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 11, 2008 by robertkyriakides
On Friday morning I heard Gordon Ramsay talk on the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 about banning out of season fruit and vegetable imports. He also suggested fining chefs who use out of season produce. Mr Ramsay, who is a highly successful chef and businessman, thinks that it is terribly important to have a [...]
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Posted on May 10, 2008 by robertkyriakides
Over a hundred thousand souls have lost their lives in Burma as a result of a cyclone. Many more are likely to perish in the aftermath when diease arrives in the wake of the devastation of the infrastructure.
A tropical cyclone is an event of extreme weather. They can happen frequently but a cyclone with [...]
Filed under: Flooding, carbon emissions, climate change, global warming, weather | Tagged: Burma, cyclones, how cyclones are caused, hurricanes, irrawaddy delta, Katrina, mangroves, Nargis, rice paddies, shrimp farms, typhoons | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Flooding, PV, climate change, electricity, energy, gas, global warming, heat, microgeneration, renewables, solar, solar energy, solar panels, weather, wind turbines | Tagged: capital cost, decentralised energy, energy self sufficiency, Mythe, Walham | 3 Comments »
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 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 May 1, 2008 by robertkyriakides
Farmers have always worked hard to improve their farm production. There has been a constant process of improving yields and productivity but often this has taken farming in places that it is better not to visit, with chemicals enhancing yields from crops and animals, sometimes with adverse effects on humans and on the animals that [...]
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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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