Tagged: John Gummer

A sunnier outlook from the ground up - Hot Topic

Bryan Walker • May 19, 2012 •

• Africa,
• China,
• Climate business,
• Climate politics,
• Desertec,
• John Gummer,
• John Prescott,
• NZ Herald

The NZ Herald business supplement recently carried a thoughtful feature by Peter Huck in which he described moves to combat climate change at lower levels than the floundering international negotiations. He begins with a report on Desertec Industrial Initiative, the German-led consortium which this year hopes to trial in Morocco a concentrated solar power plant [...] … Read More

Umm, a Gummer and carbon nonsense - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Mar 28, 2011 •

• Carbon Sense Coalition,
• Climate cranks,
• Climate politics,
• Don Easterbrook,
• GISP2,
• Greenland,
• John Gummer,
• Margaret Thatcher,
• Monckton,
• Nigel Lawson,
• Viv Forbes

Twenty years ago I’d have crossed the street to avoid meeting John Selwyn Gummer, then agriculture minister in Margaret Thatcher’s government, chiefly famous for having attempted to feed his young daughter a beefburger at the 1990 Ipswich Boat Show to demonstrate his understanding of the risks of contracting bovine spongiform encephalopathy (aka mad cow disease) [...] … Read More