I wish you a peaceful Good Friday, whatever you believe and where you are.
Filed under: climate change | 5 Comments »
I shall not anticipate a green budget
Posted on April 9, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Will there be a green budget from Mr Darling? Not on his present form,or that of the Government.
Filed under: Alistair Darling, carbon emissions, cars, climate change, David Cameron, energy, global warming, gordon brown, microgeneration, solar energy, solar panels | Tagged: bids for green cities, electric cars, green budget, Green New Deal, green policies | 11 Comments »
Carbon cycle modelling and cooling the planet
Posted on April 8, 2009 by robertkyriakides
The latest climate change models indicate a reasonable probability of the climate warming by two degrees Celsius in the next twenty years. The models do not attempt to indicate whether the climates can thereafter recovery back to normal temperatures.
Filed under: carbon emissions, climate change, global warming | Tagged: carnon cycle, general carbon circulation model, ocean carbon cycle, probability of planetary cooling, terrestrial carbon cycle | 6 Comments »
Ice is melting in the Antarctic
Posted on April 7, 2009 by robertkyriakides
The latest evidence that polar ice is receding
Filed under: carbon emissions, climate change, global warming | Tagged: antarctic, IPCC calculations exclude polar ice melt, polar ice, wilkins ice shelf | 1 Comment »
Don’t bail out the car makers
Posted on April 5, 2009 by robertkyriakides
The environment is not permitted to stand in the way of the car industry.
Filed under: carbon emissions, climate change, global warming | Tagged: 2.3 billion of loans from the European Investment Bank lead in petrol, car industry bail out, Clair Patterson, environmental protection agency, environmental record of car industry, Jaguar Land Rover, Mr Mandelson | 5 Comments »
Lawsuits can help in the fight against climate change
Posted on April 4, 2009 by robertkyriakides
The case is a small but important step in changing the culture of banking from greed and reckless resource use, into something that might be more sustainable.
Filed under: carbon emissions, climate change, energy, fuel, global warming | Tagged: fossil fuel, fossil fuel. carbon dioxide emissions, National Environmental Policy Act, the Import-Export Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation | 1 Comment »
The London G20 Summit – they met for the wrong reason
Posted on April 3, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Why did the G20 meet?
Filed under: climate change, global warming | Tagged: G20, London Summit, the blessed obama | 9 Comments »
How plants may adapt to climate change and help us feed the world
Posted on April 2, 2009 by robertkyriakides
while we are busy planning and talking about our low carbon future, we should also be looking at the effect of climate change on growing things, but that directly affects our food and how much we have to eat
Filed under: carbon emissions, climate change, global warming | Tagged: feeding the future world, plants adapt to climate change, Soybean Free Air Concentration Enrichment, the University of California at San Diego | 6 Comments »
Changing the land is changing the climate
Posted on April 1, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Many of the decisions we make are taken in order to prevent emissions which adversely affect our climate; how many of these changes are actually preventing emissions and how many of them are actually contributing to emissions?
Filed under: biofuels, biomass, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, energy, global warming, solar energy | Tagged: climate of Florida affected by building and agriculture, deforestation, Dr Patzek, emissions casued by land use change, irrigation, land change science | 12 Comments »
