Cities lead the energy transition

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This article first appeared in Revolve Magazine on April 29, 2014 The message at Energy Cities’ annual rendez-vous was clear: cities are the interface with citizens and by default (since cities are growing exponentially around the world) they are the mandatory motors of innovative change to realize the urban energy […]

After you Claude

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                    Britons only generate 1.42% of the world’s carbon emissions. No-one else is doing much to reduce their emissions. We are doing a lot and should not do more until everyone else joins in. This is the facile, Treasury inspired, argument […]

‘Events, dear boy, events’ have put climate change back on the agenda

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  This article piece first appeared in The Guardian on Wednesday 26 March 2014 The decline of climate change on leaders’ agendas has been reversed – not by new analysis, but two years of extreme weather                   British prime minister, Harold Macmillan, […]

MAKERS AND TAKERS

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  This article first appeared in Business Green.        The public discourse on climate policy is asymmetric. It has been dominated by the climate makers. These are the fossil fuel industries and their customers. This has led to a badly distorted portrayal of climate policy risk. As a […]

Shale gas: four myths and a truth

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                                                Some argue that the solution to rising energy prices and energy security concerns lies not in cutting demand for energy imports by improving energy efficiency whilst […]

WHAT’S IN A WORD 2

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        I recently came across a quote from Benny Peiser from the Global Warming Policy Foundation. He was writing in the Daily Mail. What he said was “ Not only is much of the science behind the idea of global warming now being disputed, but, at a […]

Making John Redwood angry – it’s nothing personal

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  This article first appeared in Business Green on the 17th February 2014     I recently made John Redwood MP very cross. He was so cross he accused me of making ‘a very unpleasant personal attack’ on him. He was mistaken. I did no such thing. I did, however, […]

Discussing Climate Change and Floods – BBC Radio 2 – 14th February 2014

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  Discussing climate change and floods – BBC Radio 2 with Jeremy Vine – 14th February 2014 “A way to think about what we are experiencing now is this; this is the trailer for climate change the movie, if you don’t like the trailer then you probably won’t like the […]

Discussing Climate Change on LBC Radio – 16th February 2014

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  Discussing climate change on LBC Radio with Andrew Castle on 13th February 2014 “If you like these events are the trailer for climate change the movie, and if you don’t like what’s happening in these events, then you definitely won’t like what happens if we do nothing about it.” […]

Discussing Climate Change on LBC Radio – 13th February 2014

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  Discussing climate change on LBC Radio with Nick Ferrari on 13th February 2014 “The climate is changing because we are putting greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, in some places that will lead to warming, in some places it will lead to drying and in some place it will lead […]