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Truth and Fantasy in Our Net Zero World
Government,Energy,Housing,Nuclear,Net Zero
October 26, 2021
In this short-lived breathing space between last week's Net Zero barrage and next week's CoP26 frenzy, it seems timely to reflect on how it all stacks up so far. After months of delay, Boris Johnson and his fractious Ministers finally moved into warp drive in issuing their Net Zero Strategy.
The Conundrum that is BECCS (Part 3 of a 3-part blog)
August 29, 2021
At its simplest, Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) sounds like the go-to climate solution: convert your coal or gas-fired power station to burn biomass. Source that biomass from fast-growing ‘sustainable forests’, with as many new carbon-sequestering trees planted as are cut down –…
Carbon Capture and Storage: Predatory Delay Laid Bare (Part 2 of a 3-part blog)
Built Environment,CCS,Hydrogen
August 26, 2021
Back in 2018, Alex Steffen first coined the notion of PREDATORY DELAY, with reference to companies and investors who make all the right noises about addressing climate change or ecological collapse, but continue to extract profits from wholly unsustainable and increasingly destructive economic…
CCS: A Devious and Damaging Distraction (Part 1 of a 3-part blog)
August 24, 2021
For as long as I can remember, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) has been promoted as a way of making it possible for us to go on using fossil fuels without further destabilizing the climate. By capturing the emissions of from the combustion of these fossil fuels BEFORE they're released into the…
They Knew
Climate Change,USA,Young People,CCS
August 24, 2021
For the last six years, I’ve been following the labyrinthine proceedings of an American court case known simply as ‘Juliana v. United States’. The Plaintiffs are 21 young people who are suing their Government for violating their constitutional rights in ignoring climate change, and thereby…
USA and China Join Battle for Net Zero Gold Rush
June 23, 2021
Listen out: ‘The American Jobs Plan will unify and mobilise the country to meet the two great challenges of our time: the climate crisis and the ambitions of an autocratic China.’ So said Joe Biden’s Press Secretary on 31st March, unveiling his new American Jobs Plan – in all its $2tn glory! That…