Posts Tagged ‘greenhouse gases’

• Australian National University sells shares in Coal Seam Gas

  Australia and indeed the World are increasingly threatened by massive investment in coal seam gas (CSG). CSG expansion has drawn vehement opposition in Australia from urban environmentalists and also from farmers opposed to despoiling of prime agricultural land and potential …

• Why we must stop coal to gas transition and fracking

  The atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration is now 394 parts per million (ppm) but top climate scientists and biologists say that it must be urgently reduced to about 300 ppm for a safe and sustainable planet for all peoples and …

• Dishonest Australian Labor Government carbon price plan for climate change inaction

  Top climate scientists around the World are saying that to have a high probability of avoiding a catastrophic 2 degree Centigrade temperature rise the World must stop GHG pollution by about 2050. However in Australia, a world leader in annual …

• The dirty side of the British Royal Wedding

  Did the Royal Wedding set a new record for greenhouse gas emissions produced by a one-day event? A while back, in an article about a bizarre scheme to let people in Britain offset their carbon emissions by paying for birth …

• Coalition of environmental, public health and civil rights organisations fights GOP attack on EPA

  “Race and income are the top two factors in considering where to locate pollution-causing facilities like coal-fired power plants.” Supporters of clean air and water this week pushed back against a Republican Party proposal to stop the Environmental Protection Agency …

• Why we must oppose transition to gas-fired power

  “These estimates translate to a climate genocide involving the deaths of 10 billion people this century…” There is an overwhelming global scientific consensus that global warming is real, man-made and must be urgently addressed, As adjudged from the rhetoric at …

• 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 …

• Back to School: Healthy, Stylish and Green

  Photo credit: busymommy Breakfast: good for you and the planet! Many teens either skip breakfast or grab something starchy and sugary on the way to school. However, from a nutritional point of view, breakfast is the most important part of …

• Costing CO2 abatement – renewables, geothermal and biochar

  “The World is running out of time but there is still hope that reason, science and rational risk management will prevail.” Before the global recession hit (and reduced the soaring price of fossil fuels), the “market cost” of the best …

• Carbon in numbers – Weighing in on the sources that add to the planet’s greenhouse gases

  Photo credit: Taras Kalapun The environmental footprint per capita in developed countries is more than 10 tones per year. For example, 10,8 tones of carbon is emitted per capita by British, 12,7 per capita by Greek and 22,4 tones per …