Carbon, Climate & Copenhagen: Energy-Saving News’ 200th Post Round-Up

Posted on 09. Dec, 2009 by Ross in Best Climate News

This is the 200th post on Energy-Saving News, and to celebrate our continuing mission to cover the most important and exciting topics in the climate change, energy efficiency and environmental news we thought that we’d look back at some of the most important and popular stories from the last six months since our 100th post.

5 Most Important Stories - as selected by Energy-Saving News

China Joins The Climate Change Club, Leaving USA In The Cold

The road to Copenhagen has seemed a long and torturous one, filled with political and diplomatic twists, turns and reversals to keep all but the most ardent observer feeling the wrong shade of green. However, one sub-plot emerged from the tangled mess of international jockeying which deserved proper illumination: the rising of once-reviled China as the environmental super-hero and the casting of the USA as the world’s climate change villain. A happy Far East accident? Hardly…
EPA CO2 Endangerment Under Trial To Prevent Cap-And-Trade

The recent announcement by Obama shows the true import of the Environmental Protection Agency’s endangerment ruling on carbon dioxide, but when the US Chamber of Commerce ambushed the EPA and demanded a public climate change trial we at Energy-Saving News decided to take a look at what motivated the timing of the attack…
Meet The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme

Aside from the political promises and back-tracking on climate change, there’s the cold hard reality of getting the message - and the legislation - across to those who need to take action: households and businesses. The UK’s cap and trade scheme - the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme -finally emerged in a glossy new form, with huge ramifications for all those businesses involved.
India To Suffer From 20,000 MW Energy Shortage As Monsoon Fails Due To El Nino

Politically, India is the Jekyll and Hyde of climate change: constantly careering between uber-skeptic and energy-efficient pioneer (although it’s usually more of the former and less of the latter). However, they have better reason than most to act on climate change as this summer showed, with warmer climates coupling with El Nino to leave India’s vast hydroelectric power reserves on empty, leaving the growing and industrialising nations on the verge of catastrophic power failures. Sustainable growth, anyone…?
Ocean Acidification Masks The Smell Of Death

The political debate on climate change, and the media storm that constantly follows it, usually focuses on prediction of greater atmospheric instability - more storms, hurricanes, droughts and floods - and on rising sea levels. However, more and more research is highlighting that one of the most dangerous threats posed by increasing levels of carbon dioxide is not the height of the surface of the sea but the damage being done underneath it…

5 Most Popular Stories - as read by you

7 Deadly Sins v Climate Change: Dante’s Guide To Saving The Planet

With tongue firmly in cheek, we looked at how the Devil uses the seven deadly sins to help combat climate change (well, six of them anyway: Lust just doesn’t want to play ball). Why? Well, it’s hot enough in Hell already…
Carbon Trust’s £40m Big Business Refit Is A Scrappage Scheme: Theo Paphitis

Proving that it’s not just hippy treehuggers who read Energy-Saving News, and that business people are inevitably drawn in by celebrity entrepreneurs with promises of saving money, our follow-up to the announcement of the Carbon Trust’s Big Business Refit drew a massive audience eager to learn how energy efficient technology could save them money whilst being paid for by interest-free loans. Lighting retrofit, anyone…?
What are Algae Biofuels?

The big new emerging field for the next couple of decades, algae-based biofuels promise higher yields of biofuel than other crop solutions whilst using less land, water and nourishment? Too good to be true? Why not find out…
Is Your Company In The Ostrich Block?

Maybe it was the picture of a man with his head in the sand. Maybe it was the treehuggers trying to get more hits than the Greek Dragon at number 2 in this list. Whatever the reason, the Ostrich Block as a concept is now here to stay, although let’s hope that it vanishes forever in the not too distant future.
Smart Meters in California; Stupid Meters In Scotland

Smart meters took the top spot in the last 100 posts, so it’s not surprising that another story about the controversial little blighters made the top five popular stories this time too. Hopefully all smart meters in the future will be smart, but this story just shows that the road to electrical enlightenment is paved with self-interest…

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