http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Greenhouse gas levels rising at fastest rate since 1984" en Sun, 17 May 2026 16:02:15 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13414#post-175753 Sun, 14 Dec 2014 01:13:21 +0000 chdot 175753@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/dec/13/world-climate-disaster-lima-talks-fail" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/dec/13/world-climate-disaster-lima-talks-fail</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13414#post-174568 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:51:03 +0000 I were right about that saddle 174568@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Can anyone look at this graph for more than a few seconds without engaging in displacement behaviour?</p> <p><a href="http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/#mlo_full" rel="nofollow">http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/#mlo_full</a></p> <p>It should really be the backdrop to every single news report on television. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13414#post-174481 Wed, 03 Dec 2014 19:23:26 +0000 chdot 174481@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>World on course for warmest year </p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30311816" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30311816</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13414#post-171058 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 18:29:23 +0000 chdot 171058@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120134/climate-change-denier-james-inhofe-lead-environment-committee" rel="nofollow">http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120134/climate-change-denier-james-inhofe-lead-environment-committee</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13414#post-170691 Mon, 03 Nov 2014 18:28:59 +0000 crowriver 170691@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Meanwhile in "oil rich" Scotland, the mantra is dual carriageways galore, and bypasses for all. </p> <p>Worried about greehouse gases? Just install a few electric car charging points, buy some hybrid buses and Bob's your uncle.</p> <p>(Shurely shome mishtake? Ed.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13414#post-170587 Sun, 02 Nov 2014 23:08:50 +0000 Ed1 170587@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes I suppose climate change has to be taken more seriously </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13414#post-170583 Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:04:08 +0000 chdot 170583@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/02/rapid-carbon-emission-cuts-severe-impact-climate-change-ipcc-report" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/02/rapid-carbon-emission-cuts-severe-impact-climate-change-ipcc-report</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13414#post-166064 Tue, 23 Sep 2014 19:44:24 +0000 chdot 166064@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/23/leonarodo-dicaprio-un-climate-change-speech-new-york" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/23/leonarodo-dicaprio-un-climate-change-speech-new-york</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13414#post-165978 Tue, 23 Sep 2014 09:24:40 +0000 Min 165978@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Or give them up completely!</em></p> <p>Ha yes, true! You out-greened me. :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13414#post-165971 Tue, 23 Sep 2014 09:14:06 +0000 chdot 165971@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"the properly green thing to do would be to wait until your old phone has worn out"</p> <p>Indeed. </p> <p>Or give them up completely!</p> <p>Too many choices!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13414#post-165967 Tue, 23 Sep 2014 09:10:48 +0000 Min 165967@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Much as I like Apple/products, I think this is a bit 'optimistic'.</em></p> <p>Well, the properly green thing to do would be to wait until your old phone has worn out before buying a new one. But Apple are never going to encourage that! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13414#post-165964 Tue, 23 Sep 2014 08:57:31 +0000 chdot 165964@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>The global economy is undergoing a remarkable transformation which is altering our ability to deal with climate change. The growth of emerging economies, rapid urbanisation and new technological advances are making possible a new path of low-carbon growth in ways that were not apparent even five years ago.</p> <p>We know that if left unchecked, greenhouse gas emissions will cause devastating climate change. What is now becoming clear is that reducing emissions is not only compatible with economic growth and development; if done well, it can actually generate better growth than the old high-carbon model.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/16/climate-change-carbon-tax-low-carbon-infrastructure" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/16/climate-change-carbon-tax-low-carbon-infrastructure</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13414#post-165948 Mon, 22 Sep 2014 20:19:19 +0000 chdot 165948@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Much as I like Apple/products, I think this is a bit 'optimistic'. </p> <p>"</p> <p>Apple CEO Tim Cook shares 'optimistic' views on reversing climate change &amp; selling green products to consumers </p> <p>Taking part in the Climate Week NYC kickoff on Monday, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook expressed a self-described "optimistic" outlook on his company's ability to affect climate change, saying that he believes that consumers, when given the choice, will do the right thing and buy green products.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/09/22/apple-ceo-tim-cook-shares-optimistic-views-on-reversing-climate-change-selling-green-products-to-consumers" rel="nofollow">http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/09/22/apple-ceo-tim-cook-shares-optimistic-views-on-reversing-climate-change-selling-green-products-to-consumers</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13414#post-165882 Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:18:17 +0000 chdot 165882@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>In December of next year, world leaders will come together in Paris at the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference in the hopes of negotiating a strong and binding international agreement to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are warming our planet. The stakes couldn’t be higher - or the need for decisive action more urgent.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.mikebloomberg.com/index.cfm?objectid=BF320327-C29C-7CA2-F99F9AF151B24732" rel="nofollow">http://www.mikebloomberg.com/index.cfm?objectid=BF320327-C29C-7CA2-F99F9AF151B24732</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13414#post-165149 Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:03:21 +0000 I were right about that saddle 165149@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Things can change even in our system when the rich are inconvenienced;</p> <p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11094232/Super-rich-make-last-stand-against-California-drought.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11094232/Super-rich-make-last-stand-against-California-drought.html</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13414#post-165130 Mon, 15 Sep 2014 12:32:33 +0000 chdot 165130@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>With her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate, Klein hopes to set off the kind of powerful mass movement that could – finally – produce the radical changes needed to avoid a global warming catastrophe and fix capitalism at the same time. She argues that we have all been thinking about the climate crisis the wrong way around: it’s about capitalism – not carbon – the extreme anti-regulatory version that has seized global economies since the 1980s and has set us on a course of destruction and deepening inequality.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/14/naomi-klein-interview-capitalism-vs-the-climate" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/14/naomi-klein-interview-capitalism-vs-the-climate</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13414#post-164679 Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:22:37 +0000 chdot 164679@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> Climate scepticism is still rife among the Tory parliamentary party, according to a new poll of MPs.</p> <p>More than twice as many Conservative MPs as Labour MPs who responded to the poll cast doubt on scientists having “conclusively proved” climate change is caused by humans, despite the world’s most authoritative panel of climate scientists last year saying they were 95% that recent global warming is manmade.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://guardianshorts.co.uk/category/60-minute-masterclasses" rel="nofollow">http://guardianshorts.co.uk/category/60-minute-masterclasses</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13414#post-164603 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 21:38:24 +0000 Darkerside 164603@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I even wrote about it...</p> <p><a href="http://www.darkerside.org/2014/09/record-levels-greenhouse-gas-emissions-last-year/" rel="nofollow">http://www.darkerside.org/2014/09/record-levels-greenhouse-gas-emissions-last-year/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13414#post-164578 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:28:17 +0000 Darkerside 164578@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Comments are as depressing as the source articles are interesting. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13414#post-164565 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 13:19:04 +0000 chdot 164565@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29115845" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29115845</a> </p>