Posted on December 3, 2009 by robertkyriakides
I have always admired those who have risked their lives and health to work in coal mines. I expect that they never did so out of choice but out of necessity. Working in mines is very dangerous and working with coal is very dangerous. There are dangers underground, dangers in the pollution and emissions of [...]
Filed under: Climate Change and health, Coal, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, energy, global warming | Tagged: aberfan. Pantglas junior school, national coal board, NCB, slag heaps | Leave a Comment »
Posted on November 28, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Apparently less than half the population of the United Kingdom thinks that climate change is a problem. I suppose that we can compare the positions that people take on climate change to positions that they take on religion. There are believers, atheists and agnostics. The climate change atheists and agnostics make up more than half [...]
Filed under: Climate Change and health, climate change, climate change deniers, global warming | Tagged: circumstantial evidence of climate change, climate change data, climate change is not a religion, smoking and climate change | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 6, 2009 by robertkyriakides
I have always thought that biomass power stations, like that one that is proposed in Port Talbot, are a mistake; they start from the premise that biomass is renewable and sustainable and that biomass power stations will ensure that the trees used are replaced with new planting. I do not think that it is as [...]
Filed under: Climate Change and health, PV, biomass, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, electricity, energy, microgeneration, solar energy, solar panels, wind turbines | Tagged: benzoa pyrenes, employment at port talbot power plant, Port Talbot, port talbot power plant, port talbot power station, Prenergy | 1 Comment »
Posted on August 25, 2009 by robertkyriakides
The United Kingdom Government has pledged that any new nuclear power plants will be built without public subsidy. If their pledge holds good it will be a relief to those of us running solar thermal businesses; traditional energy companies enjoy advantages that those in the renewable industry have never received.
Filed under: Climate Change and health, PV, climate change, electricity, energy, nuclear, nuclear energy, power, solar, solar energy, solar panels, wind turbines | Tagged: nuclear energy subsidies, nuclear power plants | 3 Comments »
Posted on July 22, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Santiago is the capital of Chile. It is a fine modern city with some very interesting architecture and a splendid pace of life which I have found very comfortable. Santiago, like the rest of Chile, suffers from high energy prices, a lack of energy independence and in the case of Santiago atmospheric pollution caused by [...]
Filed under: Climate Change and health, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, energy, fuel, heat, pollution, solar, solar energy, solar panels | Tagged: atmospheric polution, Chile, genersys launch, range rover on solar panel, santiago, soalr water heating | 5 Comments »
Posted on July 15, 2009 by robertkyriakides
The real problem that environmentalists face is not the climate change deniers. It is those who think that fossil fuel is cheap and plentiful and with harm. I do not mind those that deny man made global warming and climate change; it is a perfectly respectable view to take and one that has a respectable [...]
Filed under: Climate Change and health, PV, climate change, climate change deniers, energy, fuel, gas, global warming, heat, natural gas, nuclear, oil, solar, solar energy, solar panels | Tagged: Aberfan, costs of tarditional energy, hidden energy costs, Nicholas Stern, renewable energy deniers, wars for fossil fuel | 3 Comments »
Posted on June 11, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Air pollution and particulates – their cause and effect
Filed under: Climate Change and health, Coal, Travel, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, fuel, global warming, natural gas, pollution, rubbish, transport | Tagged: air pollution advisory guide, breathing, EU clean air requirements, lung capaicty in young people, particulates, poplar, puffer, thermal inversions, Tower Hamlets, UK air standards, US air standards | 3 Comments »
Posted on April 21, 2009 by robertkyriakides
In Sub Saharan Africa smallholders produce the vast majority of the food and cash crops cultivating 70% of the arable land and as much as 90% in Nigeria; how will they cope with climate change?
Filed under: Climate Change and health, Flooding, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, global warming | Tagged: climate change and food production, effect of more co2 on maize, effect on farm animals in trpoices by warmer climates, Maize Streak Virus. Cassava Mosaic Virus, Sub Saharan Africa smallholders, subsistence farmers, wheat and rice | 9 Comments »
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 »
Posted on March 6, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Twenty five years ago the British coal miners started a long strike. They did not ballot the union membership about the strike, and after twenty five years the causes of the strike, as stated at the time, now seem to be obscure. With the clarity and wisdom that hindsight brings, it now seems that the [...]
Filed under: Climate Change and health, Coal, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, energy, fuel, global warming, natural gas, oil, pollution | Tagged: amindos, asbestos, coal miners strike, coal mining, Cyprus, energy policy, mining, mining communities | 3 Comments »
