Carbon dioxide in the air, cancer and death
Professor Mark Z Jacobson of Stanford University, California has an impressive series of qualifications. He is a civil engineer, holds qualifications in economics and in environmental engineering (he...
View ArticleAn unhealthy future as the climate changes
Professor Robert Maynard has chaired a panel which, under the auspices of the Department of Health and the Health Protection Agency, has done some very interesting work on how climate change is likely...
View ArticleHospital car parking and climate change – a national Health service disgrace
Climate change, almost unreported eight years ago when I established Genersys is now a subject that has become for many a marketing opportunity and for others an excuse for bad behaviour, shameful...
View ArticleBiomass, wood smoke, particulates and cancers
When we breathe in we inhale not only air but dust, and very small particles of stuff that we humans have put in the atmosphere. We know that these can be harmful – coal dust and asbestos dust spring...
View ArticleAir pollution causes deep vein thrombosis and other problems
Particulate air pollution seems to be even worse for you than we previously thought. I have already written in these posts about the problems that biomass pollution can cause and I have also written...
View ArticlePoisoning the Niger Delta and Shell’s Corporate Responsibilty
While millions of people in the Balkans and Eastern Europe have to cope in the bitter cold of a European winter without being able to burn natural gas for fuel gas, due to a dispute between Russia and...
View ArticleEnconomic boom causes environmental bust
It has been hard not to think about the economic crisis now gripping the world. After many years of high growth and plenty of boom, but only for the select few, we are now finding that the boom has...
View ArticleControl Orders – why we do not need them
The highest court in the United Kingdom is the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords and it has ruled that people suspected of terrorism and who have control orders placed on them have a right to...
View ArticleRecord Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Energy in 2010
The big news of the month of May came at its very end. The International Energy Agency estimates that carbon dioxide emissions due to energy – heat and electricity – rose to a record level in 2010. In...
View ArticleClimate Change Deniers – why am I wrong?
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction,Newtontold us. With climate change writingNewton’s law does not invariably apply. I know that sometimes when I post some ideas about climate...
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