In the latest editorial in the Manilla Bulletin Dr Florangel R Braid writes,
ALREADY, we are experiencing effects of one of the “burning concerns” of our time — global warming. Flooding, landslides and frequent occurrence of storms have done considerable damage to our infrastructure and agricultural crops and of course the displacement of millions of people. […]
Planet Ark cites Klaus Toepfer, former head of the UN Environment Agency, who claims Climate Change Could Destabilise World.
“The poorest of the poor are suffering most. Our world will be destabilised if we are not able to solve this problem. It is not something on the margins. Our children and their children will suffer the […]
Pravda is reporting EU presents new awareness programm to stop global warming.
The European Commission said that households within the 25-nation bloc contribute some 16 percent of the EU’s total greenhouse gas emissions, most of which comes from the production and use of energy.
The EU awareness campaign, which encourages people to “Turn down. Switch off. Recycle. […]
The BBC is running a show on Friday 2 June at 7pm London-time called The Real Cost of Going Green.
Is it really possible to cut your carbon emissions enough to save the planet? As part of the BBC’s Climate Chaos week, Money Programme reporter Max Flint conducts a unique experiment. He spends a week with […]
I sat on a panel for a podcast called theWatt to discuss carbon trading and a handful of other topics. The panel members this week were Robb from the blog Entropy Production and John from the blog This Week In Nuclear. The panel is chaired by Ben from theWatt.
We talked about the recent […]
Salon is running a good article called Paying off our global warming sins that weighs up some of the arguments both in favour of, and against carbon credits.
Is going carbon neutral the right path to reducing greenhouse gases? The early reviews by energy experts are mixed. On the positive side, buying offsets goes beyond fretful […]
The BBC news is reporting London looks to count its carbon a proposal to monitor London’s CO2 footprint based on a study underway in Baltimore.
London could soon have a network of scientific stations to monitor the great city’s carbon “footprint”.
The system would deploy instruments to track flows of gases such as carbon dioxide to get […]
NASA have released a truly vivid animation of the 2005 hurricane season over the Gulf of Mexico, as seen from space. It is colour coded to show temperature variations and overlays names and locus of each hurricane.
Satellite view of Hurricane Rita
What is breathtaking is the inescapable view of them all as a larger storm […]
I was was watching Climate Chaos, David Attenborough’s show on his conversion to the awful truth of human-induced global warming. He claims the graph that finally convinced him that humans are changing the climate was this one.
And he’s right - it is a corker. The influence of humans on the climate is noticeable […]
By now you may have seen the TV ads produced by ExxonMobil’s lobby group CEI, The Competitive Enterprise Institute which argue that, far from being a dangerous pollutant when too highly concentrated in our atmosphere, CO2 is fact the bringer of all life and energy. Today’s UK Independent is running an interview with one […]