Greenhouse gas emission statistics

When we talk about greenhouse gas emissions we do not always understand which greenhouse gases are most important and the sources of emissions. The following information comes from the World Resources Institute

The need to fail at Copenhagen

“It is realistic to say that in Copenhagen we will not be able to conclude a treaty,” said Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany recently. She is right to be realistic. Should we be depressed by her pessimism? I do not think so. A climate change treaty concluded in the next few months would hardly be [...]

Governments will not make hard decisions to protect the climate at Copenhagen

You will see headlines and hear news items to the effect that there is only so many days (just over a month now) to get a climate protection “deal” at Copenhagen. There the nations of the world will meet in order to try and reach agreement as to the best way to protect the climate [...]

Signing up to targets at Copenhagen will be meaningless

As the world’s nations prepare to negotiate at Copenhagen in December the specific negotiators will be concentrating on targets. Each major nation will have a different idea about which target is right for it, and each small nation will have more ambitious targets than each large nation.I expect that at the end of the negotiations [...]

Professor’s MacKay’s nuclear vision

It is difficult for a nation to plan its energy requirements for the future and that difficulty is made harder when that nation cannot decide upon a settled energy policy. In the United Kingdom there are so many conflicting policy proposals that I despair of the United Kingdom ever establishing an energy policy which secures [...]

Energy Perfomance Certificates – measuring the wrong things!

Energy Performance Certificates are part of Home Information packs and perhaps they were the rationale for Home Information Packs. The idea was to build a database of the energy performance of homes across the United Kingdom so that at some stage, no doubt when it was too late a cynic would argue, the government could [...]

Climate change advertisement – is it truthful?

The United Kingdom Government has spent six million pounds on a television advertisement about climate change which warns of the dangers of manmade global warming. The advertisement will run for a few months. I doubt if it will save any emissions. The six million pounds is more than has been allocated to help householders to [...]

Fuel bills and bankers bonuses

If you live in the United Kingdom and do not have any form of microgeneration, such as solar panels, you are now paying more for your household energy than ever before. Since we founded Genersys in 2000 household energy bills have risen by 88%. Gas bill have risen by 120% and electricity bills by 48% [...]

Climate change migration

Dr Cecilia Tacoli, a researcher at the International Institute of Environment and Development, has published a paper in which she holds that there are misconceptions and alarmism about the effect of climate change on population movements. She thinks that many of us overestimate the likely population migrations because we do not understand how mass migration [...]

The financial logic of solar water heating

Various official consumer bodies think that the average home energy bills will reach £2,000 or more in a few years time. There are very few ways that you can pay less for your energy. You may insulate your home to a high standard, turn down the thermostat, switch off the lights, use low energy bulbs, [...]