Tuesday, January 4, 2005
Climate Change - an Update (Part 1)
It's been 200 years since industrialisation got underway and, in the space of that geological milisecond, we have increased the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by 35%; a third of that has appeared in the last four decades. Other greenhouse gases are on the increase, too. As a...
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Sunday, December 12, 2004
It's Great to be Home!
We flew the 14 hours back to London on an overnight flight, arriving at London Heathrow at 5.30am on Friday morning. After clearing immigration, baggage collection and Customs, we took the Tube right across London to Kings Cross, and jumped on the 8.30am to Newcastle. we spent some of the journey...
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Tuesday, December 7, 2004
Climate-Change Deniers Still Clinging On!
Jethro, in his 'No Liberal Left Behi nd' blog, has written a blog suggesting, on the basis of an article written in (can you believe it?) 1975, that climate change is a myth put about by nasty left-wing types to fetter decent businesses and corporations from making profits. I had to comment, of...
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Saturday, September 11, 2004
The US Budget Deficit - And the Price of Oil
The Deficit Timebomb The phrase of the week has to be: "Regaining traction." That's how Alan Greenspan summed up the US economy yesterday, citing a rebound in jobs growth in August coupled with upward consumer spending momentum in July. Somewhat surprisingly, though, given the rapid run-up in oil...
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Tuesday, September 7, 2004
Kiss Goodbye to Your Overtime
In celebration of the working person's holiday, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao has announced the Bush Administration's plan to end the 60-year-old law which requires employers to pay time-and-a-half for overtime. I'm sure you already knew that -- if you happened to have run across page 15,576 of...
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Friday, September 3, 2004
Bush Orders an Invasion of the Social Security Trust Fund
Of all the bone-headed, whacky, breathtakingly threatening schemes George W. Bush is trying to sell us in his acceptance speech tonight is something he and his handlers call, "the Ownership Society." Sounds cool, "ownership." Everyone gets a piece of the action. Everyone's a winner as the economy...
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Thursday, September 2, 2004
Oil on the March Again
After an eight-day correction, the price of oil has resumed its relentless rise. Yesterday, US light crude went up by $2.13 to $44.25 a barrel, and London Brent crude was $2 higher at $41.61 a barrel. The increase came as the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) said crude stocks dropped 4.2...
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Sunday, August 29, 2004
Olympic Ideals and All That Guff
The Olympics is over. I saw one race. But I have been thinking about it a fair bit, and I am very disappointed by what I see. For a start, take those revered Olymic ideals. A quick trawl around Google reveals that there is not even much agreement on what the ideals actually ARE!! The most common...
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Tuesday, August 17, 2004
The Scottish Parliament in Massive Grass Deal
The new Scottish Parliament building is turning into one of the biggest and costliest white elephants to be thrust on the UK since that bloody Millennium Dome in Greenwich. The original cost estimate was £41 million, and it was due to be finished in 2002. The current cost is $419 million - an...
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Monday, August 16, 2004
John Kerry's Sensible Energy Policy
FOR months, John Kerry has been bashing George Bush on energy. Mr Bush's foreign wars, he argues, have increased the risk of America's reliance on oil from the turbulent Middle East. Policies at home amount to coddling for Mr Bush's pals in the energy industry. And the president's policies are...
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