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Worried about wood
A recent news item featured a St Albans family scavenging for firewood for heating. As the price of energy rises – through market forces as well as through climate change regulation – the woods and forests of the United Kingdom … Continue reading
The revenge of Greg Gloom, Part 6: The target
Mai Wei woke fresh from a deep and satisfying sleep. He spent ten minutes doing exercises and showered in luke-warm water. He took the stairs down to the restaurant for breakfast. All part of his new regime. He drank up … Continue reading
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Tagged Greg Gloom, Lord Pie, Mai Wei, Revenge of Greg Gloom, Telford
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Good news for the sky
Amidst a lot of bad news (extinction in Vietnam of the Javan Rhino, slaughter of 800 skylarks in Hungary by Italian hunters, shoot-to-kill search for a hungry shark in Australia), some good news came up about cutting emissions from air … Continue reading
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Tagged aviation, Climate Change Denial, EU Emission Trading Scheme, EU ETS
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The revenge of Greg Gloom, Part 5: Planning a party.
An enormous, ultra-efficient Dove 7000 gleamed on the runway of Mai Wei Airport outside Beijing. With seats for two thousand people – the travelling elite – it was the best and latest of Chinese technology. A dozen of these aerospats … Continue reading
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Tagged Greg Gloom, Lord Pie, Mai Wei, Revenge of Greg Gloom, Telford
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Killing sharks
In Australia they are after a great white shark which has had three people for dinner in the last few months. These people were engaging in leisure activity. That is, something rather trivial. It doesn’t seem right to kill a … Continue reading