Issues: Climate change and energy

Climate change and energy

SGR produces a range of outputs on the issue of 'Climate change and energy'. This covers climate change science, technological and policy responses to climate change, energy supply technologies (especially renewable energy and nuclear power), energy use and energy efficiency (including in transport and buildings), and related policy and lifestyle issues.

Military R&D 85 times larger than renewable energy R&D

Stuart Parkinson and Chris Langley outline SGR’s latest research whose revelations include statistics from across the industrialised world showing the massive imbalance between government R&D spending for military purposes and that for social and environmental purposes.

Article for SGR Newsletter, No. 35, winter 2008
 

Could one Trident submarine cause 'nuclear winter'?

Philip Webber, SGR, analyses the latest research on the potential climatic impacts of nuclear war and demonstrates that the firepower of just one of the UK's Trident submarines could be devastating for the whole planet.

Article from SGR Newsletter, No. 35, winter 2008

 

Nuclear Power - Information resources from Scientists for Global Responsibility

Press release, 7 January 2008
 

Nuclear power: the security dimension

Presentation given by Stuart Parkinson, SGR, at a public meeting in Kendal, Cumbria; October 2007
 

UK Renewable Energy Targets: SGR Comment

Press release, 26 October 2007
 

The Future of Nuclear Power: SGR response

SGR Response to the consultation on UK Government paper, The Future of Nuclear Power, submitted on 9 October 2007
 

Nuclear power: yes or no?

Presentation given by Stuart Parkinson, SGR, as part of a debate held at Manchester University, 19 September 2007
 

Iran’s nuclear strategy: civil or military?

Iran is under scrutiny: Western governments claim its nascent nuclear power programme masks plans for nuclear weapons development. Frank Barnaby, Oxford Research Group, assesses the validity of the West's claims and argues that use of military force against Iran's nuclear programme will only make matters worse.

Article from SGR Newletter, no. 34, summer 2007

 

The potential of power from deserts

The ingenious use of mirrors and DC electrical grid technology could provide a significant new source of power from desert sunlight. Gerry Wolff explains.

Article from SGR Newsletter no. 34, summer 2007
 

Climate change: the latest findings of the IPCC

Stuart Parkinson outlines the stark conclusions that emerge from the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Article from SGR Newsletter no. 34, summer 2007