Archive for the 'Environment' Category
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Intense rainfall due to global warming could raise flood risk
Environment: Intense rainfall due to global warming could raise flood risk. The Guardian reports that “Climate scientists have issued a fresh warning over the future risk of flooding after research showed heavy rainstorms are likely to become even more intense than predicted.”
Note that this is not flooding due to sea level rise, but simply [...]
Published by Paul on August 8th, 2008 tagged Environment | Comment now »
Global Warming: Act Now or Wait?
Global Warming: Act Now or Wait? is a great article which summarises the consequenses of acting or not acting on global warming.
Published by Paul on August 7th, 2008 tagged Environment | Comment now »
Sea Level Rise Explorer
The guys over at Firetree.Net have made a great Google Maps hack so you can explore what would happen to your area as sea level rises. This only goes to +14m, which is just getting started if any of the large ice sheets in Greenland or Antarctica slide off into the sea.
Published by Paul on August 5th, 2008 tagged Environment | Comment now »
Tax Rebates for Gardens Petition
That’s it! I have had enough of England, far from being a green and pleasant land, becoming a concrete and ugly one. I may not live in the UK any more, but that doesn’t mean I don’t love the things that make England a nice place to be.
I have created an [...]
Published by Paul on August 19th, 2007 tagged Environment | Comment now »
IPCC Report - Game Over!
So, the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is out and it states that scientists are more than 90% certain that climate change is caused by our actions. Let’s think about that. That means that there is a 90% that taking no action now means we will continue to change the [...]
Published by Paul on February 2nd, 2007 tagged Environment | Comment now »
An Inconvenient Truth
My wife and I just saw An Inconvenient Truth at the cinema.
If you have any questions about global warming, and want to actually get some facts on the issue rather than dumbed down “opinion”, go see “An Inconvenient Truth”.
The most shocking item for me: Out of hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific articles, zero question [...]
Published by Paul on January 23rd, 2007 tagged Environment | Comment now »
The Sun - 27 ways to go green in 2007
I can’t believe it! I am writing in support of the Sun after all the bad things I usually say about that comic.
In The Sun Online - News: 27 ways to go green in 2007 they tell you 27 easy ways to be more environmentally friendly. Even I only manage 21 of them.
Published by Paul on January 2nd, 2007 tagged Environment, Practical | Comments Off
UK Govt covers up GM contamination
The Independent has an article about the UK government privately assuring UK supermarkets that it’s OK to continue selling rice from the USA that has been contaminated with Genetically Modified rice. So consumers in the UK can now secretly be forced to eat GM rice when they have chosen not to. All to [...]
Published by Paul on September 17th, 2006 tagged Environment, Globalisation | Comments Off
Ban the bulbs!
banthebulb.org is a web site dedicated to banning incandescant bulbs. I got rid of all mine nine years ago. Saved money from day one. In those days it took more than a year to get the payback. These days it is more like a month or two. Please change those [...]
Published by Paul on February 7th, 2006 tagged Environment, Organisations, Practical | Comment now »
My new car - Toyota Prius
One of the coolest tech toys on the planet. The Hybrid Synergy Drive equipped Toyota Prius – half petrol – half electric powered – uses a combination of batteries, electrical motor/generator, and regenerative braking to drastically reduce fuel consumption in a full sized and fully equipped saloon car. My new car looks just like this. [...]