Posted on September 30, 2009 by robertkyriakides
You will be given many climate heating projections between now and December, when the nations of the world will meet in Copenhagen to try to deal with climate change. Each nation will have its own projection as scientists will use their own computer modelling in order to show us how serious the problem of climate [...]
Filed under: United Nations Climate Change Conference, climate change, energy, global warming | Tagged: climate change projects, effect of 4 degrees warming, indirect effects of climate change, Met Office | 2 Comments »
Posted on September 29, 2009 by robertkyriakides
In the Philippines a tropical storm Ketsana, also called Ondoy has been ravaging Manila and the surrounding areas. Nearly three hundred thousand people have been displaced by the storm; many of them have lost all their possessions. About eighty people have lost their lives through drowning, landslides and other effects of the storm.
Filed under: climate change, energy, global warming, weather | Tagged: here's to life, Ketsana, Manila, Ondoy, Philippines, tropical storms and climate change | 8 Comments »
Posted on September 28, 2009 by robertkyriakides
I suppose that most of us have at one time or another overspent our wages. If you get paid monthly it might have happened that a few days before the end of the month there was no money left in your account. You only had two choices then – borrow some money from the bank [...]
Filed under: climate change, global warming | Tagged: overshoot day, solid state economy, sustaining resources | 2 Comments »
Posted on September 27, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Politicians and celebrities have started a movement – a campaign by “top” people, to demand a fair and wide ranging climate change treaty at Copenhagen in a few months time. Such luminaries as Peter Mandelson, Ed Milliband and a host of UK companies have joined the tck tck tck organisation which is promoting the campaign.
Filed under: carbon emissions, climate change, global warming | Tagged: Ed Miliband, Peter Mandelson, tck tck tck campaign | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 26, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Some people are using the annual variation is polar ice covering the sea as evidence that climate change and global warming is not actually taking place. This is misguided as the annual variations are not evidence of anything but annual variations. What is happening is indicated by trends. One thing is clear both in terms [...]
Filed under: climate change, global warming | 8 Comments »
Posted on September 25, 2009 by robertkyriakides
Civil servants administer the policies of politicians. They break the policies down into what they regard to be a correct series of tasks and then work through the tasks, ticking boxes from their task check list. This way they achieve their objective through a series of small tasks and the series of tasks are a [...]
Filed under: carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, carbon trading, climate change, energy, global warming, microgeneration | Tagged: cap and trade, ETS | 3 Comments »
Posted on September 24, 2009 by robertkyriakides
When a river flows it picks up all kind of debris from the act of running water over rock, subsoil and soil. Generally rivers deposit this debris, known as sediment, at their moths where they often form large deltas, like the Nile delta or the Delta of the Mississippi. Deltas are made up of many [...]
Filed under: climate change, energy, energy statistics, global warming, natural gas | Tagged: colorado river, delta, nile, Po delta, Venice sinking, Hurricane Katrina, the Mississippi lowlands, Irrawaddy, Ganges, dams, sediment | 3 Comments »
Posted on September 23, 2009 by robertkyriakides
I am sitting in my hotel room very early on a dark Californian morning, after a cramped flight and a sleepless night. The Orange County skyline is littered lights that no one needs. On the freeway from the airport the High Occupancy Vehicle lanes (two or more people per car) were empty but the other [...]
Filed under: George Bush, carbon dioxide, climate change, global warming, gordon brown | Tagged: climate change warnings, George Bush, Hu jintao, Obama | 1 Comment »
Posted on September 22, 2009 by robertkyriakides
In the United Kingdom there are only six large suppliers of gas and electricity who count their customers in the millions. There are a handful of other suppliers who count their customers in the tens of thousands but the biggest six have a dominant position in the energy market. Do they abuse this market dominance?
Filed under: carbon dioxide, climate change, electricity, energy, fuel, gas, global warming, nuclear | 1 Comment »
Posted on September 21, 2009 by robertkyriakides
If you have an area of expertise you will first turn to that expertise to solve any problem, even problems that are not directly related to your area of expertise. So it is with lawyers and climate change. The Legal Sector Alliance (LSA) is a group of 124 law firms and legal services organisations who [...]
Filed under: climate change, global warming, law | Tagged: enforcement of climate change measures, John Chesshire, Legal Sector Alliance, LSA | 2 Comments »