Posted on May 12, 2008 by robertkyriakides
The trouble with modeling climate change is that there are so many models. It is important, of course, to do your best to see how the climate will change but that is so hard, so complex, that different models show different results. It is hard enough to predict next week’s weather accurately so we cannot [...]
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Posted on May 9, 2008 by robertkyriakides
One of the arguments that people deploy against solar system is the cost. Because they claim “you don’t need a solar system” the cost of a solar system should be treated as the cost as an additional appliance, a bit like the Energy Savings’ Trust curious concept that solar systems are lifestyle choices.
Some people think [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by robertkyriakides
In all the uncertainties about climate change one thing is very clear. In the United Kingdom we are experiencing more extreme weather and we are feeling the effects of extreme weather more extremely than ever. I think that what is happening is that climate change is having an effect on our environment in ways that [...]
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Posted on May 7, 2008 by robertkyriakides
Mr Gordon Brown’s recent speech was about climate change and as you would expect he tried to put a very positive emphasis on the government’s climate change policy. It is worth looking at the speech in detail so that we can fully measure the government’s climate change policy against a proper yardstick. I shall give [...]
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Posted on May 6, 2008 by robertkyriakides
Regular readers of these writing will recall that I have been critical of Business Secretary John Hutton’s call for a nuclear energy renaissance; I am sure that the nuclear industry cannot guarantee safe disposal of waste and I have also been sure that the carbon emission costs of nuclear are nowhere near as low as [...]
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Posted on May 5, 2008 by robertkyriakides
Everyone talks a good environmental game, but very few actually know the rules, so the standard of play is very poor indeed. In the United Kingdom we have a series of disconnected environmental “signals” and schemes and consultations.
We have to be dragged almost screaming by the European Union into any cogent environmental laws and [...]
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Posted on May 4, 2008 by robertkyriakides
I have already written about the effect of industrial farming on the environment. There are non-industrial ways of farming, when the farmers do not farm intensively – for example when they farm “organically” to Soil Association standards, but these ways still affect our environment.
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Posted on May 2, 2008 by robertkyriakides
Carbon capture or sequestration is an existing technology that works in a limited way. In the North Sea Norwegian oil has some of its carbon dioxide content sequestrated before the oil reaches the refineries, but I cannot imagine how it will be possible to remove carbon from fuel, because the carbon that is released by [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2008 by robertkyriakides
You can sue the pants off someone, but you cannot sue the wrapping off.
Yesterday I blogged about Tesco’s noble aspiration which was to help its customers tackle climate change. The way Tesco decided to help its customers tackle climate change was to label twenty items that it sells with a carbon footprint. There, job done! Tesco can [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by robertkyriakides
Knowledge is critical, for without knowledge we cannot make meaningful choices. Unfortunately when it comes to carbon emissions knowledge is fairly meaningless unless it is comprehensive. That is why when it comes to moderating our own carbon emissions behaviour we should accumulate our knowledge which should then help us in actions which concentrate on the [...]
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