Today the Times reported that “The floods that devastated Brechin were not predicted to hit for another 60 years, according to climate change modelling by Scotland’s environmental watchdog”. The 2021 Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) flood risk plan had estimated that about 440 homes and businesses in Brechin would be liable to flooding by the…
Yesterday the Prime Minister was forced to react to a leak and bring forward a speech about his more ‘pragmatic’ approach to Net Zero. A lot of ink has been spilled over the speech and there are extensive minute by minute reports of the speech and this morning’s R4 Today programme interview in the Guardian…
The IMF, Carbon Pricing and Explicit and Implicit Fossil Fuels Subsidies Here are two terms that anyone who wants to preserve a stable climate needs to know: explicit fossil fuel subsidies and implicit fossil fuel subsidies. Explicit fossil fuel subsidies from governments directly reduce the price of fossil fuels, thus making it attractive to investors…
CCI has released a statement at the end of the African Climate Summit today… SEPT. 7, 2023 — Citizens’ Climate International enthusiastically supports a call from the African Climate Summit for a global carbon taxation regime that could be part of the agenda at the COP28 climate conference in Dubai this fall. “In addition to…
With heat extremes removing all doubt about climate change, let’s deal with the cause: Fossil fuels By Steve Valk With record-shattering heat making headlines around the world, this is a good time to connect some dots to see what’s behind the weather extremes affecting people this summer and what needs to be done to keep…
Despite all the evidence that the world can’t remain below 1.5C of global warming if new oil and gas exploitation continues, yesterday the UK Government gave the go ahead for exploration and production in the North Sea. The Government argues that it is essential for energy security, will ensure prices can be lessened and that…
The Met Office has confirmed that the temperatures of last year’s summer, if we keep to a predicted medium emission scenario (Met office modelling that assumes carbon emissions peak around 2045 and then fall) will be considered cool by 2060 and average by 2021, and Antonio Guterres warned later today that “the era of global…
Whilst not asking directly for Climate Income an editorial in The Times today puts the case for a Carbon Tax…..The message from policymakers must be that mitigating climate change can best be tackled through the continual innovations that are characteristic of market economies. And that doing so, using the price mechanism to encourage new technologies,…
Both Labour and Conservative politicians have been spooked by the narrow by-election win in Uxbridge which has been squarely attributed to campaigning on the proposed extension of the Ulez scheme. Few commentators pointed out that Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham and Bradford received a combined £230m in Government funding for their scrappage schemes, but London and the…
Yesterday Professor Sir Bob Watson, (among other roles former Chair of the IPCC), told the Radio 4 Today programme that the world was heading in the wrong direction to keep to the 1.5C global warming target agreed at the Paris COP in 2015…..”I think most people fear that if we give up on the 1.5C…
