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The Financial Case For CFL and LED Light Bulbs

Posted on 24. Aug, 2010 by Ross.

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Manufacturers of LED lighting are quick to trumpet the benefits of their lights versus incandescent bulbs, but are usually careful to avoid similar comparisons with compact fluorescent lighting (CFL) bulbs which are similarly energy efficient. Here we do just that: contrasting the financial case for CFL and LED light bulbs from the same manufacturer.
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Climate Change Crop Yields Will Lead To Starvation

Posted on 11. Aug, 2010 by Ross.

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With all-time record temperatures being set worldwide this year, and the trend likely to continue as the world warms under climate change, the question of how such temperatures will affect us all is an obvious one.
The current headlines coming out of Russia are similar to those generated by the 2003’s European heatwave - the deadliest [...]

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Record Temperatures And Record Energy Use

Posted on 10. Aug, 2010 by Ross.

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17 countries around the world have recorded all-time national record temperatures this summer, giving people from different corners of the world more of an idea of what to expect from future climate change.
With the Russian 37°C heatwave currently doubling Moscow’s death rate, and Pakistan suffering from cataclysmic flooding, these warm weather patterns are bringing more [...]

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The Ugly Face Of Climate Compensation: Saudi Arabia And Equador

Posted on 05. Aug, 2010 by Ross.

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One of the key negotiating points in the continuing grudge match of international climate change diplomacy surrounds the demands of developing countries for western nations to foot the bill both for climate adaptation and low-carbon growth.
The argument generally goes like this: developed nations have caused climate change by polluting the atmosphere in their quest for [...]

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Endangered Species vs Climate Change: You Can’t Have It Both Ways

Posted on 30. Jul, 2010 by Ross.

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Think that an adorable doe-eyed animal will help you to save the world? Think twice before relying on it to bring about change (unless it happens to have super powers and similarly noble instincts!)
Environmentalists have always looked to warn of the dangers of climate change through the eyes of a cuddly mammal whose life is [...]

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Ocean Acidification Occuring Too Fast For Adaptation

Posted on 26. Jul, 2010 by Ross.

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Firstly, some good news. Ocean acidification, the evil twin of climate change, has happened in the past and creatures of the period adapted their physiologies to survive.
The bad news is that the current rate of ocean acidification far outstrips what has gone before, making generational adaption to the current rising oceanic pH far more unlikely [...]

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UN Business Case For Protecting Biodiversity Is Nonsense

Posted on 13. Jul, 2010 by Ross.

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After the success of energy efficiency scaling it’s way onto the agenda of corporate boardrooms across the world by connecting green credentials to a solid business case, other areas of environmental concern have begun to try to emulate that success. Renewable energy, sustainability and biodiversity protection have all been trying to connect their agendas to [...]

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Virus Is The Remedy For Industrial Chemistry

Posted on 01. Jul, 2010 by Ross.

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Industrial chemistry has long been the epicentre of energy efficiency breakthroughs. With large-scale chemical manufacturing processes sometimes requiring thousands of atmospheres of pressure and tens of thousands of degrees of heat, the search for more effective catalysts, cheaper substrates and alternative synthetic pathways has dominated a century of achievement in chemistry.
Now a team of molecular [...]

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Africa’s Great Green Wall Of Trees To Fight The Sahara Desert

Posted on 24. Jun, 2010 by Ross.

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Despite the emphasis on developed countries to cut their carbon footprints, and the major developing nations such as India and China to reduce the carbon intensity of their growth, the biggest front in the war against climate change has opened up in Africa: the continent least responsible and most affected.
Planning for the Desertec Project - [...]

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Energy Shortages Ahoy! No New UK Nuclear Before 2017

Posted on 23. Jun, 2010 by Ross.

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Remember those two nuclear power plants every year forever that the UK needs to build?
Well, last week’s announcement that the UK government would be cancelling the £80m loan to Sheffield Forgemasters to enable them to invest a new press for creating nuclear pressure vessels was the death-knell for the immediate prospects of nuclear power in [...]

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Industrial Farming Has Already Saved The World From Climate Change!

Posted on 15. Jun, 2010 by Ross.

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Worried about what the climate will be like in twenty years time with the continuing escalation in carbon dioxide emissions? About how much the planet will have warmed by, how high the sea level has risen and how many more storms, droughts and other extreme weather conditions will plague civilisation?
Without industrial farming we’d already be [...]