January 7, 2014

Greenpeace may have been founded in Canada and its global headquarters are now in Holland, but the jewel in its crown is Germany. http://www.torontosun.com/2014/01/06/germany-out-in-the-coal

With hurricanes, and storms in general, that’s very hard to tell – they’re fairly rare events, so trends are hard to distinguish – but the answer is “very slowly if at all”. Last month the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory released a review of the Read more

Should evil climate deniers be denied the oxygen of publicity? http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100252804/on-why-it-would-be-quite-wrong-to-laugh-about-prof-chris-turkey-and-his-antarctic-ship-of-fools/

Residents across the north-east are being offered the chance to view plans to build a world-leading green energy scheme in the region. http://www.energyvoice.com/2014/01/residents-get-chance-view-peterhead-carbon-capture-plans-meetings/

Two wind turbines installed in a Nottinghamshire park are unlikely to make a financial saving, the authority that bought them has admitted. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25595421

To those of us living our lives in the lowlands, in towns and cities, there is something otherworldly about the Cairngorms. As a mountain range, it may not be the Alps, it may not be the Himalayas, but there is nonetheless something far beyond our normal scale of reference in Read more