soft and forget that you must prepare for the worst while hoping for the best. All over the world people and governments have failed to prepare for the worst. As I write these words the fiercest cyclone ever to strike a heavily populated part of Queensland Australia is battering buildings [...]
Filed under: banking, climate change, global warming | Tagged: engineering, infrastucture and extreme weather, Queensland cyclone, roads and extreme weather, victorian engineering | 2 Comments »
I have for many years criticised the government for talking about the environment and reducing greenhouse gases, but failing to do much more than talk or set up talking shops and advice centres. In fact the talk has become boring to the majority of those who live in the United Kingdom. Talking about a problem [...]
Filed under: carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, Conservatives, global warming, Renewable Heat Incentive, renewables | Tagged: carbon sequestration, emissions trading scheme, Energy Savings Trust, EST, EST funding cuts, zero carbon homes | Leave a Comment »
The major economic indicators are pointing in different directions. Different places are showing different trends. What do they all mean?
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