Commission to clarify guidance for energy

By Dave Keating  –  European Voices, 17 October 2013 Wide range of approaches across the EU http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/imported/commission-to-clarify-state-aid-rules-for-energy-/78442.aspx The European Commission’s energy department is expected to publish next week draft guideance on subsidies for renwable energy, to bring greater clarity and predictability to member states’ approaches. But data showing that fossil fuels and nuclear energy together […]

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Open letter to Tony Hall and Director General of the BBC

Open letter to Tony Hall, Lord Hall of Birkenhead and Director General of the BBC, on the platform given to Prof Bob Carter on the World at One programme (Fri 27th Sept 2013). Instigated by the Claverton Group.   We, the undersigned scientists and engineers, write to condemn the appearance of Prof Bob Carter on […]

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A note about defamation

In making comments about other people or their work on this site you must avoid defamation. This applies particularily to the Yahoo Groups web group. What is defamation? Sally Bercow’s tweet about Lord McAlpine is a good example. It said: “Why is Lord McAlpine trending? *Innocent face*”.  That was defamation because: “ … words are […]

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Consensus of peer reveiwed scientific paper on climate change

There have been various efforts on this front over the years.  This was one of the key ones: The scientific consensus on climate change by Naomi Oreskes 2004 (looking at papers on climate change): http://www.sciencemag.org/content/306/5702/1686.full “Many details about climate interactions are not well understood, and there are ample grounds for continued research to provide a […]

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Pentland Firth – Nick Balmer

This was written as a comment to: http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/469/2157/20130072.full   A few years ago I was working for BAM Nuttall pricing renewable energy projects including offshore windfarms. We became part of a consortium looking at the possibility of installing wave or tidal current turbines in the Pentland Firth. It was one of the most interesting projects that […]

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The Global Climate 2001-2010, A Decade of Climate Extremes

“The world experienced unprecedented high-impact climate extremes during the 2001-2010 decade, which was the warmest since the start of modern measurements in 1850 and continued an extended period of pronounced global warming. More national temperature records were reported broken than in any previous decade, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).” […]

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