Posts Tagged ‘CO2’

• Nicholas Stern endorses 350 ppm as “a very sensible long-term target”

  This week Nicholas Stern, the British top climate economist and academic who is probably most known for the Stern Review, endorsed 350 ppm as “a very sensible long-term target.” 350 ppm, as in parts per million, the level scientists have …

• Letter to ALL Australian Federal MPs over Climate Emergency and LYING

  Southern Australia has been suffering an unprecedented heatwave over the last week. In Melbourne we have experienced successive daily maxima of 43.4, 44.3 and 45.1 degrees Centigrade (corresponding to 110.1, 111.7 and 113.2 degrees Fahrenheit, respectively). The temperature finally reached …

• Orwellian Australian “Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme” will DOUBLE Greenhouse Gas Pollution by 2050

  Only a few weeks after the release of the Draft Report of the seriously flawed, pro-coal, Australian Garnaut Climate Change Review (4 July, 2008; see my critique on Green Blog, “Pro-Coal, Australian Garnaut Climate Review Damns Coral, Australia & World”), …

• 4% of the world’s emissions come from ships

  Did you know that about 90% of the world’s goods are shipped the water way? About one billion ton of CO2 is emitted by ships, every year. The ships energy demands are expected to rise by 75% in about 15-20 …

• All the things we throw in the sea

  Despite the ban in 1994, radioactive depositions still reach the seas. In french pipes of nuclear facilities Greenpeace’s divers found the waters to have 17.000.000 times more intense radioactivity than clean waters. In Norway, crabs and seaweeds have been polluted …