Over a decade ago in one of my very first posts in this blog, I responded to what appeared to be a working assumption in …
Category: Low carbon economy
Aviation futures
The aviation industry accounts for nearly one billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually against a global total in excess of 40 billion tonnes, which means …
In the shadow of Apollo
The recent 50th anniversary of the first moon landing brought with it many calls for an “Apollo Project” approach to address climate change. Such an …
Getting to net-zero emissions in the UK
Last week the Climate Change Committee (CCC) in the UK released its much anticipated report which is recommending that the government revise its emissions goal to …
Powering remote activities
Over the past three weeks I have been on a voyage from Cape Horn to the Cape of Good Hope, specifically Ushuaia to Cape Town. …
Has climate change run its course??
A curious article appeared in the Wall Street Journal recently, written by Steven Hayward from the University of California, Berkeley, arguing that the climate change …
A new era for aviation?
The pressure to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and the prospect of a world running largely on renewable electricity has sent research and development teams in …
The battery that made headlines
It is hard to imagine that something as mundane as a battery could make national headlines, but that is what happened last week in Australia. …
Drawdown, or not?
A recent book and associated website discusses the steps necessary to address and even reverse the current warming of the climate system. The project, known …
The USA and the Paris Agreement
On April 26th the Washington DC based Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) sent a letter to US President Donald Trump urging continued US participation …
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