It obvious that our politicians are not taking climate change seriously, as the developed should be doing the most to reduce their own emissions. Instead they are investing in oil and gas including tar sands, shale gas and coal-bed methane!
Retraction Watch, WordPress parent company file suit to fight false copyright claims, censorship
Retraction Watch readers may recall that earlier this year, ten of our posts disappeared for two weeks after someone at an alleged news service in India falsely claimed that we had violated their copyright. The situation was the opposite of those claims; in fact our copyright had been violated, and the posts, all about Anil Potti, were restored.
Ars Technica, which covered the case at the time, explained how this sort of thing happens in an earlier story:
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Leaked IPCC report: Humans are adapting — but hunger, homelessness, and violence lie ahead
Despite all the scientific evidence showing we are responsible for climate change and the growing gap between rich and poor. Our politicians still think they are living on a planet with infinite resources to plunder, keep themselves rich. When the maelstrom hits us, they will find they cannot eat their money. They are just as vulnerable to catastrophic climate change, as the rest of us. It is time they changed course, started reducing consumption, waste and investing in real clean and renewable energy.
World Bank the cause of high energy costs.
Someone after the debate on Electrifying Manchester, mentioned that it is the World Bank which is controlling energy tariffs, especially in the Global South. They are the people who are pushing big energy projects, which do not really provide the poor with energy. A couple of sites today, cover some of this issue:
Are Big Banks botching one of the greatest cleantech opportunities of all?
Though this article states the USA will not fund coal power, I do not stop the World Bank from doing so:
Why We Don’t Care About Saving Our Grandchildren From Climate Change
One does get the feeling parents are too selfish, to consider what the future holds for their children and grandchildren. I have spoken to parents who are the biggest climate denialists and believe it is the environmentalist who have all the money and are just propergating nonsense!
Save yourselves: When it comes to climate change, the cavalry isn’t coming
The video explains simply what is required, that people need to get up and do things themselves, not rely on politicians to lead.
5 top resources on the IPCC report
Despite the lack of any real main stream media coverage, other than the usual climate change denial. It is up to us to push the message, that we should be doing more and should of being doing it years ago.
If the publication of last week’s IPCC report left you wanting to know more, but not wanting to read a lot more, we’ve put together a list of links below to five, interesting, short content resources on the subject. Comment here or send us a tweet (@GreenAllianceUK) if you know any more worth sharing and we’ll add them to the list.
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Why was the world’s biggest biomass power station closed down – and what does this mean for forests?
Moving to biomass incineration, even for domestic heating is not the way forward, is not environmentally friendly and is a polluting source of energy.
Background to Tilbury B:
On 13th August, Tilbury B, so far the world’s biggest biomass power station commissioned so far, was shut down for good. It is sited along the Thames east of London and was opened as a coal power station in 1968 and later acquired by RWE Npower. It was one of several UK coal power stations which did not meet the EU’s 2001 Large Combustion Plant Directive (LCPD) because of its very high sulphur dioxide
Historically, UK coal and oil-fired power stations have been amongst the most polluting in Europe and few of them are fitted with the expensive technology to reduce sulphur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions. The UK emits more SO2 than any other country in western Europe. Under the EU’s LCPD directive, companies were given the option to either retrofit their coal power stations with SO2 scrubbers, to purchase enough…
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The Colorado Flood: An Opportunity to Think about Risk, Natural Disasters and Climate Change
Despite the over-whelming evidence, that climate change is caused by humans burning fossil fuels and biomass. The Governments of the Global North continue with ‘business-as-usual’, and actively support fossil fuel industries and industries dependent on them. Also, the affluent middle-class have done nothing, to reduce the excessive consumption but instead, expect the least well-off, to reduce theirs.
As some of the readers of this blog will know I recently moved from London to Nederland, Colorado (a small town outside of Boulder – where I work). I arrived just in time for the Colorado flood last week. My tiny home up at 8500ft elevation was undamaged, but the water ran down the canyon ripping up both roads and houses down stream in Boulder and beyond.
Water from the mountains flowed down Boulder Creek at up to 25 times its normal intensity. The canyon road from Nederland into Boulder was badly damaged not only by mud and rockslides but by the erosion of its foundations as the earth dissolved into the river. Early this week I attended the town of Nederland post-flood recovery meeting where I witnessed the community coming to terms with the fact that the road we all depend on to get to Boulder has been partially washed away…
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