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A Nuclear Ireland?

Gerard posts on an issue I’ve been working on for something else—the need for a growing economy to provide itself with power without burning fossil fuels. Even together, solar, wind, wave, hydroelectric, and other greener technologies aren’t yet up to the task of  supplying Ireland’s needs, as the government’s 2007 white paper has shown. As James Lovelock has controversially [...]

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2008 09 28 General
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Australian Experiences of Climate Change & Government Solutions to the problem

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Further reading on the water shortage issue I posted about earlier on convinces me that thinking about water shortages is not advanced enough to be credible.
This story, hoisted from a comment at Watering Down, is instructive:

Sydney’s huge Warragamba dam was completed in early 1960 when the population was about one million. We [...]

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2008 09 03 UL Comments (0)

Thinking about Climate Change in Ireland

A barrage of emails has me thinking about climate change in Ireland, what we can expect, and more importantly, what we might do about it right now. And I’m not thinking about recycling. I’m thinking about policy responses centered around forward planning, a sort of flanking move on the most likely effects of climate [...]

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2008 08 14 Research Comments (0)