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...simple, the cheapest way to provide electricity is to use coal. Not having electricity is a great hindrance to economic development not just in terms of consumption growth but also in terms of education, in terms of healthcare and so on and so forth which, even if you don't care much about material wellbeing, are great goods. And the cheapest way to deliver that is...

...simple models with that observational record from the recent past, when CO2 has been going up. Now that doesn’t take, I think, take into account the fact that there is probably considerably more change to come. In other words some of the feedbacks which tend to make the climate sensitivity higher are relatively slow to come into effect. RH: So what you mean is that we...

...simple story about an electric bus.” Some electrobuses did run on London’s streets. Harrods, the fashionable department store, used electric delivery vans till 1918. In 1911 a fleet of 17 electric and hybrid buses was running in Brighton, on England’s south coast, but by then the London Electrobus Company – wracked by court cases and press exposés of its...