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Category Archives: climate change
More Maize Madness: Far from being a climate change panacea, producing Biogas helps intensify its consequences
Tackling climate change is one of the most pressing and urgent things facing humanity, alongside (and related to) the 6th Global Extinction crisis. Some suggest that tackling Climate Change trumps all other considerations. One of the biggest consequences of climate … Continue reading
Posted in Anaerobic Digester, biogas, climate change, flooding, Floodplains, Maize
Tagged AD, Biogas, climate change, flooding, Maize
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Labour/UKIP voters put Environment/Climate Change as 2nd top Choice for Spending Cuts
Amid all the flummery of Clarkson’s cold cuts, Shapps’ second job, and Champion’s poppy wreath claim, there was a youGov poll, which showed Labour and the Tories neck and neck in the race to the General Election. No news … Continue reading
Posted in anti-environmental rhetoric, climate change, General Election, Labour, UKIP, Uncategorized
Tagged climate change, Environment, opinion polls, UKIP, YouGov
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UKIP Farm Spokesman Stuart Agnew’s chickens to be roasted by Massive Solar Farm
UKIP’s agriculture spokesman (John) Stuart Agnew may know nothing about chemistry, but he knows how to raise chickens. Agnew has a farm in Norfolk, where he has a 35000-chicken free range egg farm. Agnew also receives EU farm subsidies on … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, climate change, Common Agricultural Policy, Solar Farms, UKIP, Uncategorized
Tagged CAP, Farm policy, Solar Farms, Stuart Agnew, UKIP
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Viscount Matt Ridley: The New King Coal
I have written many times (eg here, here and here) about Viscount Matt Ridley. Ridley styles himself as “The Rational Optimist”, is brother in law of former Secretary of State against the Environment Owen … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, Denialists, Matt Ridley, Uncategorized
Tagged climate change, coal, Matt Ridley, Owen Paterson
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Forget Biogas, we need Hydrogen from Solar
With 2014 looking like it’s going to be the warmest year since records began, in 1880, but probably much longer ago than that, we need to take collective action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. I have already explained just recently … Continue reading
Posted in biofuels, biogas, climate change, Rampisham Down, Solar Farms
Tagged Biogas, climate change, Solar Farms
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The Great Biofuel Maize Scam
I was drawn back into the muddy world of Biofuel Maize by reading an article in the Western Morning News entitled planting right variety of maize boosts AD Output. The piece was a bit of puff for the AD … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, biogas, climate change, Maize
Tagged Biogas, climate change, Maize, Subsidies
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Owen Paterson calls for the use of nuclear submarines to power the UK
Owen Paterson wants the UK to run on electricity from Nuclear Submarines Owen Paterson is a bit of a submarine himself these days. He goes under, for weeks at a time, then pops up, fires off … Continue reading
55 Tory MPs believe human-induced climate change is “environmentalist propaganda”
what’s happening to global temperatures? Sometimes you read a news article and you think “that can’t be right” and it is. Yesterday was a case in point. We now know that CO2 levels have increased at their fastest rate for … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, the far right, Think Tanks, UKIP
Tagged climate change, think tanks, Tory, UKIP
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Paterson refuses top Scientists’ briefings on Climate Change: where does he get his views from?
It was a massive shock – to no-one at all – that Owen Paterson has refused to take a briefing on climate change from the Chief Scientists of the Met Office, Department of Climate Change or even Defra. This amazing … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, Eton, Matt Ridley, neoliberalism, Owen Paterson
Tagged climate change, Matt Ridley, Owen Paterson
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