Four Generations of Ammonia
The information in this post is taken from the draft version of the book Net Zero by 2050: Technology for a Changing Climate....
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Ian Sutton
- 6 days ago
- 1 min
Climate Change Technologies: Status
In our last post, Evaluating Alternative Energy Sources, we looked at ways of evaluating energy sources. Part of that post was to do with...
Ian Sutton
- Nov 27
- 2 min
Evaluating Alternative Energy Sources
There seems to be no end in the number of ideas that are trotted out for generating “green energy”, for storing energy and for capturing...
Ian Sutton
- Nov 26
- 3 min
Cognitive Dissonance
Who are you going to believe — me, or your own lyin’ eyes? When talking about climate change the term 'Cognitive Dissonance' is usually...
Ian Sutton
- Nov 23
- 4 min
Happy Motoring
Summary Let's continue the analysis of George Will's article to do with climate change. In addition to the factual errors described in a...
Ian Sutton
- Nov 22
- 4 min
A Well-Known Generalist
The previous two posts in this series have discussed the need for generalists to help explain and understand complex issues such as...
Ian Sutton
- Nov 21
- 4 min
The Golden Mean of Climate Change
Yesterday’s post, Who’s the Climate Expert?, discussed the need to listen to generalists rather than specialists when trying to figure...
Ian Sutton
- Nov 20
- 4 min
Who's the Climate Expert?
One of the many challenges that we face when talking about climate change is figuring out who to believe. At events such as COP26 much of...
Ian Sutton
- Nov 15
- 4 min
COP26 and Blah, Blah, Blah
Recent posts at this site have argued that national governments have failed to provide the leadership needed to address the climate...
Ian Sutton
- Nov 12
- 1 min
COP26: The Divergence Continues
The theme of yesterday’s post COP26 and Climate Leadership was that the governments of the world have had three decades to effectively...
Ian Sutton
- Nov 11
- 2 min
COP26 and Climate Leadership
Representatives of the national governments meeting at COP26 in Glasgow have made some progress. Agreements to reduce deforestation and...
Ian Sutton
- Nov 9
- 1 min
Sustaining All Life
The organization Sustaining All Life has organized a series of events to do with the COP26 conference. Here is one of them: Staying...
Ian Sutton
- Nov 8
- 2 min
COP26 and the Dog that Didn't Bark
It's vital for all of us to show that this is not all about some expensive politically correct, green act of bunny-hugging ... This is...
Ian Sutton
- Nov 6
- 2 min
Boris Johnson and the Roman Empire
The following is from Politico. The world risks going "backwards" unless action is taken to combat climate change and could fall "at...
Ian Sutton
- Nov 4
- 2 min
Resilience and COP26
COP26 does not seem to be achieving many results so far. One reason is that government leaders are not willing to commit to reductions in th
Ian Sutton
- Nov 3
- 3 min
Climate Lessons from Virginia
I live in the State of Virginia. Yesterday we held state-wide elections, including the governorship. This race is seen by many pundits as...
Ian Sutton
- Nov 1
- 3 min
The G20 Moving Target
The G20 summit changed the target ‘Net Zero by 2050’ to ‘Net Zero by Mid Century’. This change is discouraging. Without having a numerical v
Ian Sutton
- Oct 24
- 3 min
Reality Check
President Biden expresses a sense of urgency regarding climate change, but does not follow up.
Ian Sutton
- Oct 23
- 2 min
An Existential Threat
On October 21st 2021 President Biden held a Town Hall meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. A transcript of the event is available here. When...
Ian Sutton
- Oct 20
- 4 min
Later and Later
In last week’s post — Too Late — we discussed the insights to do with climate change, resource depletion and biosphere destruction...