Daily archives: February 5, 2008


Climate change denial can lead to poverty

Iain Martin roles out is a tired old argument that I’ve heard several times before. So this is as good a time as any to reply.

but it makes no sense to send our economy, or those of developing countries, into reverse gear on the back of apocalyptic warnings by those who enjoy predicting disaster

Really? Who is going to build the windmills? Manufacture and mount the solar panels? Build all the low energy houses? Bring existing houses up to standard? Where are they going to spend the billions that stand to be made? What are home owners going to do with the money they save by cutting down on waste?

How blinkered do you have to be to miss the huge opportunities that are available to the early adopters of energy saving technologies? You can finesse your arguments against climate change as much as you want, but you’d be an idiot if you couldn’t see the advantages of switching to renewables and becoming more efficient.

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Memory – now available on dvd

A dvd of Memory is now available through Lulu. Get all five episodes, the trailer, outtakes and a slideshow.

Rob may be turning into a machine, side effects from the revolutionary cancer treatment he’s undergoing. He turns to the only person he feels he can trust- Hannah, the daughter of his long dead business partner.

With help from her friend George she looks into the legal and philosophical implications, until she starts getting mysterious messgaes about her father’s death.


Bye bye pear tree


Bye bye pear tree, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.

This is the pear tree two gardens over being dismembered. The owners of the house ripped up their front garden and laid paving last year. I think they’re trying to increase run off so lower lying houses flood and the value of theirs goes up.