Comment on climate
Comment on climate
Quick responses to issues in the media, comments on events and other timely remarks.
This blog is a response to a series of personal accusations made by Peter Lilley in his piece Britain can’t afford to surrender to the greens on shale gas; published in the Spectator, May 2013. Rather than using the opportunity…
why the near-collapse of Europe’s carbon-trading scheme could be good for reducing emissions A pdf of coaxing the mitigation phoenix is also available The past fortnight has been a time of considerable disquiet for those who consider carbon trading generally…
(the arguments outlined in this commentary apply equally to any politician, civil servant, journalist, NGO or business leader calling for stringent mitigation) The commentary is also available as a pdf: Hypocrites in the air and is now a chapter in Beyond Flying From…
As the UK government establishes an Office of Unconventional Gas and Oil, Secretary of State for energy and climate change (Ed Davey) claims shale gas development is compatible with the UK’s international 2°C commitments; Tyndall Centre researchers disagree! Yesterday (11…
The following is in reply to Robert Wilson specifically and some of the other blogs more generally (see Carbon Counter) 1. Robert suggests the term power station is commonly understood to refer to the number of reactors on site; hence he…
Further to my response to Sue Ion’s comparison of nuclear and wind turbine output, there was some disagreement on Carboncounter as to the numbers I had used. I take the view that this disagreement is unjustified, with my reasons outlined…
Pdf version of the full comment is available at Response to Sue Ion on wind turbine numbers In BBC Radio 4’s the Life Scientific (Tuesday 26th February), Jim Al-Khalili interviewed the former technical director of British Nuclear Fuels, Sue Ion. This is a response…