There is now less than a month until the United States will elect their next President. In the past 8 years President Bush has gone out of his way to reject, suppress, and generally ignore action on climate change issues. During Bush’s years in office however, climate change has slowly risen on the national and [...]
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Climate Camp 2008
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Uncategorized, tagged CCS, Climate Camp, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Kingsnorth, Protest on 2 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This coming week, a few thousand people will be setting up the third annual Climate Camp, at Kingsnorth in Kent, to protest against the building of a new coal-fired power station in the near future.
The Climate Camp has already been set up in a field near Kingsnorth power station, and will be there all week, [...]
Support your local wind turbine
Posted in Climate Change, EU, Energy, Renewables, tagged Climate Change, Energy, EU, Renewables, Wind power, Wind turbine on 30 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wind. Great stuff. It blows around here and there (especially around the British Isles) and just waits for someone to come along and make electricity out of it. Brilliant.
But in the recent past we haven’t really been that bothered. Hans-Josef Fell (a German MP who was a driving force behind Germany’s Renewable Energy Sources Law) [...]
Biofuels are not the answer
Posted in Climate Change, EU, Energy, biofuels, tagged biofuels, Carbon dioxide, Climate Change, EU, Global Warming on 23 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Recently the Environmental Audit Committee group of MPs, led by the Conservative MP Tim Yeo, produced their report ‘Are Biofuels Sustainable?’ in which they tried to find out the answer to the title (1). Their conclusion? That there should be a moratorium on biofuels until “technology improves, robust mechanisms to prevent damaging land use change [...]
The China Excuse
Posted in China, Climate Change, Energy, UN, tagged , China, Climate Change on 13 December, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It has to be one of the most common things people say when discussing climate change issues. “But what about China? How can we really do anything about global warming when they are building twenty million new coal power stations a minute?”
Okay, I exaggerated slightly to make a point there, but we’ve all heard the [...]
