Blog: No More Nukes?
TweetFor more on this topic, click here to see my Political Commentary in the ENDS Report. It is just David Cameron’s bad luck to have chosen to back a nuclear future for Britain at a moment when it is...
View ArticleNuclear letter to David Cameron, offering him the advice he isn’t getting...
TweetThis story was covered in the BBC News and The Guardian, and mentioned in The Telegraph. Download attachments here for the letter and the note. Environmentalists have studied the nuclear industry...
View ArticleDavid King’s misplaced enthusiasm over nuclear
TweetEnthusiasm has a way of blinding you to glaring inconsistencies in your arguments. David King is an enthusiast for nuclear power. As chief scientist he was an important influence in persuading the...
View ArticleBudget Blog: Death of greenest government ever
TweetWhat Cameron put together Osborne is now taking apart. Detoxifying the Conservative Party while in Opposition has been the Prime Minister’s greatest political success. It got him his current job....
View ArticleBudget blog 2: Wolf ingnores evidence!
TweetMartin Wolf is one of the world’s most trusted, authoritative and influential economic commentators. A central reason for his ascent to such a height has been the rigour of his thinking. He is,...
View ArticleWhy Nuclear Power makes No Sense for the UK
TweetI will be running a series of Briefings along with Tony Juniper, Jonathon Porritt and Charles Secrett, following our letter of 12th March to the Prime Minister warning him that his plans for...
View ArticleProspects for a Clean Revolution
TweetThis blog introduces the topic of a #CleanRevolution that I will be covering in a live Twitter Q&A at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning with Mark Kenber, CEO of The Climate Group. It is not yet...
View ArticleNuclear policy: part of the Government’s omnishambles
TweetThe collapse of the Government’s nuclear policy is a somewhat overlooked part of its current omnishambles. In part this is because very few of the journalists writing about nuclear power know much...
View ArticleNuclear power would appear to have acquired the power to destroy logic
TweetSome people worry about nuclear power because they fear the risks to human health from radioactivity. Others are concerned about the morality of leaving a legacy of radioactive wastes that will be...
View ArticleHinkley and Sizewell will cost us £155 billion over 30 years under the CfD
TweetThe government is pressing ahead, in the face of growing difficulties, with its effort to build new nuclear power stations in Britain. So far, it has failed to come clean about what this will...
View ArticleWHAT’S IN A WORD 2
Tweet I recently came across a quote from Benny Peiser from the Global Warming Policy Foundation. He was writing in the Daily Mail. What he said was “ Not only is much of the science behind the...
View Article‘Events, dear boy, events’ have put climate change back on the agenda
Tweet This article piece first appeared in The Guardian on Wednesday 26 March 2014 The decline of climate change on leaders’ agendas has been reversed – not by new analysis, but two years of extreme...
View ArticleAfter you Claude
Tweet Britons only generate 1.42% of the world’s carbon emissions. No-one else is doing much to reduce their emissions. We are doing a lot and should not do more until everyone …...
View ArticleSPEAKING WITH A FORKED TONGUE
Tweet This article first appeared in Business Green . Last month, under pressure from activist investors, Exxon issued a report to their shareholders on climate change. To no-one’s surprise they...
View ArticleTHE FUTURE IS COMING READY OR NOT
Tweet The following speech talks about the looming collision between $6 trillion of investment in oil and gas over the next ten years and the agreement by governments to keep the rise in global...
View ArticleCHINA NIGHTMARE
Tweet This piece first appeared in Business Green The prospect of the Chinese becoming owners, managers and even constructors of nuclear power stations in Britain has caused anxiety...
View ArticleTHE POWER OF DREAMS
Tweet This piece first appeared in The Guardian on Thursday 10th July It has always been difficult to see what was attractive about the proposed deal with EDF to build a … Continue...
View ArticleTusk – not as bad for climate as it first appears?
Tweet This piece first appeared on the E3G website The appointment of Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, to replace Van Rompuy as President of the European Council has provoked...
View ArticleCCC’s response to Owen Paterson’s speech to the GWPF
Tweet The BBC and the right wing press have been making much of Owen Paterson’s anti-climate speech this week. It is a farrago of nonsense. The Climate Change Committee has produced an excellent...
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