Category: Climate Change
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Ukraine, The Middle East And Climate Change
When discussing tackling climate change, it is important to realize the role of fossil fuel in geopolitical power struggles. One of the reasons that reducing reliance on fossil fuel to combat climate change is the strategic advantage of controlling oil supply.
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Carbon Capture – Or Keep It In The Ground
Burning 1 litre of octane would produce 1,100 litres of carbon dioxide. Since CO2 is only a small fraction of the atmosphere, you would have to process 2,600,000 litres of air to remove it.
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Food Endgame: The Corporate Take Over Of Our Food System
As the world hurtles to climate catastrophe with little sign of abatement, large corporations and governments are ‘climate-proofing’ their food security with large corporate consolidation […]
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Does Heat From Power Plants Contribute To Global Warming
The reasons for this post is that I have seen several comments about whether the heat from power plants contributes to global warming. The answer […]
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Don’t Waste Heat
While few people who try and buy products with energy rating of A or even A++ many of us live in housing rated C or […]
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Agricultural Work
Some people may argue that “this is not the time to talk politics” which I have covered here. This post is not saying that the […]
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The Problem With Trend Lines
This is just a quick post to highlight some of the problems with over interpreting trend lines. These problems can occur in various place but […]
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Plastic – A Waste Of Energy
One of the reasons for doing this calculation is because many people do not realise the energy they use by ‘consuming’ various products and their […]
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The Climate Change Emergency
The following was written by Emma Bateman as part of our response to Lowestoft Council declaring a Climate Emergency1. Most of the information in it […]
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Air Travel Adverts On Facebook
I quite often get adverts for air travel on my facebook page so I post comments about the impacts of flying has on the environment. […]
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The Science Of Climate Change
A short talk by Peter Lux to give you a better understanding about the science and some of the effects of climate change. This will […]
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Too Many People
People have often told us ‘well there are just too many people in the world’. While population growth is important it cannot be used to […]
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Correlation Does Not Prove Causation
One of the statements that is often quoted is ‘correlation does not prove causation’. That means just because two things seem to go up or […]
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Nuclear Power: Systemic Risk And Climate Change
Summary Humanity faces a large number of challenges in future decades including increasing population leading to increased competition for dwindling resources and climate change. These […]
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When You Heat Things Up They Do Not Necessarily Get Hotter
Let us start by looking at a couple of examples. First of all you take a pie out of the freezer and put it in […]
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Is Climate Change Based On Computer Models?
The idea of greenhouse gases such as CO2 is causing climate change is based on fundamental physics and chemistry and not on elaborate computer models. […]
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Climate Change: It is the extremes that kill rather than the average
A lot of the information give about the affects of climate change are about what happens to the average temperature, the average rainfall etc. However, […]
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The Difference Between Weather And Climate
I have had people say to me on many occasions “if they cannot predict tomorrows weather how can they predict climate change”. This is a […]
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The Size Of The Atmosphere
I have had several discussions where people have said that the atmosphere is so enormous that man could not affect it. When you look up […]
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The Earth should emit as much energy as it receives from the Sun
This is something that I wrote quite a while ago. Basically the Earth has to emit as much energy as it receives from the Sun […]
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