Copenhagen: No Deal Better Than Bad Deal

The sensible practical view we have been pushing for the last few weeks.

Good interview with the delegate from Tuvalu. Sensible stuff.

Copenhagen: Why the Rush?

Over in Copenhagen the summit goes on. The Guardian reports, Climate Change Talks Stall
So what is going on there. Talk about losing 5 hours of negotiating time as African nations walk out. Negotiators working through the night ahead of heads of state arriving. Activists pushing for an agreement. What sort of agreement seems to have [...]

Copenhagen: The 3 Degrees of Change

 
Population is a major problem, but unfortunately it needs long tern planning to resolve. It has been left too late.
Every time I here about climate tipping points I have to say, no! These are climate only models that say things need to be done in 20 years or 10 years.
Climate models are a simplified abstraction [...]

The Achilles Heel of Copenhagen

Copenhagen should be about defining the best possible trajectory for this planet.
It must fail and should fail because it is flawed. Decisions are being based on those attending having one eye on reducing economic deficits. Caused by the very same Governments not even understanding how to run an economy. Having got that wrong they now [...]

Sustainable Development Research Network Conference

Time for an adventure to London, off to the SDRN conference at the Wellcome Conference Centre, and a chance to save the planet.
Carlisle at midnight as the National Express coach waits.

London and the conference centre

Big breath
 Get ready for the food

Finally got a picture of the sign to say where I was

E. Coli and Childrens Zoos

Well in the UK we have a warning that children under 5 should not touch farm animals by Prof Hugh Pennington. Does this really make sense or is it just another example of ‘counter intuitive policy planning’ as Prof Jay Forrester would say.
Is the problem not that children are infected by E.Coli? But that children are [...]

How the UK Was Flooded

Part of an email sent to a Perth and Kinross Councillor
This is a review of my work in Crewe and Nantwich. I was considered, so I was told, the new Einstein, Darwin, Galileo etc of climate change and Earth system technology.
 http://celticlion.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/executive-summary-review007.jpg
 In 1991 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council asked me to write an executive summary of [...]

2004 Tsunami Update

My thanks to those who have been following the Tsunami story. First the UK Government did have a proposal to have a Tsunami early warning system in the 2001 competition to find the best use for the Millennium Dome London as part of a project to establish a global environmental management centre on the Greenwich [...]

At Least 3 UK Cabinet Ministers Know of an Early Warning System Prior to the 2004 SE Asia Tsunami

Three Cabinet Ministers know the UK Government turned down a Tsunami early warning system, to be based in the UK, prior to the 2004 South East Asia Tsunami. The early warning system was part of the proposal to use the Millennium Dome as a centre for global environmental management.

The early warning system was part of the [...]

Lockerbie: The UK’s Biggest Terrorist Incident?

This should be of some interest to you. A legal conundrum and terrorist related to the judicial process of Lockerbie. Most importantly an exploration of serious limitations in Scottish Law.
 (On the recommendation of DEFRA I have also advised the UK Cabinet Office on aspects of Regulatory Impact Assessment)
 I haven’t gone into all the side issues [...]