Meanwhile prime minister Boris Johnson yesterday denied there was a crisis, but also said that the UK’s “world leading” logistics industry could fix it. But one UK forwarder said the prime minster wa… (View Post)

Plenty, I imagine, and they'd have a point. If we had installed more renewable capacity, we wouldn't be having to burn so much expensive gas to generate our electricity. (View Post)

I clearly remember that half the country was practically begging for lockdown during the last week before Johnson finally took action. Indeed, many people had voluntarily taken steps to try to cut do… (View Post)

There was some fears in the 1970s that increasing levels of particulate pollution could trigger another ice age, but even then it was quickly realised that greenhouse warming would predominate. By th… (View Post)

That was before the right became subservient to the interests of the fossil fuel industries and rational thought from that quarter was effectively neutered for the next few decades. (View Post)