Archive for 'Climate Change'
EPA CO2 Endangerment Under Trial To Prevent Cap-And-Trade
Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by Ross.
In a move designed to ease the pressure on US Senators to pass the cap-and-trade system within restrictive climate change legislation, the Chamber of Commerce recently launched a blind-side against one of the key driving factors behind the new bill: the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA)’s endangerment finding regarding carbon dioxide.
April 2009 saw the publicly release of [...]
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Cap and Trade Comes To India Ahead Of USA
Posted on 27. Aug, 2009 by Ross.
In a bold move designed to stir up the landscape of international climate change diplomacy, the Indian government has set the foundations for an imminent carbon cap-and-trade scheme to reduce domestic energy consumption by 5% by 2015.
Despite still refusing to set a stringent target for carbon dioxide emissions ahead of the Copenhagen Conference in December, [...]
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Australia’s Carbon Cap-and-Trade Climb-Down
Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Ross.
After failing to secure flagship cap-and-trade legislation in the Senate, the Australian Government is being forced to splinter its’ environmental draft laws in order to get them passed individually.
The government is putting forward part of last week’s defeated bill - a plan for 20% of Australia’s energy to come from renewable sources by 2020 - [...]
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Sea Levels Could Rise By 25 Metres… From Today’s Carbon Dioxide Levels
Posted on 23. Jun, 2009 by Ross.
Forget all those predictions of climate change-fuelled sea level rises of 1-5 feet: research from the UK’s National Oceanographic Centre and the universities of Bristol and Tubingen (Germany) has concluded that sea levels are set to rise by 25m, and that’s before we add a single molecule more of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere!
Such a [...]
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How Much Does The World’s Temperature Rise By Per Tonne Of CO2?
Posted on 12. Jun, 2009 by Ross.
According to an article being published today in Nature, researchers have found a definitive and quantitative link between carbon dioxide emissions and global warming, enabling people to calculate how much the average global temperature has increased due to their own actions.
You’ve installed a smart meter to monitor your home energy use. You’ve looked up how [...]
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Climate Change Causes 300,000 Deaths Every Year, Says Former UN Secretary-General
Posted on 01. Jun, 2009 by Ross.
Climate change is not just something which will wreak devastation in the future: it is already killing 300,000 people a year right now, according to a think-tank set up by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan.
Annan’s organisation, the Global Humanitarian Forum, undertook the most comprehensive study of the impact of climate change on human populations. [...]
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Kyoto 2.0 Set To Fall At The First Hurdle
Posted on 14. Apr, 2009 by Ross.
With eight months to go before representatives from 170 countries attempt to agree on a follow-up to the Kyoto Climate Protocol at the Copenhagen Climate Convention, the early indications are that insurmountable differences between key players will prevent any dramatic new action to curb global carbon dioxide emissions.
Whilst much has already been made of the [...]
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Did Earth Hour Make A Difference?
Posted on 31. Mar, 2009 by Ross.
Did the hype match the result? Did a billion people turn off their lights for climate change? Will the politicians listen to the action?
WWF International Director General James Leape certainly thinks so.
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Earth Hour: Take The Next Step
Posted on 24. Mar, 2009 by Ross.
On Saturday March 28th, millions of people all around the world are expected to take part in a collective turn-off of lights and electrical appliances at 8:30pm local time in an act of mass climate change awareness dubbed ‘Earth Hour’. The event, conceived by the World Wildlife Fund and now in its third year, declares [...]
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Future Demand For Water Will Cause Rising Energy Prices
Posted on 12. Feb, 2009 by Ross.
Water shortages and their direct effects on human populations have dominated the news long before global warming became a mainstream concept, especially in drought-ridden areas of Africa. As the world’s population continues to exponentially explode, rural-urban migration continues unabated and increases in personal wealth fuels greater demands and expectations, water resources will be increasingly stretched [...]
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