Environmental blog with a focus on climate change.
By Anders Lorenzen The carbon price at the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) yesterday fell to an all time low at just €2.81, fuelling questions about the systems capability to reduce CO2 […]
Obama takes oath at yesterdays inauguration. By Anders Lorenzen As President Barack Obama was yesterday officially sworn in for his second term as the 44th President of the USA, he gave the […]
We’re still on course to catastrophic climate change. By Anders Lorenzen One certainty in the world of climate science is that climate sceptics are constantly looking for gaps in how climate science […]
By Anders LorenzenAs Australia battles forest fires and new temperature records as a result of extreme hot weather, the topical question is, yet again, whether this extreme weather is being caused by […]
Construction of the Anholt offshore wind farm in Denmark By Anders Lorenzen 2012 was dominated by a lot of uncertainty in the renewable energy sector, but there is general optimism within the […]
Shell’s drilling platform runs aground of the Alaskan coast. By Anders Lorenzen After a year dominated by having Greenpeace on their backs, oil giant Shell would had hoped for a gentler and […]
Symptons of ash die back. By Anders Lorenzen UK nature lovers and conservationists were devastated when the news broke that the UK’s ash trees are greatly at risk from a virile fungus […]
By Anders Lorenzen 2012 was a complex year for environmentalists; dark warnings were brought by the climate, however there were also flickers of hope eg. in the form of advancements in research […]
Nantes metropolis boasts of 250 km of rivers and streams. By Anders Lorenzen EU Environment Commissioner, Janez Potočnik, has passed the European Green Capital title on from the Spanish city of Vitoria-Gasteiz […]
By Alan Miller “Wind farms to increase energy bills by £178 a year,” thundered The Telegraph on the 22nd November. “Electricity bills to rise by £100-a-year to help pay for more wind […]
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