Over the past 30-40 years, the UK has moved away from coal to create electricity, replacing it with mainly gas and renewables. But renewables have increased nowhere near enough to power the UK, leaving the UK reliant on gas to create 40% of the UK’s electricity, driving high energy prices. From 1995 to 2004, North …
High energy prices – the UK strategy towards foreign gas to blame Read More »
Novak Djokovic has just won his seventh Wimbledon title but currently cannot win the US Open for a fourth time because the US Government has a ban on unvaccinated international travelers entering the country. But the latest data on the likelihood of someone testing positive for Covid-19 shows that Djokovic would be just as likely …
US ban on the unvaccinated like Djokovic is not scientific Read More »
Earlier this year the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, announced a joint new migration and economic development partnership with Rwanda with the aim to curb people-smuggling across the English Channel but the latest data suggests the UK is on course for a record number of channel migrants by September of this year. Since announcing the plan …
Over recent years, Henry Charles Albert David, also known as Prince Harry, has preached to the masses about the environment but rarely hear him talk of his own carbon footprint. He recently appeared in a comedy sketch in New Zealand to encourage sustainable travel. A few years ago, he posted on Instagram that “every choice, …
Harry’s Jubilee flight 18x the carbon footprint of the average Brit Read More »
Through the COVID-19 pandemic, countries introduced many measures to control the spread of the virus. One such measure was a requirement to show proof of vaccination for international travel. Many countries have scrapped this although prominent European countries such as Germany and Spain*, still require proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test. The travel …
Travel madness continues despite vaccines not stopping Covid Read More »
The war in Ukraine and the reliance of many countries on commodities from Russia for energy have reopened the debate on energy security. This goes along with the increasing prominence of reducing Co2 emissions as countries pledge to hit net zero. The UK Government has launched its new energy strategy with a target that 95% …
China emits 30% of global Co2 emissions up from 5% in 1965 Read More »
An article in the Daily Mail questions the official Covid death toll, citing examples of terminally ill patients having Covid recorded as the cause of death. Early in the pandemic, there was a lack of testing, and doctors certified some deaths through video calls. This has led to critics claiming that assumptions were made and …
Over the pandemic, the impact of Covid-19 on children has been a contentious subject, with medics called out for misleading the public on the impact of the virus. Many commentators have exaggerated the impact of long Covid and new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows the percentage of primary and secondary school …
I recently wrote looking at the outcome of deaths in January compared with the SAGE modelling before Christmas. I said it would be clearer when more data was available from the ONS, so have updated the blog with this. The official data shows that the reality was the peak in Covid-19 deaths was 93% lower …
This week the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) reaffirmed that Covid-19 is very low risk to children aged 5 to 11. It would take four million doses of a vaccine to prevent one admission to intensive care. So with Covid at such low risk, is there any benefit to vaccination? Vaccination would only …
4 million doses in children needed to prevent 1 icu admission Read More »
