Thoughts on current political and financial developments, travel, climate and the environment with a humorous twist where possible
This series of blogs is based on the Harvard Climate-Energy Challenge MOOC. Previous parts have dealt with the physics involved and anthropogenic changes. Because carbon exists in different forms, whether in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, in plants and animals as organic carbon or in the ocean as bicarbonate it is useful to think in… Continue reading Climate Change Science Part 3.1 Carbon Reserves and the Keeling Curve
To recap from Part 1. This series of blogs is based on the Harvard Climate-Energy Challenge online course (MOOC) via edX which is free unless one wishes to have participation and performance certified. This series of blogs of which this is now the second is intended to extend this freely available content to those who… Continue reading Climate Change Science Part 2 Anthropogenic Changes
As mentioned in my May update a meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on this topic was held on 30 April. These are some points from the minutes. Mention has previously been made of the government combining in a single statutory instrument the increased allowance for caregivers and the freezing of pension increases for certain… Continue reading Frozen British Pensions Update July 2019
This update is rather depressing in highlighting the lack of progress in limiting climate change. The image below shows a 2018 increase in CO2 emissions of close to 600 MTCO2 to a record high of 33.1 GTCO2. Of this increase 85% came from the US, India and China. The recent decline in coal burning has… Continue reading Climate Action Tracker’s Mid 2019 Update
This series of blogs is based on the Harvard Climate-Energy Challenge online course (MOOC) via edX which is free unless one wishes to have participation and performance certified. This series of blogs, of which this is the first, is intended to extend this freely available content to those who may not to want to commit… Continue reading Climate Change Science Part 1 The Physics
The situation over most of the region is looking good except for the continuing low levels of Lesotho dams at the end of another rainy season. This may be accounted for by water releases to dilute pollution levels in the Vaal system. The longer term implications are that water shortages in the Witwatersrand heartland of… Continue reading Southern Africa Dam Levels May 2019
Even though Brexit is tending to put other issues on hold the recent AGM of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Frozen British Pensions (APPG) included some interesting comments: The link between frozen pensions and the situation of post Brexit UK pensioners in the EU is recognised There are no reciprocal agreements arranged with any of… Continue reading Frozen British Pensions Update May 2019
