The public consultation on the proposed expansion to Heathrow Airport is over. This week has seen climate change activists from Greenpeace climbing a plane(1) and some from Plane Stupid on the roof of the Houses of Parliament(2) to protest at the expansion, and the way the Government has dealt with consultation on it. We knew [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Heathrow
Posted in Climate Change, Transport, tagged Aeroplanes, carbon emissions, Climate Change, Heathrow on 28 February, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Letter
Posted in Uncategorized on 26 February, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My Dad get’s a bit pissed off, as I do, with the inadequacies of the UK Government. But instead of moaning about them on a website like I do, he writes letters to newspapers (amongst other things) – and every now and then he writes a good one.
Below is a recent ‘good one’……..
Sir,
The three [...]
Six Degrees
Posted in Books, Climate Change, tagged Climate Change, Global Warming, Mark Lynas, Sir David King, Six Degrees on 17 February, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The IPCC’s third assessment in 2001 predicted a temperature rise of between 1.4 and 5.8 degrees worldwide by the end of this century depending upon how the world responds to the threat of climate change over the coming years (1).
Mark Lynas decided to try and understand what this would actually mean. What would a temperature [...]
