CO2 Emissions : More Is The New Less

As part of its climate change strategy, the Government set a UK aviation target in January 2009, to reduce UK aviation emissions back to 2005 levels in 2050. Together with deep cuts in other sectors, this would achieve the UK’s legislated economy-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) target to reduce emissions by 80% in 2050 relative to 1990. 

http://www.theccc.org.uk/sectors/aviation

Saturday, 27 March 2010
The political arguments about a third runway for London's Heathrow airport broke out again fiercely last night after a High Court judge declined to quash the project but told the Government to get its aviation policy in order.

On Blogging And Soothsaying


The internet is a wonderful means of spreading information, but there is a danger of spreading misinformation.  It probably takes far fewer years of education to read a science article than to fully understand it.  The danger is that, just as many people rely on their horoscopes, so too do many people rely on their favorite bloggers to do their critical thinking for them.

It's Earth Hour - Let's Black Out Big Time!


Earth hour is an event organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature in which participants switch off lights for one hour at night.  The objective is to produce an hour of darkness as a means of highlighting the need for global action on climate change.

Earth Hour - climate change campaigners urge global switch-off

The fourth annual lights-out event expects 1 billion participants, and counts for the first time international landmarks including the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State building and the Burj Khalifa

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/26/energy-climate-change

Nonsense On Ice


What follows is quoted from an article:
'Climate Cools But Arctic Ice Scares Continue'
by Dr. Tim Ball  Monday, January 18, 2010:

My badge of honor is an attack by Phil Jones, disgraced and displaced Director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) whose leaked emails showed how they falsified climate science. On May 22, 2009 Jones wrote to Mann, “Our web server has found this piece of garbage - so wrong it is unbelievable that Tim Ball wrote a decent paper in Climate Since AD 1500.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/19087

Why Cow-Driven Global Warming Is A Load Of Bull


All animals breathe in air and then breathe it out again.  This astounding fact, seemingly new to some web users, has nothing whatsoever to do with global warming.

Some people are still seemingly astonished to find that cows breathe out air deficient in oxygen and with a surfeit of CO2.  They eagerly report this brand new finding to a breathless crowd of eager supporters of any 'proof' that humans are not responsible for the inexorable rise in global CO2.