St Greta’s Problem
Greta Thunberg has something of a problem with her plans for the world. Which is that exactly what she thinks should happen is happening....
We’ll Not Do Well With Idiots Like This Making Policy
This coming from someone employed in our newer universities as a travel policy analyst:
Nicole Badstuber is a transport policy and travel behaviour researcher at...
Twitterbots And Climate Change
Quite horrifying news that some quarter of all Tweets about climate change are created by 'bots.
The social media conversation over the climate crisis is...
A Question About Climate Change And Joined Up Government
In the Stern Review on climate change we are sternly (ahem) informed that we must abjure planning as a method of beating climate change....
Climate Change – So Let’s Just Be Poor Instead, Eh?
It's rare to see this so baldly stated. The alternative to climate change is that we all remain poor:
Can we fully absorb the scale...
The Argument For A Carbon Tax
The argument for a carbon tax isn't that it's perfect. Rather, given what the idiots are doing already that it would be better:
In 1989...
George Monbiot Says There’s No Point In Battling Climate Change
This is not, of course what George Monbiot actually comes out and says, that there's no point in Battling Climate Change. But it is...
People Will Whine About Shell’s Share Buybacks
A little prediction, people will whine about Shell buying back its own shares:
Shell has a plan to buy back an extraordinary $25 billion of...
The Swansea Tidal Power Project Is A Total And Complete Dog
Yes, yes, yes, we're all supposed to be right on about renewables. Even, willing to fund them through the loss making development phase and...
Pneumonia Is A Disease Of Poverty, Is It – Our New Renewables Victims
An interesting statement made here:
Kevin Watkins, the Save the Children chief executive, said: “I would describe pneumonia as the ultimate disease of poverty, both...