Question: Why is it hottest in the late summer when the days are getting shorter, rather than around the summer solstice when the days are the longest?
Edward Stalnaker
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How are you going to persuade people like me to accept new nuclear power plants when no-one seems to have a strategy for dealing with the radioactive waste from the old installations?
Caroline Westgate
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Question: Why don’t we introduce a fiscal-neutral carbon tax, like that proposed by Prof James Hansen?
Alessandro De Maida
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Have you ever looked at “alternative” nuclear technologies, for example molten salt reactors (or liquid fluorides as today are termed)?
Allessandro De Maida
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Will it be possible to build all the necessary nuclear power stations in time, what emission savings can be made and will the nuclear industry close them down when and if they are not needed?
Shaun Bernie
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I like to buy organic food, because of all the good reasons one should buy organic. However, I also like to buy local food – for all the other good reasons that it’s good to buy local. So which should I buy?
Lana Berrington
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I want to travel to Rome and Paris, and need a little help/direction before I can start. Any nuggets of wisdom would be absolutely great and very much appreciated.
Kim
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What about boring old natural gas? I can’t find any mention of it anywhere on your site and I wonder how much you or your readers know about the recent revolution in unconventional “shale” gas which has meant some geologists think that there is nine times more natural gas available on a planetary scale than thought as little as two or three years ago.
Nick Grealy
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I agree that wind and nuclear energy are not intrinsically opposed to each other. However, France only has wind power because it’s forced to by the European Union.
David Walters
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