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Good News on Renewables?

With all the bad news related to the climate, is there actually good news on renewables? Also, does Twitter have a child abuse images problem?

With all the bad news related to the climate is there actually some good news? Worldwide renewable capacity has now passed coal capacity for the first time. The story was reported across the world but is it the good news it first appears? What does the term ‘capacity’ actually mean?

This week, a concerned citizen said she had uncovered thousands of Twitter profiles that were publishing and sharing child abuse images . The network was swift to shut the accounts down, but questions remain about disturbing material proliferating on the platform.

And why do cities make us rude? When we are surrounded by people why do we tend to shun them? Why do we refuse to make eye contact or say hello? And, why do tempers flare on busy city streets? We perform the Lost Tourist test to find out just how rude London is.

(Image: Solar panels and wind turbines. Shutterstock)

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Thu 1 Dec 2016 23:06GMT

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