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In the 1970s, two countries took two different paths in energy policy. Denmark pursued wind power, but failed to replace its fossil fuel power plants. It has among the highest carbon emissions per capita in Europe. France pursued nuclear power, and now has the lowest carbon emissions of any OECD country. Lesson learned. Nuclear power […]
Filed under: Emissions, Nuclear, Renewables | 93 Comments »
One of the new initiatives I’ll be trying in 2011 is an audio podcast series (I use the term ‘series’ loosely, as there’ll be no fixed schedule). This is now fairly straightforward to do, via my iPhone 4 and the Audioboo app. This type of media/blogging is quick and flexible to do on the fly. […]
Filed under: Clim Ch Q&A, podcast | 48 Comments »
Guest Post by Chris Uhlik. Dr Uhlik did a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford 1979-1990. He worked at Toyota in Japan, built robot controllers, cellular telephone systems, internet routers, and now does engineering management at Google. Among his 8 years of projects as an engineering director at Google, he counts engineering […]
Filed under: Emissions, Nuclear | 334 Comments »
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. The United Nations report Livestock’s Long Shadow (LLS) came out in 2006 with an estimate that 18 percent of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are attributable to livestock. If you exclude deforestation emissions, […]
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After a long, hot period of drought in eastern Australia, spanning much of the 1990s and 2000s and referred to as the worst in 1000 years (see also discussion on BNC on the drought here and the strange winter of 2009 here), the period 2010-2011 has seen record rainfall and rural flooding events in Australia. […]
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Guest post by DV82XL. He is a Canadian chemist and materials scientist (and regular BNC commenter). An earlier relevant post by this author can be read here: An informed public is key to acceptance of nuclear energy. I have been watching with some amusement the debate here at BNC surrounding the idea of a carbon price on […]
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UPDATE 1. I have menus working now — if you look at the top-of-the-blog pages, you’ll see the ABOUT page has a pull-down menu. This can now be expanded to cover many relevant pages (that need to be created). 2. I have posted a PAGE which lists all BNC posts, with a hyperlinked title. 3. […]
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Yes, I’m still on vacation. But I couldn’t resist a quick response to this comment (and the subsequent debate): BBC: Do you agree that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming Phil Jones: Yes, but only just. Here is the global temperature data from 1995 to 2010, for NASA GISS […]
Filed under: Clim Ch Q&A, Sceptics | 102 Comments »
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