Environmentalist
Is it achievable technologically? Yes. We already have the technology we need to get to Net Zero, and there is a lot more to come. There is a lot of research going on that has been triggered by the challenge of reaching net zero. So, we are going to have […]
I think that it is right and responsible to use the term climate emergency. We have got no time. The important thing about this problem is that is has a time clock on it. If we get it wrong, then we are in real trouble. That is exactly why it […]
The only place there is hysteria about these heatwaves is in the Daily Mail, because climate change is something it has tried to deny for a long time, and we are now seeing that the experience that people are having is confirming what the scientists have been saying. The Daily […]
The record that we are looking at to measure the trend in temperature rise is not short at all, it goes back hundreds of thousands of years. There are a whole lot of ways that we can measure the trend in temperatures, for instance by looking at tree rings and […]
A conversation with Stephen Colegrave of Byline Times, discussing what consequences climate policy success or failure will have on democratic systems. Without democracy, climate policy will fail. If climate policy fails democracy will die. To stay in power despots have to destroy all the machinery societies have ever invented to […]
BYLINE FESTIVAL PANEL: WHAT NEXT AFTER COP? WITH TOM BURKE, GABRIELLE WALKER, THOMAS PERRETT AND MARK STEVENSON, CHAIRED BY MALINI MEHRA Saturday, April 30, 2022 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Byline Festival: Media Circus Acklam Village London W10 United Kingdom I am speaking at the Byline Festival this weekend. “What […]
This is the third document in six months that the government has produced, and all that has happened is that they have become less coherent, and less and less connected to what actually matters to most people. What the Prime Minister seems to believe is that we want expensive nuclear […]
Why would the government build nuclear power stations which will mean that they have to put people’s energy bills up twice in order to get the investment needed to build them and pay for the energy they produce, why would you do that? Why would the government think it is […]
It is true that there was very little wind last week. But what is interesting is that the lights stayed on, electricity still worked, factories kept running, homes were still heated. So, it didn’t matter all that much that the wind didn’t blow, because we have a very sophisticated grid […]
Russia’s threat might make a difference to supply. There is a poker game going on here. Putin needs people to buy Rubles to prop up the value of the Ruble in Russia, and other countries need Russian gas, So, it is question of who can look the other in the […]