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Nature: love it or price it?

Yesterday my sister sent me a sermon she had given last week at Trinity College, Cambridge.  The subject of the sermon was Gerald Manley Hopkins, a poet who wrote about the beauty of the natural world.  Here is the 19th … Continue reading

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Coal trains and Warren Buffet

Here is some courteous and focussed campaigning I saw on James Hansen’s website:   Coal Trains and Warren Buffet Request   The following Letter to Warren Buffet can be found on my website. Sent By Mail: Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway … Continue reading

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Can the debt crisis help cure the EU ETS?

“Drop everything!” cried Günther the other day, bursting through my door.  His voice was trembling with excitement.  “We have the solution; you won’t believe it.  It is so elegantly simple.  And … totally legal,” he purred. I sat him down, … Continue reading

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Signal confusion

Does the EUA price constitute a signal or not?  Should it? Trevor Sikorsky of Barclays Capital argues in Barclays’ Quarterly Carbon Standard (26th March 2012) that: “It is expectations that drive such investment [in clean technology] … not current prices.” … Continue reading

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Split personalities

I just found a chapter from Climate Change for Football Fans which I cut out of the final version.  So here goes: Split personalities We were standing in the James Hargreaves Lower stand of Turf Moor.  The home crowd had … Continue reading

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