Archives for January 2007
Retiring carbon credits
At Global Cool they say they are saving the planet because they have nothing better to do. It is a foundation set up by scientists and celebrities - including Orlando Bloom, Coldplay and Scissor Sisters - bringing the message that one person attempting to change the world will not achieve much; but millions of people […]
BBC Climate Experiment
The BBC and the University of Oxford have been conducting an experiment via home computers that would have taken years had it not been for the thousands of people running computations in the background whilst they worked.
The first results have been published. If you missed it, or like me, don’t have a tv, you can […]
Carbon levels even higher
News is, today, that carbon dioxide levels are rising at a far greater rate than previously thought. Monitoring stations across the globe showed that for the fourth year running CO2 levels in the atmosphere rose dramatically in 2006.
Between 2000 and 2006 we have seen increases in forest fires, heatwaves and drought. According to figures presented […]