I’m getting a lot of email about this today, so to save time, here are some of the points I made on Today FM’s Sunday Business Show. Before reading my points below, please read this, this, and maybe even buy this.
Also tagged Climate change, Electricity generation, Energy, Energy security, North Sea Oil, Nuclear, Nuclear powerTake a look at the data below, which comes from this recently released CO2 emissions report by the CSO. (You can get the data I used to make the chart here).
I’ve taken the largest emitters of CO2 by sector, and graphed them. The data pull out an interesting story. We see a mitigation of the [...]
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 [...]
Also tagged China, Environment, Fossil fuel, Global warming, Ireland, Kyoto Protocol, Nuclear powerYesterday I wrote a small piece about using Nudge-inspired policies to improve the experience of first time parenting. Today, Martin from the Geary blog tells us
“A London council is to pilot policies based on a new theory of behavioural economics in a bid to tackle litter, reduce carbon emissions and increase recycling rates, it has [...]