There is a meme that occasionally turns up in Facebook newsfeeds that goes something like this: “It’s pretty amazing that our society has reached a point where the effort necessary to extract oil from the ground, ship it to a refinery, turn it into plastic, shape it appropriately, truck it …

There is something very wrong in the world when climate campaigners find themselves on the same side of an energy debate as arch climate change denier Lord Lawson.  That, however, is exactly where we find ourselves following the government’s insane decision to proceed with the nuclear power plant at Hinkley …

In the run up to last year’s general election, following a complaint from Labour peer Lord Lipsey, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)  banned a Greenpeace advertisement which claimed that: “Fracking threatens our climate, our countryside and our water. Yet experts agree – it won’t cut our energy bills.” According to …

There are some things that you simply cannot say without producing howls of outrage.  Here’s one of them: you will not solve the problem of climate change even if you generate all of the world’s electricity from renewables.  The truth of this statement is self-evident if you take the trouble …

We have long known that elderly rich white men are the group most likely to deny the existence of man-made climate change.  And in a statement of the blindingly obvious last week, the Black Lives Matter campaign pointed out that poor Black and Asian people in developing countries (and to …

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has given the go-ahead for the MeyGen tidal energy project in the Pentland Firth between the Orkney Islands and the mainland.  The scheme, which initially involves deploying 86 1MW offshore tidal stream turbines, is expected to generate up to 398MW by the early 2020s. The …

A year after the incoming Tory government cancelled carbon capture and storage (CCS) funding, a committee of MPs has argued that the new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy should put CCS front and centre of UK energy policy. According to the MPs, previous problems with CCS stem from …

There’s nothing quite like turbulence to trigger an adrenaline rush in the average airline passenger.  And according to climate scientists, changes to air flow in the upper atmosphere will cause more and stronger turbulence above the Atlantic Ocean in future: “It is predicted there will be more and more incidents …

On the back of the slow collapse of the Italian banking industry, Italy is just three all too plausible steps away from destroying the Eurozone according to John Hulsman at City Am: Step one is that Prime Minister Matteo Renzi loses the autumn referendum on reform of the political system …

As the revamped UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy casts around for an energy policy that might just keep the lights on, they could do a lot worse than turn to the Tories’ favourite daily newspaper for a lead.  That’s the conclusion of climate campaigner and solar energy …