Renewable Energy : Google Blind
In an interesting article by two Google engineers, Ross Koningstein and David Fork, "What It Would Really Take to Reverse Climate Change : Today’s renewable energy technologies won’t save us. So what...
View ArticleZero Careers In Plainspeaking
There are many ways to make a living, but there appear to be zero careers in plainspeaking. I mean, who could I justify working with, or for ? And would any of them be prepared to accept me speaking my...
View ArticleShell’s Public Relations Offensive #2
And so it has begun – Shell’s public relations offensive ahead of the 2015 Paris climate talks. The substance of their “advocacy” – and for a heavyweight corporation, it’s less lobbying than badgering...
View ArticleThe Price on Carbon
Although The Guardian newspaper employs intelligent people, sometimes they don’t realise they’ve been duped into acting as a mouthpiece for corporate propaganda. The “strapline” for the organisation is...
View ArticleWhy Shell is Wrong
So, some people do not understand why I am opposed to the proposal for a price on carbon put forward by Royal Dutch Shell and their oil and gas company confederates. Those who have been following...
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Nobel Chutzpah Prize 2015
The problem with climate change “deniers” and low carbon energy “sceptics” is that they cannot read. Here’s Jo Nova, claiming that the United Nations and the World Bank are demanding $89 trillion “to...
View ArticleWhat To Do Next
Status-checking questions. I’m sure we all have them. I certainly do. Several times a week, or even day, I ask myself two little questions of portent : “What am I doing ?” and “Why am I here ?”. I ask...
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Peak Oil Redux
Peak conventional crude petroleum oil production is apparently here already – the only thing that’s been growing global total liquids is North American unconventional oils : tight oil – which includes...
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JODI Oil and BP #3
So after the mystery of why JODI Oil regional refinery products demand data (oil products consumption) is so different from the BP Statistical Review of World Energy for 2016, I took a look at the...
View ArticleJumping off Mount Gideon
[Friends, I have suffered a little writer’s block, so I resolved to spark some creativity in myself by joining a little local writers group. The leader of the group suggested a title, I Googled the...
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