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11 Jul 2006
Well it has arrived. No surprises. I wanted to welcome its arrival, and its effective waving goodbye to any kind of concerted national Powerdown by sharing with you this card I found in a card shop in St. Ives, which somehow for me encapsulates the role Government has chosen to play in all this. I love the guy furthest to the right, looks like he died and the rest of them couldn’t do without him around so they had him stuffed and propped up in his favourite chair.
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11 Jul 2006
‘Peak Oil’, a new film produced by Australian Four Corners broadband in Australia, is an excellent new documentary on peak oil, and is a great example of online films. It features Colin Campbell, Robert Hirsch, Chris Skrebowski among others in a powerful summarisation of the peak oil case. The reporter, Jonathan Holmes, travels around the world trying to assess the global picture, visiting Kuwait and Alberta among other places. Running at about 50 minutes, it is
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11 Jul 2006
Last Friday’s Independent ran a piece called How a ‘green’ Britain should look in the year 2020, which reported on a study by ADAS, a body which specialises in supplying advice on the environment, which looked at how the Government’s present renewables targets will affect land use in the UK. The results were very disappointing, and highlighted the delusional thinking in Government circles in relation to the whole peak oil question. Reading between the lines is a skill we all need to learn and fast.
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5 Jul 2006
**Bjorn Lomborg** is Environmentalist Baiter Supreme, the one guy with some letters after his name who is wheeled out in the media to represent the scientific face of climate denial. Despite having been accused of scientific dishonesty by the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty, he is still out there, touting his free market ideas. This Sunday’s Observer newspaper included an article by Lomborg called Climate change can wait. World health Can’t.
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23 Jun 2006
**Greenpeace** have just launched an excellent new film called Decentralised Energy – what are we waiting for?, which sets out a very clear argument for decentralised energy. It runs for 18 minutes and is narrated by Clive Anderson. The film sets out a very clear argument for a profound rethink of the National Grid, using the argument that climate change means we have a rapidly reduce carbon emissions, rather than
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Well it has arrived. No surprises. I wanted to welcome its arrival, and its effective waving goodbye to any kind of concerted national Powerdown by sharing with you this card I found in a card shop in St. Ives, which somehow for me encapsulates the role Government has chosen to play in all this. I love the guy furthest to the right, looks like he died and the rest of them couldn’t do without him around so they had him stuffed and propped up in his favourite chair. 
