According to a study released in the US magazine Nature, the carbon dioxide and methane concentrations are currently at their highest in the last 800,000 years. This is the conclusion drawn by European scientists after drilling the ice of Antarctica over 3 kilometers. According to Le Figaro it is the result of more than 20 […]
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Lord Nicholas Stern released last month a new report on climate change mitigation : Key Elements of a Global Deal on Climate Change (pdf). It focuses on the increasing risks of inaction and stresses that the commitments of both developed and developing countries are vital. To the AFP quoting Lord Stern, he underestimated the threat
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This is the conclusion of studies done by German climate scientists. This would be due to the slowing activity of the Gulf Stream (pictured left) in both Atlantic and Pacific oceans. This might be a very good news for all us that shouldn’t be seen as a proof that climate change is a scam or
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I seldom watch the news on TV, so I was surprised to see a small news on environment exactly as I switched it on. That one was on global warming, and was quoting the WWF. According to this renowned environmental organization : “Climate change is having a greater and faster impact on the Arctic than
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It is said in France that we have to cut by a factor four our emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 compared to 1990, and in a global scale by a factor two. It might seem impossible. But the more I am thinking about it, the more I believe it actually can be done if
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I knew that Germany had plans to build coal fired plants. Little did I know that according to this great article from the IHT other European countries like Italy are willing to do so. In 1958, I wouldn’t be surprised or anything, but in 2008, with the growing fears of a full scale global warming,
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It seems that the former vice president of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize Al Gore (pictured left) is more and more in the news. This is due to me to make major topics of the environment protection and climate change mitigation in the elections which will happen later this year in the USA.
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According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center and the British Antarctic Survey, a large chunk of the Antarctica disintegrated due to climate change. This is yet another proof that Earth’s climate is warming more and more as prior to this event, this region was considered as somehow preserved by global warming. The beginning
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The UK newspaper The Guardian published last December a fantastic map displaying all countries and their respective carbon emissions. Very visual, it enables us to see easily who are the largest carbon emitters and even the thumbnail on your left shows the huge importance the USA and China have. According to this rating, France is
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The European Space Agency observed for the first time in the history of sciences the emissions of carbon dioxide at a regional scale. This enable us to see from where these greenhouse gas emissions come from and thus to act locally to decrease them. As the map above shows, the most emitting regions are located
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