A Sign of the Times

Hurricane Irene changed, as hurricanes do, into Tropical Storm Irene.  It started in the Leeward Islands, passed through the Eastern part of the United States and ended up in Canada, moving at speeds from eighty miles an hour to fifty miles a hour. Get used to hurricanes and storms becoming more frequent; they are a [...]

Cleaning up our Rivers

It is good to be able to report some positive news about the environment. There is not much of it around. However the news that British rivers were at their healthiest and least polluted for more than twenty years is good reason to celebrate.

Thoughts for a bank holiday

I always feel sadness when the August Bank holiday comes round. The summer is passing and the holiday marks its passing. The evenings are slowly but surely drawing in and the fruits and grains that were made in spring and grown in summer are almost ripe. Most mornings are misty, but the mist often banished [...]

Lousy salmon

When I was young salmon was a luxury and cheese a stable. Today salmon is cheap and cheese expensive. The reason why salmon is cheap today is the advent of salmon farming, carried out in many countries in the world. Millions of salmon are farmed, that is to say kept in pens which are quite [...]

Clouds – the great unknown in Climate Change Science

From little acorns might oaks grow and from tiny aerosol particles large clouds form, or so we thought. Little acorns still produce oak trees but recent research has cast doubt on our understanding of cloud formation.

Look before you leap or look before you push us

It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. Having been fiercely criticised for its handing out of sing use plastic bags the international supermarket chain Tesco came up with a bright idea; they would make their familiar free plastic bags biodegradable. Simple. They would add small amounts of metal to the plastic [...]

They are supposed to work for you

Just over a year ago I went to see my local MP. His name is Mike Freer and he is a conservative Member of Parliament for Finchley and Golders Green. He had just been elected as a first time MP having served Barnet Council previously.

The Climate Change Debate

There is always a debate about climate change. Sometimes the debate is loud and vigorous. At other times the debate is hard to hear above the alarums and excursions that are part of our lives in a rapidly changing economic world. There are two separate questions to the climate change debate. Traditionally these two questions [...]

Mis selling Photovoltaic Solar

Regular readers will know that I am one who believes that rapid climate change is a great danger to humanity, and that rapid climate change is created by the actions of humanity. They will also know that I am in favour of clean renewable energy, but not all renewable energy is clean and not all [...]

Investigating Energy prices

Regulators are supposed to regulate. In the case if energy companies the regulator is OFGEM and it has power to investigate so that regulation may be effective. In the past few months the energy companies in theUnited Kingdom, being in effect six retail suppliers of gas and electricity, have announced very large price increases, approaching [...]