Category Archives: Environment

Car-Borne Capture

Posted on April 20, 2024 by davidsberry

The Scottish Green Party are hopping mad that the Scottish Government, in which they are a partner, have abandoned their goal of reaching a 75% cut in carbon emissions by 2030. The move was triggered by a damning report from an independent … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Environment, Politics, Transport | Leave a comment

Robber Baroness II—Sarah Bentley

Posted on February 6, 2024 by davidsberry

The story of Paula Vennells and the destruction brought to the lives of hundreds of sub postmasters outlined earlier in Robber Baroness I, is bad enough. But an even more egregious example of promotion beyond competence which has wider fiscal … Continue reading →

Posted in Commerce, Environment | Leave a comment

SOS Puffin Update, 2023

Posted on January 7, 2024 by davidsberry

What follows is a précis of the newsletter sent out by the team at the Scottish Seabird Centre who monitor and protect the environment of local seabirds on unique offshore islands near North Berwick. It is reproduced here to widen … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Environment | 1 Comment

Mass Oysteria?

Posted on October 2, 2023 by davidsberry

Time was when the denizens of the Edinburgh Enlightenment dined on woodcock and pigeon, while the poor had to make do with the humble Scottish oyster. So plentiful were they along the foreshore of the Forth. Since medieval times, they … Continue reading →

Posted in Commerce, Community, Environment | Leave a comment

Can Water Stay Liquid?

Posted on July 9, 2023 by davidsberry

“Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song,  Sweet Thames, run softly, for I speak not loud or long.  But at my back in a cold blast, I hear the rattle of the bones.” —T.S.Eliot, “The Fire Sermon,” Part III … Continue reading →

Posted in Commerce, Environment, Politics | 1 Comment

Is It a Fair COP?

Posted on November 2, 2021 by davidsberry

“Humanity has long since run down the clock on climate change, It is one minute to midnight to prevent catastrophe.” —Boris Johnson at COP26, November 2021 Intensifying media blanket coverage means most of us were fed up with “last-chance-saloon” mood … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment, Politics | Leave a comment

Can You Canute?

Posted on August 21, 2021 by davidsberry

(Note: this is the column I would like to have written for my local paper, The East Lothian Courier, but was constrained to half the words and neither of the maps) The new agreement between the SNP and Greens to … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Environment | 1 Comment

No Life on Mars

Posted on March 14, 2021 by davidsberry

On Tuesday, BBC4 broadcast two excellent Horizon documentaries from a few years back. An hour of “Mars: A Traveller’s Guide” from 2017 at 9pm followed by an hour of “Mission to Mars” from 2012/13at 10pm. Given that, fifty years ago, … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Environment | 3 Comments

Wind Farms or Windbags?

Posted on February 6, 2021 by davidsberry

The Scottish energy strategy published in December 2017 sets a 2030 target for the equivalent of 50% of the energy for Scotland’s heat, transport and electricity consumption to be supplied by renewable sources. By June of last year, Scotland had … Continue reading →

Posted in Commerce, Environment | Leave a comment

Greta vs The Red Center

Posted on September 19, 2019 by davidsberry

Greta Thunberg,, the immensely sensible 16-year-old who triggered mass protests at the reluctance of nations to address looming climate catastrophe, sailed across the Atlantic in a non-polluting yacht to address the UN’s Climate Summit this summer. Her message was impassioned, … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment, Politics | Tagged | Leave a comment