I’m not a biologist, and so am open to correction, but I believe there may be some biologists about who may be able to confirm that this, from the Telegraph, is what we physics types call ‘bollocks’:
Previous studies have shown that a herd of 200 cows can produce annual emissions of methane – roughly equivalent [...]
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125mpg/cow
Posted in green, tagged cowflop on 25 May, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Compulsory, or just unavoidable?
Posted in green, tagged fuel tax, traffic lights on 9 April, 2009 | 12 Comments »
I am, quite frankly, surprised at the response of Obnoxio and Bristol Dave to this story in the Telegraph.
Not knowing whether the Telegraph is about to join other elements of the MSM in taking exception to being quoted (this having been discussed with a commenter earlier), I feel that the art of précis should be [...]
I’m not eating this. It’s got ingredients in it
Posted in green, tagged GM crops on 8 April, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Just for the record, I am opposed to the use in the UK of genetically-modified crops.
Not, I hasten to add, because I really believe all those scare stories (such as: How can you tell that a farmer is growing GM crops? Well, there’s a sign outside, that says ‘Chase your own raspberries’), but because of [...]
Only language they understand
Posted in green, tagged polar bears on 29 March, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Independent thought of definitive quality from The Cautionary Revelation:
Polar Bears… are, let’s face it, pretty ugly. I mean, despite being kind of bear cuddly, their long noses and floppy swaging walk style is just horrible to watch. So if we are going to do something in the Polar Bear department, we should rather go out [...]
A reasonable maximum
Posted in green, tagged population on 23 March, 2009 | 18 Comments »
Howls of outrage from The Devil, The Lone Voice and Old Holborn (leg-iron) at this article in the Times, in which it says that
JONATHON PORRITT, one of Gordon Brown’s leading green advisers, is to warn that Britain must drastically reduce its population if it is to build a sustainable society.
Leaving aside all the piffle [...]
Nothing short of fraud
Posted in green, tagged allotments on 19 February, 2009 | 10 Comments »
As a Libertarian I’m not very keen on the idea of unnecessary laws. Having but a few laws, clear and understood by all, and actually enforced, would make this country a very much better place in a number of important ways.
Should there be a law against fraud? It does not involve ‘the initiation of force’. [...]
Natural-wool filled, low-energy lighthouses
Posted in green, tagged National Trust on 6 February, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Miscellaneous harrumphment time: having woken up beneath the utterly reliable Daily Telegraph I have elected to eject my monocle at this:
Every mansion, light house, castle and farm in public ownership will be fully insulated by the National Trust in the next five years in a drive to make the nation’s heritage more environmentally friendly.
I know [...]
Outergarments should be seen and not heard
Posted in green, tagged kit on 6 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Or, as a long-forgotten ’style guru’ put it, ’scene and not herd’.
Despite usually agreeing with every word he says I have to differ on this occasion from An Englishman on the subject of outergarments.
I do not doubt for a moment that he is right in every detail of his fine technical analysis of the woollen [...]
Monbiot on the AGA
Posted in green, tagged AGA, Monbiot on 16 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Further to the last post it turns out (h/t The Libertarian Alliance) that the unique George Monbiot is now launching a campaign against ‘Agas’.
He is perhaps unaware that AGA (whose main business, asyermayn’t know, is in lighthouse and buoy lighting equipment) stopped making solid-fuel cookers some time ago; there was no demand. People nowadays don’t [...]
A Counterblast to Greenwash
Posted in green, tagged greenwash, RE systems on 16 January, 2009 | 6 Comments »
From the Independent, a story about Tory greenwash:
A Conservative Government will cut Britain’s greenhouse gas emissions with a £1 billion investment in a high-tech National Grid network with a “smart meter” in every home, David Cameron said… The proposed smart grid would allow energy companies to tell people when they can buy electricity at the [...]
