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The (German) tortoise and the (British) hare | Political Climate
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The Burning Question the best three-quarters of a book I have ever read on climate change. More on the Anglo-German conundrum →. June 28, 2013 · 10:49 am. The (German) tortoise and the (British) hare. The trends for the UK and Germany since 1990 (shown in grams of CO2 per kWh – data are from the International Energy Agency. What explains these differing pathways? This race is an interesting contrast between two very different paths towards a low-carbon electricity future. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Energy competitiveness in the Budget – going for cheap and dirty, not lean and clean | Political Climate
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Response to Guy Newey on carbon pricing. March 19, 2014 · 7:16 pm. Energy competitiveness in the Budget – going for cheap and dirty, not lean and clean. Much of the discussion of today’s Budget. Will be about wins for pensioners and bingo players, but another winner was energy-intensive industry. Setting the background, the Budget text involved some fairly selective data and glided over a few inconvenient facts. These statements are true, but they obfuscate some basic issues. First, the underlying re...
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Newer posts →. May 3, 2013 · 10:56 am. Climate scepticism and UKIP trends – more than a coincidence? I’ve blogged before on my ideas about the importance of seeing climate scepticism as a political phenomenon related to populism. With yesterday’s county council election results. Now showing a big UKIP vote, today seems an appropriate time to note that the rise in UKIP support correlates pretty well with an increase in scepticism expressed in polls. Continue reading →. March 26, 2013 · 11:07 am. Do we nee...
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Response to Guy Newey on carbon pricing | Political Climate
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The politics of carbon pricing. Energy competitiveness in the Budget – going for cheap and dirty, not lean and clean →. February 4, 2014 · 12:41 pm. Response to Guy Newey on carbon pricing. Head of environment and energy at the centre-right think-tank Policy Exchange. Has written a critique. Of my post on the politics of carbon pricing. Just a few further thoughts in response:. 4 Marginal pricing – Guy makes the argument that giving extra rent to low-carbon generators is a good thing because it wil...
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Climate disasters | Political Climate
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Tag Archives: Climate disasters. May 25, 2011 · 4:25 pm. David Wheeler at the Washington DC based thinktank Center for Global Development says that the number of Americans affected by extreme weather events has skyrocketed. From fewer than 10,000 a year in 1980 to over 2 million a year by 2008. The graph compares the rate (per 100,000 Americans) of being affected by violent weather events (the orange line) and the trend for violent crime (the dotted black line). As they say Stateside, go figure….
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About me | Rebekah Phillips
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Skip to main content. Environmental Policy and Projects. I am an Associate with environmental think-tanks Green Alliance. And am a Visiting Research Fellow with the Policy Studies Institute. Previously I was a Senior Policy Adviser at Green Alliance. In charge of their Green living. Theme which I set up and developed. I have written extensively on green living issues and authored Green Alliance's influential. From Hot Air to Happy Endings. Reports and founded Green Alliance's blog. Prior to joining Green...
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COP 16 | Political Climate
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Tag Archives: COP 16. June 1, 2010 · 9:06 pm. Six months on and commentators continue to pick the last morsels of analysis off the carcass of the 15th Conference of the Parties in Copenhagen. The UK’s Guardian, for instance, has had a couple of goes at this piece. Which pins the blame on the Danes and their cursed text. Per Meilstrup, a Danish journalist, has written a whole book on COP 15 – largely the source of the Guardian piece – and reveals the ‘real’ Danish. Text on his blog. Shows, while poverty r...
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Too early to tell | Possibility
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Maybe the way we are in the world now isn't the only way. Too early to tell. Been mildly obsessed with not watching the news given recent events with, for example, Jimmy Savile and the Newtown shootings. This desire to step out of the constant news cycle has been guided by thoughts from Adam Curtis in this interview. And Will Self in this great example. The latest is all you need to be concerned with. So, it was refreshing to come across two different stories recently. January 3, 2013 at 7:08 pm. Address...
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Responsible for Reality | Possibility
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Maybe the way we are in the world now isn't the only way. Been very much off the radar recently as I’ve been putting the finishing touches to my Masters paper, but as part of this, had what I think is a good thought. Well, I like it. It goes something like this:. 8216;What is reality? Do I want it to be relaxing or stressful? Do I want to spend more time seeing, hearing, smelling and tasting things that make me feel good, whether they be things of beauty, uplifting people and good food? Or do I want to m...