OCDE OBSERVER - MARS 2010 - Climate change and agriculture At least 14% of global greenhouse gas emissions come directly from the farm sector. That is more than transport and not far behind the contribution from industry. How does agriculture produce such high emissions? 'Like a furnace': Massive heatwave could roast Australian records "Days when it feels like a furnace outside are not going to be great for any moisture that's still around," she said. Apart from humans caught in the prolonged heat, wildlife from birds to bees, livestock and pets may also struggle. On present forecasts, the hottest places may be in South Australia, with the Bureau of Meteorology indicating back-to-back days of 49 and 50 degrees in some remote regions for next Wednesday and Thursday. Ms Westcott said a "very weak pressure pattern" meant the heat has been able to build over the inland with little disturbance from cold fronts. The system will drift slowly eastwards next week. Diana Eadie, a bureau forecaster, said the late arrival of the monsoon over northern Australia had also contributed to the build-up of the "very warm air mass" that would start to circulate southwards.
Former Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull says Trump is the world's 'leading climate denier' Donald Trump is the world’s “leading climate denier”, the former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has said. Turnbull, who lost the prime ministership in August 2018 in part because of his own party’s opposition to his plans to do more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, made the comments to BBC Newsnight on Tuesday (Wednesday morning, Australian time). The US president told the world’s business leaders to stop listening to “prophets of doom” as he used a keynote speech at the World Economic Forum to attack the teenage activist Greta Thunberg over her climate crisis warnings. Asked about the comments, Turnbull replied that Trump had been “quite a prophet of doom himself”, citing his acceptance speech to the 2016 Republic convention in which Trump painted the picture “of America threatened by crime and gangs [and] invasion from asylum seekers”, which Turnbull labelled “quite apocalyptic”. “He uses the politics of fear when it suits him,” Turnbull said.
Avaaz - The most important petition we’ve ever done Update: 12 November 2014 A transition to 100% clean energy is essential, economical and totally possible. Already Avaaz has hand-delivered this 100% clean petition to UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, and to French President, François Hollande. But that's just the beginning. As we head to the critical Paris Climate Summit next year we need millions more to call on our governments and institutions to make this critical clean energy transition. FVM - Climate change and food Production and consumption of food generate emissions of greenhouse gases. We call this the carbon footprint. Production and consumption of food accounts for 22–31% of the EU countries' overall impact on the climate in the form of greenhouse gas emissions. Different foods have different carbon footprints.
No one job is worth saving at the expense of climate catastrophe. Not even Scott Morrison's Would the prime minister rule out protecting Australians from terrorism if it cost a single job? Would he promise that no nurse, teacher or other public servant would be sacked in pursuit of a budget surplus? Of course not. But when it comes to preventing dangerous climate change, the government whose policies closed the entire Australian car industry claims that every job is sacred. Yeah, right. The one thing we can say with certainty about the coal industry is that, regardless of climate policy, automation will decimate coal communities in the coming decade.
Et klimavenligt Norden : – Nordiske studier af klimagasreduktioner Simple search Advanced search Statistics EnglishSvenskaNorsk Et klimavenligt Norden: – Nordiske studier af klimagasreduktioner CiteExportLink to record untitled The definition of a greenhouse gas is at the same time very simple and very complicated for the ordinary man (or woman !) : such a gaz is “just” a gas mixed in the atmosphere that absorbs the infrared radiation emitted by the earth’s surface. We are not accustomed to these gases because neither nitrogen nor oxygen, the two most abundant gases of the atmosphere (78% and 21%, respectively), that many of us have heard of, have this ability to intercept infrared radiation. But once this is said, what are these gases exactely ?
Antarctic temperature rises above 20C for first time on record The Antarctic has registered a temperature of more than 20C (68F) for the first time on record, prompting fears of climate instability in the world’s greatest repository of ice. The 20.75C logged by Brazilian scientists at Seymour Island on 9 February was almost a full degree higher than the previous record of 19.8C, taken on Signy Island in January 1982. It follows another recent temperature record: on 6 February an Argentinian research station at Esperanza measured 18.3C, which was the highest reading on the continental Antarctic peninsula. These records will need to be confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization, but they are consistent with a broader trend on the peninsula and nearby islands, which have warmed by almost 3C since the pre-industrial era – one of the fastest rates on the planet.
Beware oil execs in environmentalists’ clothing – BP could derail real change BP’s got a new boss, Bernard Looney. He doesn’t wear a tie, he’s on Instagram and he’s going to shrink its carbon footprint to “net zero” by 2050. Is this for real? It’s a sign the tide is turning. untitled “The gripping story of the most important environmental law case ever decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Richard Lazarus’s compelling narrative is enlivened by colorful characters, a canny dissection of courtroom strategy, and a case where the stakes are, literally, as big as the world.” —Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent
Shrinking Ozone Hole, Climate Change Are Causing Atmospheric "Tug of War" The notorious Antarctic “ozone hole” sparked worldwide concern after its discovery in the 1980s, and for good reason — declining ozone allows harmful ultraviolet radiation to reach the Earth’s surface, a major threat to public health. But the ozone hole had another effect on the planet: It caused major atmospheric changes in the Southern Hemisphere. With less ozone trapping solar radiation higher in the atmosphere, the stratosphere began to cool. The jet stream shifted toward the South Pole.