Q: When is a low-carbon fuel not a low-carbon fuel?
A: When it’s hydrogen.
If you think that’s not funny, you’re right. It’s not. Hydrogen is being touted as a climate saviour, yet would actually lead to greater carbon emissions.
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Just like the way the government has decided on the sites of new nuclear power stations despite the consultation process not having finished yet, so - despite the consultation on Heathrow’s third runway still taking place - Business Secretary John Hutton seems to have already decided that it will go ahead.
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It’s always something of a fish/barrel/firearms combo going for Spiked and their writers. But given the scandalous denial of the facts and complete absence of research in one particular piece, I’ll do it anyway.
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Whilst it’s common knowledge that a diet low in animal products is healthier, cheaper and better for you (and better for the animals, of course), it’s less known that it’s also a lot better in the fight against climate change.
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(A guest post by Gus of 1820 fame.)
Anyone who didn’t believe in karma should take a peek at what’s going on in the Antarctic Ocean. As Associated Press reports: “The crew of a Japanese whaling ship (the Nisshin Maru) stranded in Antarctic waters by a fire that killed one seaman were trying to repair its [...]
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Even though I presume that you, dear reader, laudably don’t buy The Times, nonetheless you may glance at headlines whilst passing a news-stand.
Yesterday’s main story was headlined ‘THE GREEN DIVIDE: Times poll shows the gulf between words and action on the environment’.
It shows nothing of the sort. The table that, ahem, proves it uses reasoning [...]
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Thomas Paine once wrote:
Every age and generation must be free to act for itself, in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation [...]
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It is difficult to overstate the case with climate change. There is no bigger issue. Calm and informed voices - even David Attenborough’s - are saying it is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. Indeed, it could even be the last.
Next month, the Camp for Climate Action plans to kickstart a campaign of radical [...]
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