I have been reading Richard D North's blog – once again – having been absent from it for an inexplicably long while. Whilst it is wide-ranging, it seems to me to be particularly helpful on the politics of climate change. Certainly, I find that reading about what he does and doesn't know / think / believe about carbon and climate is helpful as I (again) try to sort out what I think myself. More on this follows, I suspect, now that I've rediscovered him.
It's a commonplace claim that the realisation of commercial nuclear fusion reactors is always around 20 years away. It seems to be no different today despite the huge increase in private sector cash flowing into development. What I didn't realise...
Did you see that Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, told an audience in London: “We have two years to save the world.” I didn't and am grateful to Dominic Lawson in The Times...
Here's a rather impassioned article from the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit [ECIU] about the significance of the UK's ~1% on-shore [*] contribution to global emissions. It's the Tesco argument. It essentially says that although 1% is small compared with...