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Net Zero Without Nuclear: the Case Against Nuclear Power
April 15, 2021
Even as the prospects for nuclear power continue to decline, the industry is spending more and more money seeking to persuade Governments, commentators and ‘gullible greenies’ that we’re going to need new nuclear power to get us to a Net Zero economy by 2050. I’ve spent the last six months looking…
Why I really didn’t like Bill Gates’s ‘How to Avoid a Climate Disaster’
Climate Change,Energy,Nuclear,Book Review
March 13, 2021
So what are we to make of a guy who completely ignored climate change until 2006, only decided to ‘do more and speak out more’ in 2015, whilst continuing to invest huge sums of money in Big Oil and other carbon-intensive companies, has one of the most carbon-intensive lifestyles of any human being…
BP and Shell: Sinners into Saints?
March 2, 2021
‘BP and Shell are companies whose senior managers know, as an irrefutable fact, that their current business model threatens both the stability of the global economy and the longer-term prospects of humankind as a whole. Once knowledge of that kind has been internalised, for any individual, however…
2021: Make or Break For The UK’s Climate Strategy – instalment (C)
Climate Change,Government,Energy,Nuclear,CCUS
February 2, 2021
Both the Ten Point Plan and the Energy White Paper wax lyrical about the potential for CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage), using pretty much the same kind of language as Ministers and fossil fuel companies have been using since the mid-1990s when the technology was first deemed to be…
2021: Make Or Break For The UK’s Climate Strategy – instalment (B)
Climate Change,Government,Energy,Built Environment,Housing
January 31, 2021
If renewables is the UK’s strongest low-carbon suit, energy efficiency in the built environment is by far the weakest. It’s absolutely critical that the UK puts efficiency at the heart of its Net Zero ambition: the lower the total amount of energy required, the easier it becomes to meet that demand…
2021: Make or break for the UK’s climate strategy
Climate Change,Government,Energy
January 28, 2021
For all sorts of reasons, UK politicians do at last seem to have grasped that we are in the midst of an out-and-out Climate Emergency. Despite people’s worst fears that the whole climate agenda would be sidelined by the pandemic over the course of the last year, that just didn’t happen. Indeed, the…