The complex landscape of international economic and climate policy is critical to the future of UK manufacturing, jobs, and global carbon emissions.
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How many of us understand our electricity bills? Why is electricity more expensive than gas? How can we reform our bills? My latest blog reveals all.
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Who has the most power and influence to prevent climate change? In this blog I argue that systemic change is required to reduce our global human climate impact.
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How to spend £10,000? My latest blog.
Let’s say you are lucky enough to have won £10,000, or inherited it, or saved for it. What are the carbon emission associated with spending that money? What’s the best thing you could do for the Planet?
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Oh dear, 16 degrees centigrade yesterday in Stirling, the warmest November day in decades. Global warming is creeping up on us and on nature.
Sustainable Sicily? Volcanoes, drought, renewable energy, invasive species and emissions from flying.........read my latest blog.
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Communal lunch hall (with candles and flowers) along with 2500 attendees at the largest gathering of district heat professionals in the world, Odense, Denmark.
The Danes are diversifying their heat sources, including a 70 MW water sourced heat pump used when electricity prices are low.
Massive 5MW air source heat pump in Denmark, with water preheated by solar panels. Makes the system more efficient for large scale district heating.
It's always heartening to see that people will cycle with the right infrastructure and support. Copenhagen has similar weather to the UK.
Why do reedlings ( also known as bearded tits) look so sad?
#errol #ornithology
My first sighting of the glorious bearded tits, or reedlings, near the River Tay.
Amazing footage of boulders ejected from Stromboli volcano, rolling down 800m of scree and crashing into the sea.
#Stromboli #volcanoes #sicily #italy
One for the geographers! Stromboli, Italy. Apparently, humans emit 50x more CO2 than volcanoes.
I've made some updates following the comments from Ronald. Thank you.
My latest blog is on fossil fuel subsidies? What are they? Why can't we simply abolish them?
And please note that I have an improved secure website - you can now search all my climate blogs by keyword or category.
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It's wasp season at our compost heep. All part of the natural process.
Solar power is cheap and clean. Solar pv is the fastest growing energy source on the Planet and will soon become ubiquitous. In this blog I explain why.
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#solar #pv
New 'green bridge' over M8 motorway connecting Sighthill to Glasgow city centre.
UK's largest wind farm at Whitelee,near Glasgow. Count the turbines!
500 MW, 215 turbines.
Wasps do have a use. Pollinating my raspberries.
Here are my top 12 favourite Climate Quotes. Do you know any better ones?
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Visited #Whitelee today. 215 turbines, the largest onshore windfarm in UK. Impressive scale, but these turbines are 'small' by today's more powerful standards. New battery storage too. Innovation in action.
Electric car club, Edinburgh. Are car share clubs working? How can we encourage them?
Do they still burn peat?
Does the UK need 1.5 million new homes? www.carbonchoices.uk/index.php/bl...
Handa Island is full of moorland and seabirds (sorry, no zoom camera). Guillemot, puffin, razorbill, wheatear... Well done Scottish Wildlife Trust for eradicating egg eating rats.
Crawled into a sea cave near remote Lochinver and it was full of disgusting plastic rubbish, from boats I guess.
Good efforts by The Assynt Foundation to plant native trees on the walk in to Suilven.
Scotland: Beautiful, but ecologically degraded?
Is this an accurate description of Scotland? Are we really one of the most ecologically degraded countries in the world? Does rewilding offer hope?
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Newt at Flanders Moss raised bog. But lots of birch trees colonising naturally. Will they destroy this wetland?
#flandersmoss #naturescot
