A frosty G20 puts global warming on ice – Comment – Voices – The Independent: Great article. Like many such meetings, the major part of the the G20 meeting gets diverted to North Korea or Egypt or Syria. Too bad, there’s a lot the the G20 can do, besides putter with the politics that’s taken over the news today. Surprisingly, there was movement on making progress on the very best places to push hard related…
Holding back the ocean (via The Cost of Energy) The inevitability of sea level rise (emphasis added): Small numbers can imply big things. Global sea level rose by a little less than 0.2 metres during the 20th century – mainly in response to the 0.8 °C of warming humans have caused through greenhouse…
The Keeling Curve | How Much CO2 Can The Oceans Take Up?: “Recent estimates have calculated that 26 percent of all the carbon released as CO2 from fossil fuel burning, cement manufacture, and land-use changes over the decade 2002–2011 was absorbed by the oceans. (About 28 percent went to plants and roughly 46 percent to the atmosphere.) During this time, the average annual total release of was 9.3 billion tons of carbon per year, thus…
Sea levels set for a ‘continuing rise’ for generations — The Daily Climate: So here’s the story. It’s already baked into the cake. The current setting has sea levels rising for decades. Even if we all went to carbon neutral tomorrow. The basics are that greenhouse gasses will persist in the atmosphere for decades, even centuries. The most prevalent is Carbon Dioxide (CO2) which will stay in the atmosphere for 70 years, maybe 100. So,…
Reflections on Sustainability: Earth Day, April 22, 2013 (www.EarthDay.org) … (or International Mother Earth Day) Earth Day 2013: The Face of Climate Change It’s not so much that people don’t care. . . Being green, and being sustainable, is something that we all would happily do, if it wasn’t inconvenient to do so. And if it was easy to do. And if we knew the best place to start. And if it wasn’t too complicated to do…
Better BTU Blog: Global Climate Change Summit Brings Questions of America’s Role in Reversing Carbon Trends: Great article on the point that no government is leading on sustainability, at least in terms of those countries that count, namely the US, China and maybe India. It is amazing and surprising that conservation and energy efficiency (EE) efforts don’t move forward even without any government assistance or encouragement. A kilowatt or gallon never used is one that…
