Faith for the Climate
[ UPDATE : I NEED TO MAKE CLEAR THAT THIS REPORT IS A PERSONAL AND PARTIAL ACCOUNT OF THE MEETING. SOME PEOPLE IN THE WIDER PROCESS COULD NOT TAKE PART, AND WILL NEED TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO OFFER...
View ArticlePositively Against Negative Campaigning
How to organise a political campaign around Climate Change : ask a group of well-fed, well-meaning, Guardian-reading, philanthropic do-gooders into the room to adopt the lowest common denominator...
View ArticleThis Too Will Fail
I will probably fail to make myself understood, yet again, but here goes… The reasons the United Nations Climate Change process is failing are :- 1. The wrong people are being asked to shoulder...
View ArticleMy Next Freedom of Information Request
Information Rights Unit Department for Business, Innovation & Skills 5th Floor Victoria 3 1 Victoria Street London SW1H OET 28th May 2014 Request to the Department of Energy and Climate Change Re :...
View ArticleOn Not Setting The Proper Tone
So, I turned up for a national Climate Change campaigning and lobbying day some years ago. I had offered to steward at the event. My attire concerned one of those close to the organising team. After...
View ArticleWho Likes Beer ?
First, Christian Figueres speaks at St Paul’s Cathedral, and then there’s a debate, and questions, and somebody says Capitalism needs to be reformed or we’re not going to get any proper change. Half...
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For The Love Of Kittens
I idly searched Twitter for the #fortheloveof hashtag, just to see if The Climate Coalition had achieved anything in its campaign to urge or support action by the UK Government on adopting the Fourth...
View ArticleA Brief Unhelpfulness from My Government
So, in response to my second Freedom of Information Request, I get this reply from my Department of Energy and Climate Change :- “The Department wishes to be as open as possible in answering requests,...
View ArticleTime for another FOI Request
My previous Freedom of Information Request having been so snubbingly turned down, I have had another crack at it. I don’t mean to be annoying – I am genuinely in search of information, as it appears to...
View ArticleSpare Kettle Sudden Death
I’m all for peak shaving, so we tried a low power kettle at home, but it rusted. So we tried another one, and the lid broke. Seriously, the low wattage appliance manufacturers need to get their act...
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European Referendum : Corpse Factory
So I was in a meeting on a dateless date, at an organisation with a nameless name, with some other unidentifiable people in the room with me. For some reason I had been invited, I cannot think why. Ah,...
View ArticleUKERC : Gas by Design
Today I attended a meeting of minds. It’s clear to me that the near-term and mid-term future for energy in the United Kingdom and the European Union will best be centred on Natural Gas and Renewable...
View ArticleUKERC : Gas by Design (2)
This week, I had the opportunity to join the launch of the UKERC’s latest research into the future of gas. The esteemed delegates included members of a Russian Trade Delegation and several people from...
View ArticleShell Shirks Carbon Responsibility
I was in a meeting today held at the Centre for European Reform in which Shell’s Chief Financial Officer, Simon Henry, made two arguments to absolve the oil and gas industry for responsibility for...
View Article20 Letters
[ Video : George Marshall of the Climate Outreach Information Network launching his new book "Don't Even Think About It" on the communication of climate change at the Harvard Book Store, whereto he...
View ArticleRenewable Energy : Google Blind
In an interesting article by two Google engineers, Ross Koningstein and David Fork, "What It Would Really Take to Reverse Climate Change : Today’s renewable energy technologies won’t save us. So what...
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This Is Actually Me : Ms Joanne Abbess MSc
Recently, I’ve been in almost total isolation in Chingford, North East London, bent over a hot laptop trying to compose thoughts and facts about Renewable Gas, so it came as a bit of shock to me to...
View ArticleOnly Just Getting Started
In the last couple of years I have researched and written a book about the technologies and systems of Renewable Gas – gas energy fuels that are low in net carbon dioxide emissions. From what I have...
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Renewable Gas : A Presentation #1
Last week, on the invitation of Dr Paul Elsner at Birkbeck, University of London, I gave a brief address of my research so far into Renewable Gas to this year’s Energy and Climate Change class, and...
View ArticleZero Careers In Plainspeaking
There are many ways to make a living, but there appear to be zero careers in plainspeaking. I mean, who could I justify working with, or for ? And would any of them be prepared to accept me speaking my...
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