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Emissions, emissions reduction

The link between climate change and human activity is undeniable. This is so clear, as to be absurd, yet people keep denying this clear fact. Articles on these subjects will appear below.

Methane emissions that leaked from 2 fossil fuel fields in 2022, caused more warming than the whole of the UK

Tim
May 9, 2023

In many of the rich countries of the world, a great deal of effort is being put into reducing emissions. It is true, that these countries are responsible for a large amount of historical emissions. The problem is, that there are a number of so called carbon bombs that are being recognized around the world. …...

Tim
October 25, 2021

Methane emissions are 80 times more warming that carbon dioxide. They do not stay in the atmosphere for ever, but in the short term, they could still cause the human race an enormous task which could quickly become unmanageable. Methane (natural gas) is often found in the same place as oil yet, bizarrely, extractors are …...

Tim
December 23, 2023

Why is this important? Around the world there are around 3 billion cattle and sheep. These produce around 231 billion pounds of methane each year, which is around 10 billion metric tonnes of methane into the air. Remember that over the first 20 years (it reduces after this) methane traps roughly 80 times the same …...

Tim
March 23, 2023

The human race has set itself the target of keep temperature rises to under 1.5°C. It is therefore an issue if just 3 of the food products could push us past this target. Why are these 3 foods such a problem? Methane! While it breaks down in the atmosphere over a matter of a few …...

Waste and Recycling

We as a human race create a great deal of waste. There is a variety of issues that are caused by this, from proper waste disposal to recycling.

Building electric cars has a high carbon footprint: recycling can change this

Tim
May 8, 2020

Electric cars save carbon dioxide emissions over their lifetime. There are a significant number of fossil fuel producers and combustion engine car produces who will fudge their numbers and suggest the battery cars are actually worse for the environment than fossil fuel cars. As you can imagine this is false. Electric cars are zero emission …...

Tim
December 8, 2024

Increasingly, it seems Shell is a company which repeatedly makes pledges when the light is on them, and then backs away, when no one is looking any more. In the summer, they dropped a pledge to turn 1 million tonnes of plastic a year, back into oil. They now say that this goal is unfeasible. …...

Tim
March 7, 2022

Making new glass from cutlet (small glass pieces) saves significant energy. This is partly because it needs a lower temperature to melt. While it is true that much of the materials that go into glass are not in short supply, it is still more sensible to reuse, particularly if your energy requirements are lower. Apart …...

Tim
August 26, 2021

The average UK household has a footprint of around 20 tonnes. Now it is true, that this is well below USA emissions as that is for 4 people – so average emissions of around 5 tonnes per head. However, with relatively small adjustments, this can be cut dramatically. 12.3% of emissions come from heating, and …...

Tim
April 9, 2021

In the UK we have incredibly stringent rules on recycling. Indeed, there are regular suggestions about giving people smaller bins so that we send less rubbish to the dump. If this is the case, why is so much of our recycling simply being burned?

Tim
March 13, 2021

I have written in the past, about a discovery made on a Japanese dump back in 2016 of a plastic eating enzyme. By working in the lab, scientists have been able to speed this process up 6 times, such that full recycling is thought to be possible of plastics within 2 years.

Tim
November 9, 2020

it would appear that the UK and the USA addiction to plastic is worse than any other countries in the world. As well as general waste the USA also comes between third and eleventh (depending on what’s included) in terms of the amount of their plastic that ends up in the marine ecosystem.

Tim
October 22, 2020

I have written in the past about a fascinating type of bacteria that was found on a Chinese rubbish stump number of years ago. Plastics are a fantastic material because they breakdown very little, therefore giving strong materials for not much money. The problem is that many of the uses that these plastics have been …...

Tim
June 9, 2020

The UK transport and environment department have created a tool to help do the check for people. Unlike the ice assessment which calculates the carbon cost of making the electric car, but left out the cost of making the ice car (why such an unfair comparison wasn’t laughed out of existence, I don’t understand) this …...

Tim
May 14, 2018

The Persian Leopard The Persian Leopard is only found in a few countries and only in very few small numbers. However the fact that it still clings on means that it is far easier to recover this species than it would be were the last few to have disappeared. This is similar to the Amur …...

November 4, 2021June 30, 2022

Renewable energy could save more than $160 trillion in costs by 2050

There has been a constant argument that the cost of moving to renewable energy is too high. However, it is becoming clearer and clearer. Our descendants will quite rightly have a very low level of respect for us.

The idea of saving a small amount of investment now, and not worry about the trillions that this will cost in the future is quite disgusting. What is more foolish, is that while many of these clean technologies do cost now, they will save far more money in the future.

Throughout human history, the human race has fought to leave a better life for their children. Are we seriously saying that we are the first generation who is going to say we don’t care if we make life harder?

IRENA did the analysis, and the found that while global energy demands are likely to double by 2050, 86% of the 2050 demands could be met from renewable energy. The majority of this increase could be met through wind and solar. However, progress is not constant; Trumps foolish solar tariffs the USA lost 20,000 solar energy jobs – talk about America first!

The faster the transition, the greater the impact on the climate change fight. We dont just need to clean up our act, we are going to have to deal with all the damage from the last 2 centuries, and the quicker we make the change, the less clean up we will have to do.

June 17, 2021June 30, 2022

Solving the Climate crisis and biodiversity loss together

Yesterday I was writing about a series of dams that have collapsed in Brazil. We need to remember that there are two imminent threats that we are facing in the natural world.

The world is warming. This is going to make life far harder for our children
We are loosing much of the wilderness on the planet. Unfortunately we rely on this to survive in the long-term

We need to cut carbon emissions dramatically, we know as the human race that if we do not cut emissions dramatically and very fast, our planet will go through horrific change from the loss of the ice caps (and the resulting sea level rise) to the desertificion of large parts of the planet – some of this previously being rainforest.

If we cannot halt the loss of areas such as rainforests, the problem becomes even larger as we destroy one of our largest carbon sinks.

In the west, we have a responsibility to not only cut our own emissions to net zero in the space of a few decades, we must also help developing countries grow their own economies and increase the standard of living for their citizens without destroying what remains of the ecosystems that still exist.

Tag: climate change mitigation

Emissions, emissions reduction

Methane emissions that leaked from 2 fossil fuel fields in 2022, caused more warming than the whole of the UK

Methane emissions in the USA are a significant and rising problem, yet the companies deny the issue

Company Green Grazing from Vietnam is aiming to grow and sell red seaweed, as an additive to livestock feed

Currently Meat, Dairy and rice production will push the earth past 1.5°C on their own, are we doomed?

Waste and Recycling

Building electric cars has a high carbon footprint: recycling can change this

Shell is once again backing off from a pledge

Glass is capable of being endlessly recycled – but some countries are better than others

How can an average UK household reduce their carbon footprint?

The UK sorts our rubbish at higher rates than anywhere else in the world, so why is so much being incinerated

Super enzyme that eats plastic, now 6 times faster

UK and the USA biggest source of waste plastic in the world

Adjustments made have allowed bacteria that eats plastic bottles to do so 6 times faster than naturally

Ice (internal combustion engine)car producers have claimed electric cars are as dirty, recent fair analysis suggest full life emissions are 300% more in combustion engine cars

News in Brief: The Persian Leopard, Accidental Death of one of the last male Marsican bears, and a mutant enzyme which eats plastics

Renewable energy could save more than $160 trillion in costs by 2050

Solving the Climate crisis and biodiversity loss together

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