Before we started Lost Heat, before we thought of making a website or canvassing shopkeepers, there was another website and initiative about which we knew nothing. It was only on 28 November this year that I noticed a sign on the door of a shop in the middle of Cambridge. That led me to their website at Close The Door. …
Carl Sagan: If you ask what determines the Earth’s climate, clearly the main thing that determines it is sunlight. Sunlight is what heats the Earth. Not all the light that arrives at the Earth from the sun goes to heating the Earth. Some of it is reflected back. It’s just the part that is absorbed. And what happens is there’s …
The population of Norway is 5.457 million with an area of 385,207 square kilometres (148,729 sq mi). The population of Great Britain is 66.97 million with an area of 209,331 km2 (80,823 sq mi). From these figures, the population density of Britain is twenty-four times that of Norway. And when we look at the main urban centres, London has a …
Fossil fuels store energy. Assuming you have extracted enough, you can meet your needs and produce energy on demand by burning them. Solar is different, The fuel store is the sun, but when it’s cloudy the source dries up until the sun shines again. Wind is different. When the wind drops the source dried up. That has been the problem …
Coal accounted for 53% of power generation in May 2024 (source). That sounds bad and it is. But the bigger picture is that solar energy is rising fast. And despite the increased energy demand year on year, the estimate is that China reached peak emissions in 2023.
I guess that just about every man and woman on the street in 2024 could make the environmental argument. The argument is that it is bad for the environment for shops to keep their doors open and the heating on in winter. And it is bad to keep their shop doors open and the air conditioning on in summer. OK, …
Arrgh, Disaster looms! Well, that will push people along and you might think it is a laudable way to get people to do good. The problem with it is that it tacitly makes the argument that doing all the things we do is OK so long as the consequence is that we do not cause global warming that leads to …
Indeed I did. Did it get the necessary 100,000 signatures so it had to be debated in Parliament? Not by a long shot. and I did ‘attach’ to the result for a while – thinking that maybe it was a bad idea. But then I thought maybe there were people who read the petition, didn’t sign, but did shut their …