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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
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
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