The last part of the Fourth Assessment report (AR4) of the IPCC was released Friday in Valencia, Spain. The main news is that the situation is worse than forecast during the writing of the report. Mankind thus have to act quick and in a massive way if it wants to avoid global warming and can’t […]
Final part of AR4 released. We have to act NOW ! Read More »
The Worldwatch Institute, a US-based environmental NGO, recently released it’s newest Vital Signs report which brings several worrying facts and urge us even more to act fast. This version notes that the energy consumption and the depletion of natural resources are threatening the world at an unprecedented rate. All this put at risk both Mankind
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One of the main events of the week is a study stating that greenhouse gases emissions are increasing 35 percent faster than forecast since 2000. The causes for such an important increase have both economic and climatic origins and each reason account for nearly half of the phenomenon. Indeed, human-made emissions increased in an important
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As I mentioned it previously in this article, in January the UK Met Office forecast that 2007 would break all-time records on a meteorological point of view. By reviewing the data available with the first months of the year, it seems to be absolutely the case. This is what the United Nations revealed via one
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I came across a very disturbing fact via an article in the Financial Times. According to the World Bank, air and water pollution in Chinese large cities kill nearly 750.000 people every year. The government of the People’s Republic of China asked that a third of the report was erased in order to avoid “public
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Pr. Socolow and Pacala, in their stabilization wedges theory and their website ( the Climate Mitigation Initiative ) invite people to pick up their own wedges to create their own solution. I chose mine and explain my choices.
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As I wrote on this post, I will give today the details on the 15 wedges as well as some general comments on the Stabilization Wedges Theory.
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Science et Vie, one of the magazines I read, is a wonderful source of data. Albeit the fact I am no scientist and I don’t got any scientific degree, I always have been largely interested by hard sciences. It begun with my interest for astronomy.
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One of the most interesting theories on climate change mitigation I came across was written by Robert Socolow and Stephen Pacala, professors at Princeton. This theory gives 15 ways to decrease our carbon dioxide emissions.
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The IPCC paper shows the existence of numerous solutions to mitigate and even stop climate change. Here are some of them that can, and have to, be putted in place before 2030.
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