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What about the waste?
21/05/25 by Marie Contrary to media reporting, radioactive waste is not a public health hazard, and it never hurt anyone. The issue of public mistrust is discussed here. Emissions from burning fossil fuels, on the other hand, cause devastation worldwide by contributing to more frequent and intense extreme weather events like typhoons, droughts, and famines.…
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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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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.”