Climate Change

Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has been quick to highlight the importance he places on tackling Climate Change, unleashing his new plan for a ‘green hotline’ in November of this year. The hotline ...

Ever since the Kyoto agreement was signed by most countries in the world attention has been focused not only on maintaining commitments to reduce greenhouse gases as set out in the Kyoto Protocol, ...

Although we cannot entirely agree on the causes or future direction of Climate Change, we are all pretty certain that our climate is changing. Flash floods, hotter winters and more erratic weather ...

It is widely agreed that humanity can help to prevent climate change through reduction of harmful 'greenhouse gases'. This can be achieved on an international, national, corporate, institutional and ...

Whilst the world tries to agree limits on carbon emissions, the task is made harder due to the rate at which some countries are developing industrially. The difficulty, in part, is that it may be ...

The issue over whether countries are meeting their Kyoto agreements are rather shady and depends really on who you are speaking to. As with anything approaching politics, statistics are often used ...

Although it could be argued that climate change has been a natural and frequently occurring phenomenon over the recordable history of planet Earth, scientists, politicians and individuals have ...

Whilst it can be little doubted that there has been measurable climate change over the last century, with a marked increase in temperature in the last 10-20 years, it is very difficult to gauge ...

As the specific nature of climate change is not fully known, the consequences cannot be gauged precisely. However, there is overwhelming agreement that the average world temperature is rising, and ...

As early as 1753 Joseph Black discovered 'carbon dioxide', a gas that he referred to as 'fixed air' because it is denser than air. In 1824 Jean Joseph Baptiste Fourier first argued that increases in ...