Beautiful autumn days. I love the clear views you can get at this time of the year, here is a view looking back over our place, with the mountains of Snowdonia in the far distance. I found some excellent resources on energy and climate change last night, I put them in the Reading room on the RISC site if anyone is interested. The debate is really hotting up (pardon the pun). For those who haven't been following, the Royal Society adn other eminent scientific bodies have accused Exxonmobil of propagating bad science adn funding organisations that argue against climate change, There is absolutely no scientific basis to what they are claiming adn they have been asked to stop doing. A key different between Kyoto in '97 and now is that then it was speculation, predicitions about what was going to happen, the point now is that it is actually happening, there is more evidence everyday. Techno fixes are not going to plug the gap, even slightly, and the real truth is we have to rapidly make that transition to a low energy society. That is what we are about here at teh 'shack, exploring those possibilities for our selves, constructinga mroe energy efficient lifestyle. There is a long way to go, in a lot of ways we have been only really playing at it so far, but with the increasing weight of evidence and a growing determination we are thinking about it the more seriously. The rediction we need to make in emissions is something like a 9% reduction every year for the next 30 years...! this is a serious challenge for everyone, but one I think with many unexpected rewards