/ Global Warming

• Climate Change: Clean Coal, Nuclear Energy or Simply Energy Savings?

  On November 6, 2009 The World Coal Institute released its new report "Securing the Future - Financing CCS in a Post-2012 World." One revealing sentence on the website says “significant investments are needed in Carbon Capture and Geological Storage (CCS) to allow the technology to play its critical role in global efforts to address climate change” further stressing that governments have a central role to play, notably to finance this new technology that cannot be borne alone by the private sector. The report comes out at a time where the “clean coal” concept is the latest trend, like saving the…

• Speakable and Unspeakable About The Copenhagen Climate Meeting

  An informative essay by Ferdinand E. Banks on the Copenhagen Climate meeting, Energy Economics, the Nuclear revival and why Global Warming should be uniting us / not dividing as a new energy economy needs to be put into place- and fast! Several years ago I gave a number of energy economics lectures which included an insistence that the Kyoto conference on the environment was badly flawed. My reasoning turned on the neglect of nuclear energy, as well as the decision taken at that meeting to promote cap-and-trade (or emissions trading) as the main device for offsetting a too rapid accumulation…

• The economic impact of global warming

  The costs of Global Warming are tremendous, estimates of course vary but most figures put out are in the trillions. So what does this mean for you and how are you directly affected by these costs? It’s difficult to answer that question, because the first large-scale study of the economic impact of global warming wasn’t released until recently. But let’s look at some of the data we do have. In 2007, scientists at the Carnegie Institution measured, over the past 20 years, the annual yields of the world’s six largest crops (which account for 55% of non-meat calories consumed by…

• Oil and the Environment - What are Oil Companies Doing to Clean up Their Act

  The world continues to thirst for oil with in an ever increasing fervor, yet simultaneously struggles to fully grasp and appreciate the obstacles encountered by those who bring that oil to their local pumps. There has always been a necessary trade-off when it comes to technology and industrial advancement, as in order to experience the many benefits modern society offers us, we have to agree to give up some portion of nature and accept a certain amount of environmental damage. Logic dictates that “we can’t have our cake and eat it to,” but recently the oil industry has been seeking…

• Global Warming - Are We Being Lied To?

  Am I the only person concerned about the glaringly obvious inconsistencies regarding the information we are being fed on global temperature changes? Why am I hearing more and more respected climatologists warning us of a potential “Mini-Ice Age” approaching if the cooling trends of the earth’s atmosphere don’t reverse? Yet at the exact same time, governments continue to push more and more “draconian” edicts supposedly intended to protect us from our own self inflicted, impending demise brought about by Global Warming? Did you know that according to many scientists, temperatures around the planet have actually been on a steady decline…

• What are the Causes of Global warming

  It’s a scientifically proven “Fact,” that over the past century, our planet has slowly been warming up. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the average temperature around the world has gradually risen by one degree fharenheit.While this minimal warming might not seem all that significant, the truth is, according to Climatic Specialists all around the globe, the over-all impact will most certainly prove to be devastating if this continual warming process is not somehow ebated. Scientists have been busily searching and studying in order to determine precisely what the primary, “key factors” are behind this progressive “heating up” process.…

• What is Global warming – A Beginners Guide!

  Global warming has been a buzzword in the media and politics for some time now with many famous faces jumping on the bandwagon asking us to change our ways before it’s all too late. But with all the news stories and scientific reports flying around the basics are often overlooked. So what exactly is global warming? Global warming is simply a rise in the temperature of the earths atmosphere. The IPCC (The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control) concluded that it is mankind and our burning of fossil fuels and deforestation that has been the main contributor the rise (one degree…

• What are the effects of Global warming

  Whether you are a believer or sceptic it’s impossible to deny that global warming is taking place. A large percentage of climate scientists point the finger at mankind for the majority of the temperature increase and our burning of fossil fuels as the main culprit. The Intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) has predicted that global temperatures will continue to rise much quicker than they had originally reported.Politicians and big business have now woken up to the dangers a severe change in the climate could cause and are sponsoring efforts to reduce the amount of pollutants and greenhouse gases we…