Yes. A sensible safety margin means that a drought has to be more severe to cause serious difficulties. (View Post)

There's some tentative evidence of tourism in places like Norway benefiting from people looking for an alternative to 40C in the Mediterranean summer. In principle Canada and Russia will see agr… (View Post)

The Senate currently has 53 Republicans, so the Democrats need to make 4 gains to take control of the Senate. To make 4 gains the Democrats would need to win Maine, North Carolina and two from Ohio, … (View Post)

I think efficiency is always a benefit, so I would support improved insulation, LED lighting, air fryers, etc, but when some people talk about demand reduction it sounds like rationing. (View Post)

One problem has been that, at every stage, politicians have insisted that the population won't be increasing so much. Eastern Europeans weren't expected to come to Britain in such large num… (View Post)