Posts tagged 'global warming'
25 August 2011
Is There Any Need For Sustainability?
I have recently read Tim Jackson's "Prosperity Without Growth - Economics for a Finite Planet". It proposes that we refocus how we manage our economies to take into account the limits on the earth, but is rather vague exactly how we should do this -...
Read more11 July 2010
Two Books For All Environmentalists
I have just finished the second of two books that are must-reads for those interested in our planet. They are Nigel Lawson's "An appeal to reason - a cool look at global warming" and Bjørn Lomborg’s “Cool it – the skeptical environmentalist’s guide...
Read more17 June 2010
How Do Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases And The Earth's Orbit All Link Together?
I've written a number of blogs now where I try to get to grips with some of the numbers underlying global warming. So far, I agree that the historic figures do demonstrate global warming over the last 100+ years within a relatively wide band of poss...
Read more29 May 2010
Can We Save Ourselves From Global Warming?
I went to a public lecture by Professor John Beddington who is currently Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government. He was lecturing on Climate Change as a University of York Biology lecture. And yesterday he was back in London attacking climate s...
Read more16 April 2010
Sanity Check On Global Warming Numbers
As I have explained in several of my last few blogs, I have been looking more closely at the detail of the case for global warming. I have analysed global average temperatures as provided by NASA that uses information from the Hadley Centre in the U...
Read more13 April 2010
Environmental Policies from Key Parties - Part 1
I have purposely started by reviewing key environmental areas and international development other than climate change first, as they are just as (if not more) important than global warming. In particular, I have looked at the following key areas - w...
Read more07 April 2010
First Impressions On UK Political Parties From Green Agenda
As promised, I have started the process of looking at the main political parties from the perspective of the environment and international development. I think I may have bitten off a bit more than I had expected with this, but I will continue. Yes...
Read more04 April 2010
Global warming - reworking out the actual changes
As already discussed, I have become sanguine about the global warming information that I have been reading and hearing from the media - lots of noise and jumping up & down by all sorts of people. And perhaps, I have taken too much on trust and s...
Read more28 March 2010
Global warming - what's the fuss all about?
I have to admit to becoming more skeptical about global warming since I began studying at The Open University on an Environmental Studies and Science Course. I doubt that becoming less convinced about much of the stuff written about global warming w...
Read more21 February 2010
How We Are Reducing Our Family Environmental Impact – Insulating the Loft
One of the major users of energy in a house is for heating the building. Space and water heating in homes gives off about 20% of the UK's carbon dioxide emissions, which is about 5 tonnes CO2 per home every year.
Read more02 February 2010
Carbon Offsets and Steenberg Carbon Footprints
Every year on slightly ad hoc basis, I sit down and try and calculate our carbon footprint and then offset for the greenhouse gasses that make up our carbon footprint. It's a guesstimate because it does not include all aspects of the Steenbergs busi...
Read more21 December 2009
UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen
The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is the perfect example for the phrase "a damp squib". Squibs are small explosives that are used for special effects and in the past for clearing away coal in the mines when they were sold as "Miners' Sa...
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