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Much has been written on TalkClimateChange of the challenges associated with the mass adoption of renewable energy.
Yet investors are apparently keen to throw money at renewable projects, despite lingering uncertainty over the plans of many governments to implement carbon credits as a means of incentivising such projects.
Keith Johnson wrote recently in the Wall Street Journal:
Spain’s […]

Continued as part of Daryl’s Urban vs Rural series.
Today I will look at mitigation strategies advanced as lifestyle changes to mitigate energy consumption, and how lifestyle options in urban centres fail to translate well to rural areas.
I’ll continue to use the BC Carbon Tax Plan as a template with choices advanced under the 2008 […]

Time for more climate talks, as the world inches towards an agreement on a replacement Kyoto protocol through a long and drawn out series of largely unproductive talks which contribute little except to boost profits of the international travel industry.
This weekend, talks have been taking place among international leaders in Kobe, Japan. Setting expectations […]

I’ve been reading  the new study by Sloan and Wolfendale on the theory of cosmic rays and cloud formation in regards to global warming. I’ve also been reading the associated press coverage.
This theory was advanced in the book by Svenmark called "The Chilling Stars" and is a theory that has been repeatedly attacked by […]

 
We’ve consistently complained about, and argued against bio-fuels on TalkClimateChange. It’s fair to say that we really don’t like them.
However, whilst much of the blame for escalating world food prices that has been heaped upon bio-fuels is fully deserved, I’ve often felt that we’ve tended to overlook other important factors in our criticism. Notably, that […]

My childhood was spent living and working on farms in Northern Canada, followed by living in some of the most populous cities in North America - so I can draw some contrasts between the urban and rural lifestyles.
Mark recently wrote here that over 50% of us world-wide now live in urban areas, and as […]

“Global warming may ’stop’, scientists predict.” - Daily Telegraph
That’s one way of summarising the paper recently published in the scientific journal Nature documenting recent research by the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in Kiel, Germany.
This paper has attracted a lot of media attention on both sides of the debate, with some parties using it as […]

But which way?
I’ve been intrigued by the number of different interpretations following Nature’s recent publication predicting a temporary lull in global warming on which Daryl recently commentated.
Right now I am in the midst of putting together a post contrasting the different reactions, and - crucially - the impact this has on the world’s decision […]

I’m almost at a loss for words here, and I guess the simple thing would be just to attempt to explain what is happening.
The “scientists” over at RealClimate.com have challenged German climate modellers - who recently published their “peer reviewed” paper on the results of their new climate model runs - to a wager […]

As I walk home humming to my iPod, I can pretty much keep station with the cars crawling along next to me. Sometimes one of us inches ahead of the other, but rarely do either of us have a decisive advantage. Many a time I have reflected on the absurdity of this situation as […]

Following the discussion on the Stern report’s projections for the economic cost / benefit of tackling climate change, I’d like to introduce a new perspective: The cost of climate change avoidance is irrelevant, since most of today’s avoidance schemes are wholly ineffective anyway.
I make this assertion following UK treasury projections that the “green levy” on […]

Editor’s note: Daryl is actually feeling fine - we checked after reading this..
I’ve just read an article on MSN / Sympatico called “The cheapest way to save the Earth“, which actually made sense to me - and it is about lifestyle changes!
Now a caveat: I don’t actually agree with it all, but I do […]

This post was originally published on EcoWorldly. It is loosely connected with climate change in that it concerns the potential for the mass adoption of public transport, although I post it here purely for your interest and to spread the message.
Putting pen to paper for Bus Transportation Week I began to make a few notes […]

For some reason the announcement yesterday that George Bush planned to give a speech making new US commitments to tackle climate change completely failed to register with me. So familiar have I become with grand political statements on climate change that instead of eagerly awaiting the news I instead forgot all about it until reading […]

Recently a reader, Nadine,  posted a comment with a question which sparked my interest. Instead of a long and badly worded comment, I thought I would elevate the answer to her question to a fully fledged blog post. I think that the question is a valid one which is worthy of investigation here and is […]