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The (German) tortoise and the (British) hare | Political Climate
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The Burning Question the best three-quarters of a book I have ever read on climate change. More on the Anglo-German conundrum →. June 28, 2013 · 10:49 am. The (German) tortoise and the (British) hare. The trends for the UK and Germany since 1990 (shown in grams of CO2 per kWh – data are from the International Energy Agency. What explains these differing pathways? This race is an interesting contrast between two very different paths towards a low-carbon electricity future. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Energy competitiveness in the Budget – going for cheap and dirty, not lean and clean | Political Climate
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Response to Guy Newey on carbon pricing. March 19, 2014 · 7:16 pm. Energy competitiveness in the Budget – going for cheap and dirty, not lean and clean. Much of the discussion of today’s Budget. Will be about wins for pensioners and bingo players, but another winner was energy-intensive industry. Setting the background, the Budget text involved some fairly selective data and glided over a few inconvenient facts. These statements are true, but they obfuscate some basic issues. First, the underlying re...
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Newer posts →. May 3, 2013 · 10:56 am. Climate scepticism and UKIP trends – more than a coincidence? I’ve blogged before on my ideas about the importance of seeing climate scepticism as a political phenomenon related to populism. With yesterday’s county council election results. Now showing a big UKIP vote, today seems an appropriate time to note that the rise in UKIP support correlates pretty well with an increase in scepticism expressed in polls. Continue reading →. March 26, 2013 · 11:07 am. Do we nee...
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Response to Guy Newey on carbon pricing | Political Climate
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The politics of carbon pricing. Energy competitiveness in the Budget – going for cheap and dirty, not lean and clean →. February 4, 2014 · 12:41 pm. Response to Guy Newey on carbon pricing. Head of environment and energy at the centre-right think-tank Policy Exchange. Has written a critique. Of my post on the politics of carbon pricing. Just a few further thoughts in response:. 4 Marginal pricing – Guy makes the argument that giving extra rent to low-carbon generators is a good thing because it wil...
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Climate disasters | Political Climate
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Tag Archives: Climate disasters. May 25, 2011 · 4:25 pm. David Wheeler at the Washington DC based thinktank Center for Global Development says that the number of Americans affected by extreme weather events has skyrocketed. From fewer than 10,000 a year in 1980 to over 2 million a year by 2008. The graph compares the rate (per 100,000 Americans) of being affected by violent weather events (the orange line) and the trend for violent crime (the dotted black line). As they say Stateside, go figure….
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COP 16 | Political Climate
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Tag Archives: COP 16. June 1, 2010 · 9:06 pm. Six months on and commentators continue to pick the last morsels of analysis off the carcass of the 15th Conference of the Parties in Copenhagen. The UK’s Guardian, for instance, has had a couple of goes at this piece. Which pins the blame on the Danes and their cursed text. Per Meilstrup, a Danish journalist, has written a whole book on COP 15 – largely the source of the Guardian piece – and reveals the ‘real’ Danish. Text on his blog. Shows, while poverty r...
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The politics of carbon pricing | Political Climate
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More on the Anglo-German conundrum. Response to Guy Newey on carbon pricing →. January 31, 2014 · 1:06 pm. The politics of carbon pricing. The anti-renewables bandwagon is rolling ever faster. This started some time ago. But has now started to bite on policy, as seen in the EU’s 2030 proposals. Which contain no binding renewables target. There is an emerging view, to be found especially amongst economists (including The Economist. For electricity companies, and this indeed was the case in the early part.
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Australia | Political Climate
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April 27, 2010 · 6:09 pm. US and Australian shelves. Are suddenly straining under the weight of planned climate change policies. In the space of a few days, American Democrats appear to have put climate and energy legislation on hold. In favour of a Senate bill on immigration and Rudd’s government down under has unequivocally placed its proposed cap and trade scheme in political storage. Of Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. The case of Australia is perhaps more complex still. Join 412 other followers.
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Climate policy | Political Climate
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Tag Archives: Climate policy. September 20, 2011 · 3:53 pm. The politics of climate change – where are we? Bryan Walsh’s piece. On Al Gore’s reality versus everyone else’s in Time magazine is an excellent precis of the current politics of climate change. He even gets the UK picture about right; the default position for US environmental writers is to assume European climate policy is a done deal. That said, Continue reading →. Filed under Climate deniers. Tagged as Climate denial. Tagged as Climate policy.
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Accord | Political Climate
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June 1, 2010 · 9:06 pm. Six months on and commentators continue to pick the last morsels of analysis off the carcass of the 15th Conference of the Parties in Copenhagen. The UK’s Guardian, for instance, has had a couple of goes at this piece. Which pins the blame on the Danes and their cursed text. Per Meilstrup, a Danish journalist, has written a whole book on COP 15 – largely the source of the Guardian piece – and reveals the ‘real’ Danish. Text on his blog. The answer is almost certainly still no.