Carbon Pricing : Kill or Cure?
11:45 | Carbon Pricing. Carbon Tax. Emissions Trading. Call it what you will.
Chasing Methane : Big Brother is watching!
12:10 | Methane bubbling out of the arctic, accelerating the amplification of temperature rises in that region, plus a billion or so belching cows around the world spewing out millions of tons of CH4 every year. Are these the only culprits for increased methane?
Funding The Climate Breakdown : How can it be stopped?
11:17 | We all know the impact that fossil fuels, backed by huge government tax subsidies are having on the climate. What’s less well publicised are the mind boggling levels of investment that they have also been pouring into Oil, Coal and Gas.
IPCC : Accelerating Ice Melt and Rapidly Warming Oceans
17:04 | The IPCC have just released the third of three special reports on the perilous state of our our climate. We take a brief look at some of their headline findings and recommendations.
How much water is in my steak?!?
13:32 | Water is not something you expect to ooze out of your nice juicy rare rib eye. But the amount of water that goes into producing that slab of beef may surprise you.
Regenerative Agriculture – Part 2
11:23 | Regenerative Agriculture has been around for a very long time. The trouble is it’s just not the way most modern farming techniques are taught or practiced.
Regenerative Agriculture – Part 1
15:45 | Some people think that all we need to do is take some lessons from the way nature has always used it’s resources to regulate heat across our blue planet.
Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century
15:15 | Nuclear energy has been a source of somewhat emotive debate since its discovery in the 1930’s. We take a look at the current status of the global Nuclear Energy industry and the role it may play in the fast approaching energy transition.
Grand Solar Minimum is coming. And..?
16:26 | Our sun is reaching the end of it’s normal 11 year cycle and is now approaching a period of minimum solar activity. Some say it’s the real cause of climate change and that it’s going to wreak havoc with our weather systems.
Top ten reasons NOT to buy an electric vehicle (and why each one is wrong!)
16:19 | Electric vehicles. To buy or not to buy? All the major manufacturers are investing billions in research and development to bring us some spectacular electric choices.
Decarbonisation in the USA : New report says “SLOW DOWN!”
15:41 | A new report from energy consultants Wood Mackenzie suggests caution and a slower transition. We look at their findings.
Methane: The Arctic’s hidden climate threat
14:02 | A methane burst from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf could happen at any time and needs only a trigger. That’s the conclusion of the world’s leading research scientist in that region – Natalia Shakhova.
One Belt One Road – Xi Jinping’s Green Vision?
15:44 | The New Silk Road is quite simply the most ambitious social and civil engineering project since the Marshall Plan. But is President Xi Jinping’s vision one of a green utopian future or will his plans cause even more climate chaos?
Hydrogen for heating our homes
14:03 | We focus on the potential of hydrogen for heating our homes – something that is being enthusiastically embraced by the UK government.
Energy Storage in Hydrogen : Does this beat batteries?
12:25 | Traditional batteries have some limitations, not least in capacity and duration of storage. Hydrogen has no such limitations and as a result it’s rapidly gaining attention as a potential market disrupter.
TESLA batteries : Are they the Holy Grail of Climate Change?
12:19 | Huge advances in battery technology now mean that energy can be stored as it’s generated, giving national grid operators an instant solution for smoothing demand and bringing domestic micro-generation to hundreds of millions of people.
Pompeo’s CIA (Climate Insanity Again!)
15:47 | Most of the Arctic Council agreed that Climate Change was a clear and present danger that required extremely careful stewardship. But Mike Pompeo represented a voice of dissent that effectively scuppered any progress.
Climate Change : How Land Use is accelerating the crisis
12:31 | Global Warming and Climate Change have two well known culprits : Energy and Transport. But there are two more co-conspirators contributing catastrophically to the crisis. Those partners are Land Use and Intensive Livestock Farming.
Climate Change : How to survive past 2050
15:37 | We look at a new report just out from the International Renewable Energy Agency, which provides a stark assessment of what’s required.
Extinction Rebellion Occupy London : VIDEO DIARY 4 of 4
11:43 | By the time the police began to clear the Pink Boat from Oxford Circus, the Extinction Rebels had clearly become quite emotionally attached to it and were reluctant to give it up without a (non-violent) struggle.
Extinction Rebellion Occupy London : VIDEO DIARY 3 of 4
15:37 | Extinction Rebellion were expected to have been removed from the streets of London well before Good Friday. But their peaceful protest completely wrong footed the authorities and they still held the same key areas on 19th April 2019.
Extinction Rebellion Occupy London : VIDEO DIARY 2 OF 4
10:10 | Extinction Rebellion were still holding strong in London on Wednesday 17th April 2019. In the second of four video diaries I go out again to meet some of the protestors and gauge local reaction.
Extinction Rebellion Occupy London : VIDEO DIARY 1 OF 4
18:06 | Extinction Rebellion put their plan to occupy London into action on Monday 15th April 2019. This is the first of four video diaries of my travels around the various occupied sites during the week to track progress of the protest.
Paris Agreement has failed. What now?
12:18 | People are now taking more and more direct action to start forcing the issue with the sort of urgency that is so desperately required.
Blue Ocean Event : Game Over?
17:54 | A Blue Ocean Event, or Ice-Free Arctic, is the source of almost fever pitch speculation in the climate science world.
Climate Change and The Great Ocean Conveyor
13:31 | The Great Ocean Conveyor, The Thermohaline Circulation, The Gulf Stream, AMOC… all terms we hear quite a lot these days.
Will renewables end up as more landfill?
15:30 | Have we neglected to consider how we will deal with millions of panels and turbines when they come to the end of their useful lives?
Greenland Ice Sheet : Is it stable?
12:05 | The Greenland Ice Sheet has been on a rapid downward spiral for at least a couple of decades, but in 2018 it seemed to begin recovering. This week we look at what happened and whether or not this is good news for the future.
Arctic Sea Ice Loss : What’s the latest?
16:40 | NOAA released their 2018 Arctic Report Card back in December with some fairly stark warnings about the status of that region.
Climate Crisis : New 2019 UK Report
13:22 | Climate and Environmental Crisis. That’s the message of a new report published this week by the Institute of Public Policy Research in the UK.
Lab Grown Meat. Would you?
11:26 | Lab Grown Meat. Cultured meat. Clean meat. Call it what you will. It’s arrived and it’ll be on a table near you this year.
Graphene and Climate Change. Really?
13:31 | Graphene. The miracle material. Much has been expected but not much delivered. Now, though, Graphene is showing some clear advantages and benefits to climate mitigation technology.
Polar Vortex. What? Why? How?
9:07 | The strong indications are that, ironically, it’s the warming of the planet that’s causing this phenomenon to impact on populated areas of the Northern Hemisphere in more and more extreme ways.
Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS)
12:21 | BECCS, or Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage, is a technology that the IPCC has factored into their climate modelling.
Direct Air Capture Technology
13:40 | Capturing the excess CO2 from our atmosphere will be absolutely critical to our ability to meet the goals of the Paris agreement, but there’ll always be someone who spots an opportunity to make a profit along the way!
Can Earth sustain 11 billion humans?
14:47 | Despite a dramatic reduction in fertility rates since 1950, our global population continues to rise.