Global warming is having a seemingly peculiar effect on winter weather in the northern United States, detailed in a new report from the National Wildlife Federation.
“Oddball winter weather is yet another sign of how uncontrolled carbon pollution amounts to an unchecked experiment on people and nature,” said Dr. Amanda Staudt, climate scientist, National Wildlife Federation. [...]
Global Warming Bringing More Oddball Winter Weather
January 31st, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: · carbon, Climate change, flood, global warming, Pollution, rain, snow, storms, weather, winter
HIGH STREET SETS STANDARD FOR DEMONSTRATION OF CARBON NEUTRALITY
October 20th, 2009 · No Comments
BSI announces the development of PAS 2060, a new standard which will ensure a consistent and comparable approach to carbon neutrality claims. Developed in co-operation with the Department of Energy and Climate Change and household names, including Marks & Spencer, Eurostar and the Cooperative, PAS 2060 is expected to restore consumers’ confidence in the credibility [...]
Tags: · bsi, carbon neutrality, Climate change, consumer, emissions, Energy, marks and spencer, Pollution, shops
Air quality report issued
July 17th, 2009 · No Comments
The European commission has produced a report on air quality. In total 33 countries including the 25 EU member states have provided air quality data for 2007.
Tags: · air, carbon, commision, European, ozone, Pollution, quality
What will you be swimming in this summer?
July 10th, 2009 · No Comments
Thinking about hitting the beach this summer? well if so you might want to check out the latest bathing water quality reports from the European Environment Agency to make sure your holiday swim is not full of surprises. By looking through the reports it will help you choose which beeches and bathing areas you visit [...]
Tags: · bathing, beach, eea, environment, holiday, Pollution, report, sea, summer, swimming
Are plants our saviour from the Climate Crunch
July 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
Could plants save us from the rising carbon dioxide levels from human emissions and greenhouse gases and save us from the Climate Crunch?
Tags: · carbon, change, climate, climate crunch, crunch, emissions, gases, glaciers, greenhouse, ice age, plants, Pollution
UK Budget reaction: Scrappage scheme subsidises gas-guzzlers
April 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
The campaign for better transport have commented of the UK Chancellors new iniative to offer £2000 for trading in a car older than ten years when purchasing a new one.
The car scrappage scheme was slammed by Campaign for Better Transport. Executive director Stephen Joseph said: “This scheme has no environmental criteria, so it won’t result [...]
Tags: · Campaign for Better Transport, government, Green-collar worker, Greenhouse gas, Liverpool, Pollution, Public transport, Stephen Joseph
‘POLLUTION RADAR’ DEVELOPED TO PROVIDE UNPRECEDENTED PICTURE OF URBAN SMOG
March 13th, 2009 · No Comments
Scientists and industrialists have invented a sophisticated new air quality measuring device that can act as a pollution radar over cities.
A team from the Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd, the University of Leicester and EADS Astrium are behind the technology that can be placed on satellites to provide unprecedented detail of gases in the atmosphere.
The researchers [...]
Tags: · climate, detection, eco, gore, Pollution, radar, smog, weather, world
Environment satellite launches
February 9th, 2009 · No Comments
NASA has successfully launched a satellite than will monitor environmental events around the world, such as pollution levels and weather conditions.
The National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration NOAA-N prime spacecraft launched aboard the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket and carries equipment and instruments to study mrthane air pollution levels, quantity and extent of ozone and [...]
Tags: · environment, launch, nasa satellite, noaa, Pollution, weather
California expects fast Obama move on car pollution
January 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
California’s top climate change official on Wednesday predicted President Barack Obama’s administration would let the state impose its own tough limits on greenhouse gas emissions from cars by May, in what would be a victory for environmentalists.
California asked the new Environmental Protection Agency chief to revisit the Bush administration’s 2007 decision that denied the state’s [...]
Tags: · arnold, california, Car, emissions, obama, Pollution, president, schwarzenegger, traffic
EU Gives Polluters a Christmas
December 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Polluting industries have received an early Christmas gift from European Union leaders who have agreed to weaken their proposals for fighting climate change in order to protect short-term commercial gains.
Winding up a two-day summit in Brussels Dec. 12, the EU’s governments decided that a plan to make energy-intensive firms pay for their emissions of greenhouse [...]
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