Dirty air … biofuels account for just over 2% of UK road fuel. Photograph: Corbis
Less than one fifth of the biofuel used on UK roads meets government environmental standards intended to safeguard human rights and guarantee carbon savings, figures released today show.
Tags: · agency, AIB, biofuel, blog, environmental, fuel, inconvenient, not, renewable, standard, UK
The scientists were unable to find a link between cosmic rays and cloud cover
Here’s an interesting article from EDIE. Following a year long study, emeritus professors Terry Sloan, of Lancaster University, and Arnold Wolfendale, of Durham University, said they could find no link between cosmic rays and global warming.
Tags: · causing, change, climate, cosmic, inconvenient, not, rays
One of the world’s leading climate scientists warns today that the EU and its international partners must urgently rethink targets for cutting carbon dioxide in the atmosphere because of fears they have grossly underestimated the scale of the problem.
In a startling reappraisal of the threat, James Hansen, head of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space [...]
Tags: · climate, enough, inconvenient, not, radical, target
One billion people can get electricity for the first time for little more than the reported cost of one month’s war in Iraq said Rajendra Pachauri, the head of a Nobel peace prize-winning U.N. panel of climate scientists. Pachauri is supporting a campaign “lighting a billion lives,” led by India’s [...]
Tags: · inconvenient, lamps, Make, Nobel, not, scientist, solar, war
Global warming’s threat to the existence of the exotic resorts and beaches tourists crave has not dented holidaymakers’ appetites for pollution-producing, long-haul trips, experts said at Berlin’s annual tourism fair.
In his opening speech to the International Tourism Exchange fair earlier this week, German Economy Minister Michael Glos said climate change was a serious problem for [...]
Tags: · cooling, global, inconvenient, not, travelers, warming
Sea levels are set to fall over millions of years, making the current rise blamed on climate change a brief interruption of an ancient geological trend, scientists said on Thursday.
Tags: · fall, inconvenient, not, oceans, rise
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