Following on from the hard hitting What Lies Beneath report another stark warning Sir James Bevan, Environment Agency This speech takes twenty minutes, provided I don’t get heckled. But for those of you who are in a rush, here’s the short version of what I’m going to say: Climate change is the biggest threat we […]
The Understatement of Existential Climate Risk David Spratt & Ian Dunlop The opening chapters include – Risk understatement – Excessive caution – Thinking the Unthinkable – The Underestimation of Risk – The Existential risk to human civilization – Public sector duty of care on climate risk ….. you get the drift. Click here to download […]
Carbon Brief: ‘The BBC, one of the world’s largest and most respected news organisations, has issued formal guidance to its journalists on how to report climate change. Carbon Brief has obtained the internal four-page “crib sheet” sent yesterday to BBC journalists via an email from Fran Unsworth, the BBC’s director of news and current affairs. […]
Reducing Anglian’s energy costs & it is one of the biggest electricity consumers in the Anglian region. This innovation using storage shows how renewables could substantially reduce Company & environmental costs. Anglian Water solar power & storage scheme will up energy generation by 80% & create extra revenue stream Anglian Water is partnering with Open Energi and redT […]
This essay has prompted a viral response in the media and among scientists. You can see the article here web link to the essay Here Phil Williamson describes the key points and the response to date. “The Hothouse Earth scenario explored by Will Steffen and his co-authors others remains uncertain: it is not covered in most […]
The fortunes of seabirds around the UK at present are prompting different coverage. In two articles the worrying nature of sea bird populations off Shetland is highlighted whilst Defra announced new protection for Yorkshire’s seabird colonies. Changes to water temperature, plankton and sand eel populations are having very significant effects on different seabird colonies. […]
Environment Secretary calls in Water Bosses to explain leakage failures NB: Some of these links will be behind pay walls Defra: ‘Today’s Times reported on the news that The Environment Secretary has called in the Chief Executives of nine water companies to explain their poor performance on leakage. Environment Secretary Michael Gove said: Customers expect a reliable […]
Committee on Climate Change: ‘We have today put six research projects out to tender to support the next UK Climate Change Risk Assessment Evidence Report, due in summer 2021. The research is being funded by Defra, the devolved administrations and research councils (NERC, ESRC, EPSRC), totalling £925K. Closing dates for bids range from 10th – […]