Posted on November 12, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Last week in Parliament the Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change was asked how the £5.8 billion that the Government would spend on renewable energy over the three years ended April 2011 was broken down.
It was a good question, asked by Greg Clark for two reasons;
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Posted on October 2, 2009 by robertkyriakides
One of the problems that will face the negotiators in Copenhagen at the end of this year is the problem of a nation creating its emissions elsewhere. If you permit emissions from a nation like the United States to be at a certain level, this begs the question of emissions created for the United States [...]
Filed under: United Nations Climate Change Conference, carbon emissions, carbon trading, climate change, fuel, global warming, renewables, tax | Tagged: emissions created in other countries, Professor MacKay, tax on fossil fuel | 2 Comments »
Posted on September 25, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Civil servants administer the policies of politicians. They break the policies down into what they regard to be a correct series of tasks and then work through the tasks, ticking boxes from their task check list. This way they achieve their objective through a series of small tasks and the series of tasks are a [...]
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Posted on September 12, 2009 by robertkyriakides
There is plenty of disbelief in the theory of human made climate change in the United Kingdom according to a survey by the University of Cardiff in Wales. It is not hard to understand the reasons for climate change scepticism.
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Posted on August 29, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Ten things that will make no difference to climate change
1. Carbon offsetting
Keep your money in your pocket.
2. Carbon Trading
You cannot use the principles of the casino to help the climate unless the house wins every time
3. The Clean Development Mechanism
No more than a good opportunity for free money for large corporations
4. Biomass burning
Keep the trees in [...]
Filed under: biofuels, biomass, carbon dioxide, carbon offsetting, carbon trading, climate change, energy, global warming, pollution | Tagged: Ten things that will make no difference to climate change | 2 Comments »
Posted on July 9, 2009 by robertkyriakides
If you put the words “carbon trading” into the blog search engine you will see that I have been consistently critical of carbon trading in this blog since December 2007. I have critically written about carbon trading many times since I started these posts. I have taken the view that it is a waste of [...]
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Posted on May 1, 2009 by robertkyriakides
The risks of burning coal and biomass are simply too great; we must stop the burning.
Filed under: biomass, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, carbon trading, climate change, energy, fuel, gas, global warming, heat, natural gas, oil, pollution, power | Tagged: bad burning, biomass burning, carbon sequestration ready, coal burning, coal fired power stations, emissions from coal, two degrees celsius | 4 Comments »
Posted on April 17, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Why the numbers of projects financed under the CDM are declining
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Posted on April 14, 2009 by robertkyriakides
After some years in negotiation and in development, the European Union has finally got its act together in making a renewable energy law by which all member states must abide. The law will come into effect when it is published in the European Union Journal.
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Posted on March 12, 2009 by robertkyriakides
It is one thing to lend your hose to your neighbour when his house is on fire, but what if your own house is also just starting to catch alight?
Filed under: Climate Change and health, Coal, Flooding, United Nations Climate Change Conference, biomass, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, carbon trading, climate change, energy, global warming, pollution | Tagged: climate change policy, consequences of consequences, flooding scenarios in Bangladesh and Florida and East Anglia, Kingsnorth Power Station, third runway at heathrow | 2 Comments »
