Posted 15 April 2015 

* The poor everywhere are being impoverished by high costs of green energy * Delaying the development of Africa by denying cheap fossil fuels is immoral. * Climate change a distant distraction from more serious and imminent challenges to humanity: antibiotic resistance, financial collapse, water wars... * Many measures counter-productive – close aluminium smelters in UK and import from coal-based smelters in China – total madness in total CO2 terms. * Do we know we are preparing for the right global disaster?  

Points made by expatriate Kiwi Professor Michael Kelly, of Cambridge University, in a challenging lecture on energy to the Institute of Professional Engineers of New Zealand (IPENZ) 

Download Bryan Leyland's introductory summary here 

Download PowerPoint pdf [here](m kelly ipenz apr2015.pdf)

Next Post Previous Post