Why hasn’t a drop in CO2 emissions caused atmospheric levels to decline? A reasonable question. See Scripps’ answer and also scroll down to see Robert del Rosso’s reply. see entry …
Climate change: Zero emissions law should be PM’s legacy
Leading climate scientists have called for Theresa May to make her “legacy” a target to cut greenhouse gases to zero by 2050. A group of experts have written to the prime minister calling for her to enshrine a target for “net zero” emissions in national law. Experts claim the target is necessary to avoid dangerous […]
Atmospheric CO2: Looking at the data
It might seem there was very little left to say about the rise in atmospheric CO2 due to anthropogenic emissions. But the other day my colleague Martin sent me a link to two presentations at the Scripps Institute ‘Home of the Keeling Curve‘, and I found out there was plenty left to say. Scientists there presented data which […]
The Nuclear Option Is the Real Green Deal.
Alan Emery has spoken to the CACOR lunnch meetings in Ottawa recently; this appeared in the Wall Street Journal on Feb 25. The Nuclear Option Is the Real Green Deal. A coal plant produces about as much toxic waste in an hour as a nuclear plant produces in a year. John Rie and Alan Emery […]
Letter to a federal politician
By Past CACOR Chair, John Hollins 2019 January 4 Dear Fred, During the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in Katowice in December, a team of 80 scientists led by Corinne Le Quere, Director of the Tyndall Centre of Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, UK anticipated that global emissions of carbon […]