#barmyidea4climate
‘An idea for storing renewable energy’
was first posted on ccq.org.uk, 25th March 2012
Question “Is it a good idea or barmy?”
Points:
1. There are times when renewable energy cannot be used. Sources tell me that 20% or more of wind energy is grounded (i.e. thrown away) because sometimes the generated energy cannot be used. Other renewable sources (solar, wave power) are also intermittent. Biomass is an exception. Continue reading An idea for storing renewable energy (2012)
I’ve been studying how temperature has changed over the years in the Arctic. The longest record I’ve got is for land areas only, from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, which starts way back in 1750:
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This was an appendix to Garden Cities and Green Evolutionary Settlements but that’s buried too deep to casually reference. It is reproduced here to show that lifestyles can be affected by a different structure of local finances. I look forward to the Butlins designing Green Evolutionary Settlements to begin the transformation towards more sustainable ways of living.
Continue reading Ideas for sustainable living: Butlin’s Holidays
Have you found that interesting page on a UK government website is missing? Do you suspect that it contained information inconvenient to present government?
Looking up a previous post on the effect of climate change on the safety of coastal nuclear power stations, I found :
The report relies on the HadRM3 Regional Climate Model. This may underestimate or omit the effects of certain climate feedbacks which are mentioned on the NERC website:
– reduced sea ice cover – reflecting less of the sun’s heat back out to space, changing ocean circulation patterns
– less carbon dioxide absorption by the oceans
– increased soil respiration
– more forest fires
– melting permafrost
– increased decomposition of wetlands
I thought I might refresh my memory but the NERC link gives Continue reading Inconvenient information: Page not found
From the home office in Death Valley, California, here’s tonight’s top ten list. The category tonight: top 10 reasons to love global warming. Here we go …
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We need to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and we need to do it quickly. The main ones increased by humans are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4, the main component of natural gas), and nitrous oxide (N2O).
How are we doing?
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Auntie Jayne solves your poem started in the magazine Mapping Awareness in 1994. Auntie Jane is an agony aunt who responds to poetic enquiries. Some will be published here.
A Poem
by
B. Carter Smith
Dear Lord
Make us
Eat our beef to melt the Arctic ice caps
Heat our homes to wipe the mid west farmers off the map
Give us
Cash fly to Spain and torch the Russian forests
… gas to fill our cars to shop at Tescos
… bricks and steel to conjure new tornadoes
Help us
Drown as many Bangladeshis as we can
Auntie Jayne writes: Continue reading Auntie Jayne solves your poem
Another journalist has discovered some bad news about Universal Credit, that the MSM ignored years ago: Universal credit ‘costs the self-employed thousands of pounds a year’
I read about this in 2015 on Making Workers Pay.
The Guardian and the Telegraph misunderstood ONS figures on land values. The New Statesman was much better.
The Independent, The Guardian and The Telegraph all miss the point that it is the children of the affluent that are the problem. Even then they get it wrong. See Population is a planet emergency but …
Continuing to be shocked by the poor quality of the Main Stream Media, I’m starting this page. I will update it from time to time.
News stories about the Arctic always seem to say either that the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average, or that it’s warming nearly twice as fast as the global average. That’s not correct.
Arctic warming is more like three to four times as fast as global warming.
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I want to feel safe.
When I walk home late at night.
When I sit on the subway.
When I sleep at night.
But I don’t feel safe.
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