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How do my peers regard industry funding? (Part 1) | Vitamin CCS
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Environmental research snippets from Scotland. How do my peers regard industry funding? January 5, 2015. Every year for the past 23 years, the postgraduate PhD and MRes students at Edinburgh University’s School of GeoSciences have put on a weekend conference. I have previously written about last year’s conference. And how the current conference format is maintained through industry sponsorship. The School of GeoSciences is currently ranked 17th in the QS World University Rankings. Attitudes to fossil fue...
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A personal take on GHGT12, Austin TX | Vitamin CCS
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Environmental research snippets from Scotland. A personal take on GHGT12, Austin TX. December 2, 2014. I was diligent enough to write about my poster presentation. On the final day of the conference, and I’ve previously submitted some quick thoughts to Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage (SCCS). But I’ve only just got around to writing about my overall conference experience here since I’ve been busy making a start on writing my thesis. That’s the excuse I’m sticking to, anyway! I chatted with, amongst ot...
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Biases, and the world of climate change denial on my doorstep | Vitamin CCS
https://vitaminccs.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/biases-and-the-world-of-climate-change-denial-on-my-doorstep
Environmental research snippets from Scotland. Biases, and the world of climate change denial on my doorstep. June 9, 2015. A new paper came out in. Just last week called Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatus. By Dr Thomas Karl of the NOAA, which considers the so-called ‘hiatus’ in global warming in the last 17 years or so. I don’t intend to cover the paper in detail; you can read more here. If you wish. The paper is available here. And that humans are to blame.
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How do my peers regard industry funding? (Part 2) | Vitamin CCS
https://vitaminccs.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/how-do-my-peers-regard-industry-funding-part-2
Environmental research snippets from Scotland. How do my peers regard industry funding? January 6, 2015. This is the second of three posts on an informal survey conducted at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Geosciences, to gauge attitudes among the postgraduate cohort to industry funding of School activities. The following links, when live, will direct you to parts 1 and 3:. Part 1: Aggregated School of Geosciences responses to Questions 1-8. Part 3: Selected comments from Question 10. Using this ...
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Edinburgh University fossil fuel divestment decision | Vitamin CCS
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Environmental research snippets from Scotland. Edinburgh University fossil fuel divestment decision. May 14, 2015. Two days ago (12th May 2015) the University of Edinburgh concluded its review of fossil fuel divestment and published the report of the Fossil Fuels Review Group ( report link. The accompanying press release. Summarised the decision as:. Thus marks a change in investment policy for the University, albeit one which has not exactly been welcomed by many. I think, though, that this is a weak ar...
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Has the failure of CCS at Longannet returned to haunt us? | Vitamin CCS
https://vitaminccs.wordpress.com/2014/07/22/has-the-failure-of-ccs-at-longannet-returned-to-haunt-us
Environmental research snippets from Scotland. Has the failure of CCS at Longannet returned to haunt us? July 22, 2014. Today BBC News is reporting. That Longannet power station in Fife (Scotland) is among the top 30 CO. Emitters in Europe, in terms of millions of tonnes of CO. Emitted per annum from coal-fired power generation. This comes from a report apparently produced jointly by the WWF. The European Envionmental Bureau. The Health and Environment Alliance. And Climate Alliance Germany. Per megawatt...
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How is our Gradschool Conference Funded? [UPDATE] | Vitamin CCS
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Environmental research snippets from Scotland. How is our Gradschool Conference Funded? July 30, 2014. This is a short update to the post How is our Gradschool Conference Funded? Fig 1 Percentages of Cuddly and Odious organisations contacted, responded with sponsorship, and amount donated for the 2014 Gradschool Conference. If it’s a pain flicking back and forth between the blog posts, I’ve collated all the data on one (hard to read? And that’s all for today! July 30, 2014. Some satisfaction with R →.
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GHGT-12 Conference Paper | Vitamin CCS
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Environmental research snippets from Scotland. March 10, 2015. I’ve been a little busy in the past few months with PhD thesis writing, hence the paucity of blog posting since the start of the year. However, I’ve just submitted an extremely large draft chapter to my supervisors and am taking a temporary break from writing to regain some sanity(! This post is a really just a quick advert for the conference paper I wrote for GHGT-12 last year. I’ve already mentioned my poster ( here. Sequential leaching exp...
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How do my peers regard industry funding? (Part 3) | Vitamin CCS
https://vitaminccs.wordpress.com/2015/01/07/how-do-my-peers-regard-industry-funding-part-3
Environmental research snippets from Scotland. How do my peers regard industry funding? January 7, 2015. This is the last of three posts on an informal survey conducted at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Geosciences, to gauge attitudes among the postgraduate cohort to industry funding of School activities. The following links, when live, will direct you to parts 1 and 2:. Part 1: Aggregated School of Geosciences responses to Questions 1-8. Part 3: Selected comments from Question 10 (this post).
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