Global warming, climate change, activism
Posted in Activism, Ain't Easy Being Green, Astroturfing, Climate Change Science, UK on Dec 2nd, 2009
Most people who follow the climate debate — and many who do not — will have heard about the so-called Climategate. In a nutshell, hackers stole 13 years of emails from leading climate scientists at Hadley Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the UK’s University of East Anglia, and published them on the web for all [...]
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science, George Monbiot, Politics, UK on Jul 19th, 2009
Classic George Monbiot, the most persuasive voice writing on climate today. He’s arguing that the British and G8 climate strategy just doesn’t add up, and that politicians are hoping that no one can actually do math.
Well, at least that clears up the mystery. Over the past year I’ve been fretting over an intractable contradiction. The [...]
Posted in Canada, Clean Technology, Climate Change Solutions, Renewable Energy, UK on Jul 19th, 2009
Ed Milliband, Secretary for Climate Change, has unveiled the UK government’s comprehensive plan for cutting GHG emissions and heralding in a new era of renewable energy in Great Britain. The measures will affect most areas of UK society, from home energy use to power generation, and from electric cars to high-speed rail — all in [...]
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Solutions, Politics, UK, USA on Jul 9th, 2009
It appears that the G8 pledge to do everything possible to keep global warming below 2°C by 2050 isn’t worth the paper it was written on. Less than 24 hours after leaders of the world’s largest economies were heralding a breakthrough in climate agreements, the bad boys of international climate negotiations — Canada and Russia [...]
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Solutions, Politics, UK on Jun 29th, 2009
Scottish lawmakers have signed into law the world’s toughest climate regulations. The landmark legislation includes binding goals to cut greenhouse gases by 42 percent* by 2020 from 1990 levels, which knocks Germany into second place in the race to set the most ambitious GHG reduction targets. Scotland’s bill does hold an option to delay meeting [...]
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, UK, USA on Apr 10th, 2009
President Obama understands, but judging by recent coverage the America media is still in the dark. Very few seem to realize that North Dakota’s devastating floods are just the opening salvo in what will become a steady stream of severe weather stories. After two relatively cool years thanks to a strong La Niña event — [...]
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science, Politics, UK, USA on Mar 16th, 2009
We have to change the terminology; according to scientists who attended the International Climate Change Congress in Copenhagen, the phrases “climate change” and “global warming” need to be retooled to better represent the stark reality that we are now facing. A climate catastrophe — or climate breakdown — would seem to be better choices for [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Energy Efficiency, UK on Mar 3rd, 2009
I first learned about Gordon Murray, a former Formula 1 designer, about eight months ago, when his team was half-way through the 24-month developmental cycle for his novel T25 city car - a cute little bug that could spark a clean transportation revolution. Reports now suggest that the T25 design and engineering work has already [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Climate Change Solutions, Energy Efficiency, UK on Feb 22nd, 2009
Novacem, a spin-off from London’s Imperial College, has won the coveted Rushlight Award for its novel CO2-capturing cement process that could turn one of the world’s most CO2-intensive industries into an important CCS solution. Cement production is a huge environmental problem, producing between six to eight percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions — and [...]
Posted in Canada, Clean Technology, Energy Efficiency, Politics, UK, USA on Feb 13th, 2009
The Congress has a stimulus plan that is expected to pass today, and it contains so many provisions to help the US transition to a low-carbon economy that I’ll just send you to Climate Progress for a summary, instead of listing them here. (The bill also chose to support renewables over nuclear power, another important [...]
