When I first started writing about housing 50-plus years ago, the public utilities in my Washington, D.C., market were going toe-to-toe trying to win the hearts and minds of local builders. Electric heating and cooking were king, but natural gas was making big inroads. I don’t know who won the battle, if there ever was a clear […]
Paleoclimates help us to forecast future climates
Past is key to predicting future climate, scientists say Past carbon dioxide concentrations (at left) compared to possible future emissions scenarios (at right): The rate of current emissions is much faster – occurring over decades – unlike geological changes, which occur over millions of years. If emissions continue unabated, carbon dioxide levels could exceed the […]
WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT CLIMATE
WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT CLIMATE Read about one person living within each person’s average allowable personal CO2 budget of one tonne per year if the temperature is not to rise over 1.5 degrees. (Even this ‘low’ figure is forecast to give a one third chance of failure. Think about it, in what other aspect […]
Menacing Methane – An Analysis
“The story of methane really is a story of a very serious definitive threat to our future existence on this planet.” (Peter Wadhams) Legendary Arctic explorers Sir James Clark Ross, who located the northern magnetic pole in 1831 and Sir William Edward Parry, who set a record in 1827 for the Farthest North exploration serve […]
Geological Society of London Scientific Statement: what the geological record tells us about our present and future climate
Geology is the science of how the Earth functions and has evolved and, as such, it can contribute to our understanding of the climate system and how it responds to the addition of carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere and oceans. Observations from the geological record show that atmospheric CO2 concentrations are now at […]
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