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Behold the lesser celandine
As I write this, the first daffodil buds have burst and yellow floods the garden. Welcome as daffodils are as a sign of advancing spring, I’m no great fan of many of the cultivated varieties we have today – those...
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School censors science exam papers to remove offensive questions on evolution
A video report on the BBC, reports extraordinary goings-on in North London, where the tax-payer funded Yesodey Hatorah Girls' School has been removing questions on evolution from GCSE science papers before their students could answer them. The examination board in question,...
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A 20 20 20 Vision for Solar PV
I've written before about our own domestic solar pv generation (most recently here), which is now some 33 months into its life. To put our modest production (an average of around 11 units / day) into perspective, the UK's installed...
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So, who's afraid of shale gas?
I listened to Andrew Quarles, Technical Director of Cuadrilla, at the university last night, as he gave an I-SEE talk on his company's exploration for gas from the Bowland shales in Lancashire. For those wanting technical detail, and clarification around...
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Challenges of the 21st century: what is happening to the world?
This was the title of the talk by Professor Sir John Beddington, the government's chief scientific adviser, at Bath's Institute for Public Policy Research [IPPR] last month. His abstract was: Change in the 21st century is both fast and dramatic. Yet...
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Responsibility & Resilience: what the environment means to conservatives
This is the title of a recently published series of essays by the Conservative Environment Network. There are some notable contributors, including Roger Scruton, Richard Sandor, Stuart Rose, Michael R. Bloomberg, James Dyson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a Michael Gove. The...
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Well done Jamie Agombar – Inspiring Leader
I'm writing this on the last train from London (last night). Just been to the Guardian University Awards evening (celebrating excellence, creativity and innovation). Jamie Agombar, the NUS's ethical and environmental manager (and all round sustainability champion), was nominated in...
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A cool look at global warming
Reserve your seats now. The Lord Lawson of Blaby is coming to Bath to bad mouth the idea of climate change. Here is his "cool" Abstract: The long-known scientific fact that there is a greenhouse effect and that carbon dioxide...
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English Heritage unearths neolithic health and safety manual
When English Heritage was drawing up plans for its new Stonehenge visitor centre, authenticity was a key value. It was fortunate, then, that an exhaustive search of the archives from its digs at Durrington Walls revealed Neolithic stone carvings which...
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Update from chesil beach
From The Guardian, March 1st 2008 James Lovelock believes global warming is now irreversible, and that nothing can prevent large parts of the planet becoming too hot to inhabit, or sinking underwater, resulting in mass migration, famine and epidemics. Britain...
