Bill Scott
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Bill Scott18 March 2024
Comparative Disadvantage
I read that the government's Department of Zero Energy and No Security [DOZENS] is thinking about slapping UK import taxes on Chinese battery EVs. It seems that they are thought to be far too cheap because of subsidies. Fresh from...
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Bill Scott15 March 2024
Put it in the Chat
Once upon a time, when there was a seminar you got up very early, spent a large amount of money on a train fare, and a few hours later you arrived having in the meanwhile tried mostly unsuccessfully to do...
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Bill Scott13 March 2024
An Uphill Struggle
Harold Williamson was a TV journalist well known for his interviews with children. One day he asked a young girl who she was painting, and she said, “God”. Williamson gently protested that no one knew what God looked like. “Well",...
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Bill Scott11 March 2024
What's a Green Job?
The International Labour Organization's pretty broad definition of green jobs is “decent jobs in any economic sector which contribute to preserving, restoring and enhancing environmental quality", so there should be lots of them around. But where are they? It's an...
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Bill Scott8 March 2024
Behaviour Change and Net Zero
I attended the I-SEE Sustainable Energy & the Environment Webinar: Behaviour change for net zero, last Tuesday. It was given by Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh of the University of Bath. Here's Lorraine's introduction: In this talk, I will argue that most...
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Bill Scott5 March 2024
The £28bn Question
Whilst I’ve not been obsessing about the £28bn that the Labour Party promised to borrow to invest in green matters every year in the next parliament, I’ve been trying to keep track of it; just as I’ve been wondering what...
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Bill Scott2 March 2024
Social Consent and Cognitive Dissonance
I hope that whoever is in charge of ensuring that the UK's climate change policy is both technologically sound and socially feasible is paying attention to what’s going on in Germany, France, Poland, Romania, The Netherlands and elsewhere where social...
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Bill Scott28 February 2024
A Poverty Premium on the Journey to Net Zero
I've been reading a new report [ Our Journey to Net Zero: understanding household and community participation in the UK’s transition to a greener future ] from the Institute for Community Studies and others, on the preparedness of UK households...
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Bill Scott24 February 2024
Catching the Eye
Here are a few of the stories that came across my desk(top) this week: Yanis Varoufakis explains in UnHerd why poor farmers across the EU are revolting, and what cannot be done about it. It begins: Manos, a sixth-generation farmer...
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Bill Scott21 February 2024
All models are wrong, but some are useful
I attended the I-SEE Sustainable Energy & the Environment Webinar, ‘The Science Behind Climate Models’, yesterday. It was given by Bill Collins, Professor of Climate Processes, Atmospheric Chemistry and Earth System Modelling at the University of Reading. Here's his blurb: We...