Author: Marie
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Population and climate
The climate emergency, cost-of-living crisis and wellbeing are the top concerns of young people in the UK and I argue that the latter two issues can be reduced if climate change and energy poverty are properly addressed. ‘Too many people’ may be true in respect of, say, urban planning, but for understanding why climate change,…
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Educational material: A Bird’s Eye View & LNT illustrations
Low-Level Radiation concerns: Henrietta learns that Mums like her don’t need to worry about mutations from nuclear power. Linear No Threshold Model: an explanation for the origin of radiophobia via Youtube If public policies promote a fear of low level ionising radiation from nuclear facilities over and above greenhouse gases, then decarbonisation will be very…
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10 Misconceptions about nuclear power
CREDIT DUE TO Professor Wade Allison: Author of Radiation and Reason and Nuclear Is for Life
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Global Warming
What is Global Warming? Global warming is a phenomenon related to increased levels of carbon in the atmosphere, particularly carbon dioxide gas. Carbon-dioxide is a chemical product of burning carbon-containing materials such as coal, oil, gas, wood and paper. Carbon dioxide is a ‘greenhouse gas’ meaning it has a particular property whereby it can absorb…
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Inevitable Breaches of Safety
Unless you are a specialist on radiation, a lot can be left to the imagination, and as we cannot sense radioactivity, our fear comes from the unknown. From some careful reading around the subject, the collective agreement as to what makes a ‘safe’ level of radiation, are somewhat biased; recent research into the cell biology…
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Fukushima Lessons Learned
Despite the negative press, the human health effects from radiation at Fukushima have been proven to be nil. So is it justified to label Fukushima a disaster? Perhaps the breach in the radiation levels as based on a dose-response relationship known as the linear non threshold (LNT) model is, for all intents and purposes a model…
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JOAN PYE SPEAKS AT SUSTAINABILITY LIVE, NEC
Joan Pye will be speaking today, 19 May 2009, at Sustainability Live, a conference accompanying an exhibition on Climate Change Solutions – Generating a Low Carbon Future at the NEC. Other speakers include: The Rt Hon Ed Miliband – M.P Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change; Olwen Dutton, Chief Executive, Regional Partnership, WM…
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Fells Associates report
Joan Pye and her supporters have been in touch with Professor Ian Fells, co-author of the recent report “A Pragmatic Energy Policy for the UK.”