Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

Pumping frack dash, it’s a gas, gas, gas?

26th September 2022

The selection of Liz Truss as the new UK Prime Minister at the start of the month was completely overshadowed by the death of Queen...

We won’t hit Net Zero by wishful thinking

20th September 2022

The internal documents that have emerged during the US congressional hearing showing Big Oil's, ahem, creative approach to Net Zero climate targets take the breath...

Green Queen (and King)

12th September 2022

The Royal Family has long followed that tradition of upper-class British environmentalists who see no contradiction between saving wildlife and shooting it (Peter Scott, who...

Message to our next PM: Climate Cakeism Won’t Cut It

5th September 2022

Here in the UK, the long, tedious slog to take over as Prime Minister from the disgraced Boris Johnson finally comes to an end today....

The killer question is: can we really afford fossil fuels?

30th August 2022

In our high-carbon economy, everything is dictated by the cost of oil and gas. From an economic point of view, this was fine and dandy...

Brum, Brum, Brum

22nd August 2022

So, my first day back after a far-too relaxing fortnight's summer holiday. For the first week, we hired a narrowboat and explored a loop of...

Climate Change: What difference can I make on my own?

1st August 2022

Regular readers will know that I often get into online arguments with those who believe that climate change is all the fault of 'neoliberalism' (whatever...

“Can we afford net zero?” is the last stand of the climate deniers

26th July 2022

It has been really interesting, if somewhat depressing, watching the so-called debate over climate change evolve over the last 15-20 years. Given the basics of...

Week Two of ‘Who wants to be Prime Minister?’ – the net zero angle

18th July 2022

So, we're now down to five candidates to be the UK's next Prime Minister and they've had two TV debates to show the wider population...

Whither the UK’s Net Zero Commitment?

11th July 2022

As I've said before, one of outgoing UK PM Boris Johnson's few redeeming characteristics (in my opinion!) was his conversion away from 'lukewarmism' and commitment...

Gareth’s Blog