Tag Archives: climate change
Priming as policy: forest schools and nuclear power
It takes five years to educate a child from the age of five to ten. It takes between ten and twenty years to build a nuclear power station in a democracy. We should consider carefully the implications of this in … Continue reading
The dream
Some luxuriate in a technological dream – where technology pampers them and provides every comfort and solves every problem. But immediate satisfaction and the elimination of the rough edges of life eventually stale. Their only challenge is to create more … Continue reading
The aviation industry and climate change
Here is the aviation industry blasting the hell out of the EU ETS while it ignores a greater danger looming up behind it: climate change. Increased turbulence will put off customers, more extreme weather events will increase the cost of … Continue reading
Climate asymptotery
In maths I learnt that an asymptote is a line which gets closer and closer to another line but never actually reaches it. This is happening with climate change science. The fourth assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate … Continue reading
Ostriches can’t fly
In April 2013 Dr Paul Williams of Reading University and Dr Manoj Joshi of University of East Anglia published a paper on how climate change will increase the incidence of turbulence resulting in additional costs for the aviation industry. This … Continue reading
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