Shell also supports the UK Government’s ambition to increase the uptake of electric vehicles and believes the phase out date for sales of new internal combustion engine vehicles could be brought forward to 2030…. However, this could only be delivered through a robust government plan to make the transition fair and deliverable. (Shell, “Electric Mobility“)
In “Why We need a Plan to Achieve the Ban,” UK Country Chair Sinead Lynch of Shell stated:
… Continue ReadingI recently participated in a discussion hosted by Climate Action on ‘Rising to the Net-Zero Challenge’. My fellow panellists were John Sauven, Executive Director Greenpeace UK and Shaun Spiers, Executive Director Green Alliance.
Greening the recovery was, of course, a key topic of conversation and led us to discuss the government’s plans to bring the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars forward to 2035.
“Is Trump right about the more-working-class-view that water efficient plumbing fixtures and appliances are unnecessary and costly?”
“If a household were to conserve 25 percent of its indoor water it would amount to 7/100ths (0.07) of one-acre-foot of total system water in a year; a mere drop in the bucket.”
At a December 6, 2019 White House meeting with the Small Business Roundtable, Donald Trump made the following remarks about “opening up” national standards for water efficient bathroom fixtures and appliances:
… Continue ReadingWe’re using common sense. We have a situation where we’re looking very strongly at sinks and showers and other elements of bathrooms where you turn the faucet on — in areas where there’s tremendous amounts of water, where the water rushes out to sea because you could never handle it — and you don’t get any water.
“[This paper is] the most important climate science paper that’s come out in several years…. [It’s] really moved the game away from these questions about the physics of the climate system into questions about how are humans going to react to climate change.”
– Andrew Dessler. Quoted in “Groundbreaking Study: Earth Will Warm 4.9 to 7 Degress F.” E&E News, July 23, 2020.
“During the period of strongest greenhouse gas forcing (since 1979), the latest CMIP6 models reveal 50% more net surface warming from 1979 up to April 2020 (+1.08 deg. C) than do the observations (+0.72 deg. C).”
– Roy Spencer, “CMIP6 Climate Models …” June 25, 2020.
An alleged breakthrough, hold-the-presses moment has arrived–right during the summer heat and just in time for a Presidential election to give the problematic Green New Deal veneer.…
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