Climate change

Today is the global day of action on climate change. Demonstrations on climate change have been organised to coincide with the United Nations Climate Talks (COP14/MOP4) in Poznan, Poland that are taking place between December 1st to 12th 2008. Global greenhouse gas emissions have grown since pre-industrial times, but there has been an increase of 70% between 1970 and 2004. I believe that climate change is the most important issue facing humanity. We are close to the tipping point of no return. Some might argue that now is the wrong time to push the green agenda - instead we should concentrate on preventing a serious recession. This is dangerous ...  Read the complete review

I personally think we should not fall for all the scaremongering about 'global-warming' and 'climate chage' without finding out more and having a healthy debate in which everyone's point of view is given a fair hearing; 'global-warming' and 'climate change' (which is just 'the weather') seem to have been turned into a money-making industry by the powers that be to extract even more cash from hard-working taxpayers. Let's face it, if the powers that be truly believed in 'global-warming' they would not have approved a third runway at Heathrow Airport, they would instead be encouraging people to take fewer flights and they would certainly stop all these summits ...  Read the complete review

Is it me or is this summer shaping up like last summer, vast Catherine-wheel low pressures spinning heavy rain right across the breadth of the UK for four of the five days a week. One of those every fortnight and no summer full-stop, as was the case last year. The met office, who seem to have taken sides on man made global warming (in favor of because it's good for their new commercial side, even offering 'text' weather updates for 15p), have said last years summer was a 'freak event' and so nothing to do with global warming (it was colder and wetter last year). Will this year also be written off and so extracted from those global warming numbers? In the 80s ...  Read the complete review

Everyday on TV and in the press we are fed more information on global warming and climate change and the evidence is there for all to see. Floods, drought, rises in sea level, warming of our seas and changes in wind patterns. It is certainly happening at quite a speed. We are all aware of the needs to reduce the use of fossil fuels and to cut carbon emissions. Our glass, paper and plastic is recycled, but there is one enormous contributor to all this that has not received as much publicity. The developed world throws away vast quantities of food each year and the disposal of this adds significantly to the greenhouse effect and so ...  Read the complete review

Climate change or 'global warming' as it is more commonly known is caused by our day to day activities. We are emitting large amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and this causes our planet to become hotter. The most important greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide (co2) which is produced when we burn coal, oil and natural gas. These are brought from the earth's crust and are used to create petrol, diesel,electricity and gas. When these are used they release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The hotter the earth becomes the warmer our temperatures become. This in turn causes more extreme ...  Read the complete review