Posts Tagged ‘carbon emissions’

• 2011: A Year of Weather Extremes, with More to Come

  The global average temperature in 2011 was 14.52 degrees Celsius (58.14 degrees Fahrenheit). According to NASA scientists, this was the ninth warmest year in 132 years of recordkeeping, despite the cooling influence of the La Niña atmospheric and oceanic circulation …

• IEA warns world headed for irreversible climate change in five years, greenhouse emissions soaring

  This week the International Energy Agency (IEA) released their yearly World Energy Outlook report. The energy report contained a very urgent call for action on climate. The IEA report warned that if our energy infrastructure is not rapidly changed the …

• China sees record investments in renewable tech, will introduce carbon trading scheme

  The Chinese government recently declared that they are intending on placing a cap on their annual carbon emissions which will allow the individual provinces in China to regulate and plan their emissions more effectively. The hope is that this cap …

• Carbon emissions sees record rise despite economic recession

  According to an unpublished report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) global greenhouse gas emissions has increased to new record levels. And this despite one of the worst economic recessions in recent history which analysts thought would lower the carbon …

• Vancouver 2010: The “Green Olympics”?

  Photo credit: roland With only a few days left before the 2010 Olympic Games officially begins, there is a buzz around the streets of Vancouver. Being a resident of the city, I can certainly say it has undergone some radical …

• Be An Eco-Friendly Traveller

  Don’t lose your good habits on vacation! Photo credit: JoshuaDavisPhotography.COM How can you be an eco-friendly traveller? Well, considering the immense amount of carbon emissions generated by air travel (hundreds of pounds of fuel per passenger), the term “eco-friendly traveller” …

• Paleoclimate scientist Glikson: Cut carbon emissions 80% by 2020 to avoid catastrophe

  We are running out of time – so what can decent folk do in the face of greedy, corrupt, climate racist, climate genocidal, climate criminal intransigence? The world must cut carbon emissions by 80% by 2020 to avert catastrophe, according …

• Watch: Monbiot meets the chief executive of easyJet

  Photo credit: saba♫dija In the latest of his groundbreaking encounters with the figures whose decisions shape our environment, George Monbiot meets Andy Harrison, the chief executive of easyjet, and takes him to task over the budget airline’s plans for an …

• New climate report says we must rapidly decarbonise our society

  Tomorrow a new and updated version of last year’s climate report, Climate Code Red, will be released. The Climate Safety report from the Public Interest Research Center (PIRC), an independent charity studying and communicating vital global issues in the UK, …

• Switchgrass as biofuel could cut emissions by 94%

  A new study by Kenneth Vogel from the University of Nebraska shows that farming switchgrass as biofuel will produce 540% more energy than is required to grow and manufacture it. This can be compared to 25% for corn ethanol and …