It was an ordinary April, not unlike any other ordinary April (even in spite of the bitterly cold spell we faced in the UK) and yet it has proven another historic month. According to the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii, April saw “carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s atmosphere reach ‘highest level in 800,000 years”: CO2 levels…
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The importance of context: why Iceland’s colossal electricity consumption is not so bad after all…
Having just been out in Iceland with my students where we visited one of their vast networks of geothermal greenhouses it comes as no surprise to me to find that Iceland currently consumes the most electricity per capita than any other country in the world. I may not have put it at number 1, but…
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