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Renewable energy at all hours, year round, globally? The models now say ‘Yes’!

Renewable energy at all hours, year round, globally? The models now say ‘Yes’!

by Andrew Simms | 12 September 2018 | Blog, Rapid Transition

There is no shortage of evidence for humanity’s environmental crises. Data from a global catalogue of recent extreme weather events warns of a climate emergency. But is there also evidence for optimism? Paul Allen, project leader for the Zero Carbon Britain...
Fire and flood: how we are overshooting the Earth

Fire and flood: how we are overshooting the Earth

by Andrew Simms | 30 July 2018 | Blog, Weather Bombs

Our weather extremes are signs of a human population overshooting its planetary home, writes Prof Bill McGuire, what will it take to make us change course? How long can we go on prevaricating? How long can we hedge our bets when deciding if a particular natural...
Leaking water, draining finance: the case for putting water in public hands

Leaking water, draining finance: the case for putting water in public hands

by Andrew Simms | 23 July 2018 | Blog, The Absent Corporation

In the middle of a heatwave and drought, it’s not just the leakage allowed by private water companies (as much as  people actually use), but the money they drain from a vital piece of our national infrastructure that’s the problem, writes Miriam Stewart, from the...
Waves of political nostalgia drown-out a lethal heatwave

Waves of political nostalgia drown-out a lethal heatwave

by Andrew Simms | 9 July 2018 | Blog, Weather Bombs

A record-breaking heatwave hints at a lethal new climate normal, writes Prof Bill McGuire, but you wouldn’t know as the obsession with Brexit drowns out real news Nostalgia is gripping the political agenda and not in a good way, with Brexit harking back to an imagined...
In praise of public purpose: a life story & the NHS 70th anniversary

In praise of public purpose: a life story & the NHS 70th anniversary

by Andrew Simms | 1 July 2018 | Blog

This week is the 70th anniversary of the NHS. It was an extraordinary promise by a society to care for all its members, free at the point of use. It went rapidly from plan to reality in just three years and, decades later, as a mark of its success, the NHS still comes...
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