Blowout week 30
I am on holiday for two weeks. And so expect fewer posts. Roger Andrews has the keys to the site and will be keeping an eye on things and maybe even posting a couple of posts. 35 stories this week …...
View ArticleHow to cut emissions, and how not to
The world's efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions began with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, were formalized in the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 and have since mutated...
View ArticleThree Nails in the Coffin of Peak Oil
Drill baby drill. This final slide depicts the very different attitudes to energy policy on either side of the Atlantic pond. The USA, still dominated by free market policies, private ownership of...
View ArticleThe Carbon Cycle: a geologist’s view
Since the beginning of the industrial revolution a total of 240GtC from human emissions have accumulated in the atmosphere while a similar amount has been sequestered by the non-permanent reservoirs of...
View ArticleElectricity Supply – Driven by Politics at the Customers’ Expense?
As a spokesman and lobbyist for the electricity sector for many years, I used to describe electricity supply as ‘vital’. But, that under-valued it and as Bill Shankly might have said, ‘Listen, it's...
View ArticleBlowout Week 193
This week’s Blowout feature article returns us to Scotland, where the evergreen government now proposes to ban petrol and diesel car sales by 2032. We follow with our usual mix of stories, including...
View ArticleCalifornia’s progress, or lack thereof, in cutting its emissions
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) recently published its 2018 inventory of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to which the state achieved its goal of cutting GHG emissions below 1990...
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