Category: Environment
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Save time and money, it says. By signing up for two years, you save the Society the expense of sending renewal reminders to you next year (and you help us conserve paper) Well, if you want to save paper maybe you could resist the temptation to stuff the envelope with all these different bits of…
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I take the optimistic view on climate change – that mankind is sufficiently inventive and resourceful to overcome the problem. A recent article in New Scientist magazine (Better world: Top tech for a cleaner planet)highlighted a few interesting ideas that are under development: Waggling wings Modern passenger planes are masterfully streamlined but the aircraft are…
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One definition of irony is printing out on an email and finding that it all fits on to one page – apart from the sanctimonious little message reminding you to think before you print this email, which is all its own on the 2nd page.
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I see that today’s SCMP has a longish piece about biofuel on the mainland (Enormous potential in laggard biofuel – subscription required): Ethanol – produced by fermenting crops such as corn, soybean, rapeseed and sugarcane, or other plants such as cane-like sweet sorghum, sweet potato and cassava – has figured in the plans of many biofuel…
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New Scientist (subscription required) asks why so few eco-friendly buildings are being built. Good question. In Hong Kong (and large parts of China) that means designing buildings that can be kept cool in the summer without excessive use of air-conditioning. It’s not happening, is it? Developers prefer to throw up apartments with thin walls and…
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His blog hasn’t been updated for months, but Simon Patkin has found time to write to the SCMP (subscription required): Greenie gibberish Richard Fielding’s letters-page diatribe in favour of environmentalism and against free enterprise can only be described as gibberish ("Profiteering from the end of the world as we know it", February 3). For example,…
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I was recently listening to John Micklethwait the new(ish) editor of The Economist on the New Year’s Day edition of Start the Week. He made the rather startling prediction that 2007 would be the year the George Bush would ‘go green’. His argument was that some of his natural supporters, including neocons, evangelical Christians, big…
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Simon Patkin is at it again. Today’s Sunday Morning Post includes a letter from him entitled “Don’t be fooled by alarmists on global warming”. He is responding to Christine Loh’s column (Global warming won’t wait – subscription required) on Thursday which referred to the Stern Review. The time she has seized on a report saying that global…
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I have now got round to reading Senator Inhofe’s speech about how global warming is all a hoax perpetrated by self-interested scientists and the media. Before I get to that, though, I have been reading New Scientist magazine: "Further global warming of 1 °C defines a critical threshold. Beyond that we will likely see changes…
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On Monday, the SCMP printed one of Simon Patkin’s (always entertaining) letters. Today they have printed two replies: Evidence of warming Simon Patkin’s accusations of "Shrill alarmism" (October 2) reflect an increasingly aggressive right-wing view in the US that anyone who disagrees with the party line is either biased, un-American or both. His selective evidence…
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