In a blog entry in December I talked about the push the British government is undertaking as far as the promotion of heat pumps is concerned. A recently published report by the National Audit Office (NAO) shows that the assumptions on consumer demand for heat pumps are ‘optimistic’: Between May 2022 and December 2023 only […]
Tag: climate change
Fear of eating out
There can be no doubt that the cost of living crisis is taking its toll: but while we all are more cost conscious, personally I wasn’t prepared for what a study by the British restaurant chain Prezzo found: 86% Gen Z (that’s people born from the mid-1990s to the early 2010s) encounters “menu anxiety,” a […]
Climate Change – The Weakest Link
As the COP28 is underway in Dubai, the threats of climate change and its remedies are (or should) be on our minds and in this context I read an interesting article in The Economist in late summer, telling me that about 12% of the EU’s greenhouse-gas emissions emanate from residential heating. This is well below […]
Clean air – 70 years on from the Great Smog of London
5 December 2022 marked the 70th anniversary of the Great Smog of London when a period of unusually cold weather, combined with an anticyclone and windless conditions, collected airborne pollutants—mostly arising from the use of coal-fired heating—to form a thick layer of smog over the city. It lasted from Friday 5 December to Tuesday 9 […]
COP27 – A bit like Groundhog Day
Do you remember the movie Groundhog Day released in 1993, where a weatherman is sent to cover a story about a weather forecasting “rat” (as he calls it) and finds himself in a time loop until he gets it right? Somehow the annual COP-shindigs remind me of exactly this situation: At each conference lots of […]
COP26 by private jet
Of course, I wouldn’t expect heads of state to fly economy class to Glasgow to attend the COP26. Of course the billionaires and titans of industry attending the gathering have such busy schedules that only a flight by private jet at the timing of their convenience could guarantee the best use of their very precious […]
The COP26 President’s travels
Unless you follow British politics or are involved in the climate change movement you probably won’t have heard of Alok Sharma, Britain’s climate minister. And in his official role as President for COP 26, the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, he has made a major contribution – for the worse – to climate change […]
Apple’s green credentials
Apple made a point at its product launches this autumn to emphasise its green credentials. But how green is Apple really? I just treated myself to a new Apple iPad Air (not least to write my blog posts) from my local electronics store in Switzerland, and since the Apple Pencil was cheaper from Apple’s Swiss […]
Greta v Roger
Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish climate activist has an axe to grind with Roger Federer, our Swiss tennis champion! And to be honest not only her, but many other young activists from around the world have been criticising Roger Federer for jetting around the world (some 80’000 kilometers apparently since the ATP tournament in Shanghai […]
The grumpy older man 