Mikes10 Â Â 10 #325 Posted July 16, 2019 Since we appear to be well on the way to making planet earth uninhabitable maybe we can mimic earth's atmosphere on Mars. Â https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190715114256.htm Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Nightbird   0 #326 Posted July 16, 2019 On ‎17‎/‎06‎/‎2019 at 18:21, ANGELFIRE1 said: 2015 total emissions country rank Country 2015 total carbon dioxide emissions from fuel combustion (million metric tons) 2015 per capita carbon dioxide emissions from fuel combustion (metric tons) 1 China 9040.74 6.59 2 United States 4997.50 15.53 3 India 2066.01 1.58 4 Russia 1468.99 10.19 5 Japan 1141.58 8.99 6 Germany 729.77 8.93 7 South Korea 585.99 11.58 8 Iran 552.40 6.98 9 Canada 549.23 15.32 10 Saudi Arabia 531.46 16.85 11 Brazil 450.79 2.17 12 Mexico 442.31 3.66 13 Indonesia 441.91 1.72 14 South Africa 427.57 7.77 15 United Kingdom 389.75 5.99 16 Australia 380.93 15.83 17 Italy 330.75 5.45 18 Turkey 317.22 4.10 19 France 290.49 4.37 20 Poland 282.40 7.34 The UK really doe get an unfair bad wrap from some but as that chart shows, we're not that bad. What the climate zealots will say though is that the UK has the headquarters of many of the top polluting companies, but if they weren't h3adquartd here they'd only be headquarted somewhere else. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Baron99   771 #327 Posted August 19, 2019 And another pair of hypocritical "Do as we say, not as we do, folk.  https://www.metro.news/have-royal-pair-gone-plane-daft-over-jet-travel/1680527/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Annoni_mouse   10 #328 Posted August 20, 2019 On 19/08/2019 at 06:30, Baron99 said: And another pair of hypocritical "Do as we say, not as we do, folk.  https://www.metro.news/have-royal-pair-gone-plane-daft-over-jet-travel/1680527/ Ah but when they say people should cut down on air travel, they clearly mean the muggles, not the pure bloods. Can't have them slumming it old boy.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Baron99   771 #329 Posted September 22, 2019 (edited) Radiohead's Thom (Pay attention when I preach, do as I say, not as I do) Yorke.  https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/22/entertainment/thom-yorke-desert-island-discs-intl-scli/index.html  Another wealthy, proselytising hypocrite.  Edited September 22, 2019 by Baron99 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
rogets   132 #330 Posted September 23, 2019 (edited) We went abroad in May and September and the numbers in Spain are unsustainable  The holiday industry has a lot to answer for and I think its high time something was done to stop people going abroad  We paid £250 to a Climate Offset scheme hence our holiday abroad was fine. Edited September 23, 2019 by rogets Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Halibut   12 #331 Posted September 23, 2019 1 hour ago, rogets said: We went abroad in May and September and the numbers in Spain are unsustainable  The holiday industry has a lot to answer for and I think its high time something was done to stop people going abroad  We paid £250 to a Climate Offset scheme hence our holiday abroad was fine. Three and a half out of ten. Must try harder. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Baron99   771 #332 Posted February 17, 2020 (edited) A report by Imperial College London for Drax Electric Insights states that the UK has been decarbonising at a faster rate than anywhere else in the world in the past decade.  Our carbon emissions have fallen from 161 million metric tonnes in 2010 to 54 million tonnes in 2019, as we've moved away from coal & natural gas to renewables.  Demand has also fallen by 13%, even though the UK population increases by 7% & GDP rose by a quarter.   There's been a big jump in generating power via sustainable bio-mass, while wind power was responsible for delivering a quarter of the reduction in carbon emissions.  Good response from the UK but we can still do better. Time to start not only pointing the finger at the main pollutanters of the world, including some of those in Europe but maybe also exporting, (& earning a few quid), some of the expertise we have learnt over the past decade? Edited February 17, 2020 by Baron99 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
El Cid   194 #333 Posted February 17, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Baron99 said: Good response from the UK but we can still do better. Time to start not only pointing the finger at the main pollutanters of the world, including some of those in Europe but maybe also exporting, (& earning a few quid), some of the expertise we have learnt over the past decade? The government says greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 42% since 1990. But Greta Thunberg told MPs in Westminster that the true reduction was more like 10%.  Who would you believe?  Britain has contributed to the global climate emergency by outsourcing its carbon emissions to developing nations, according to official figures, despite managing to weaken the domestic link between fossil fuels and economic growth. The Office for National Statistics said the UK had become the biggest net importer of carbon dioxide emissions per capita in the G7 group of wealthy nations – outstripping the US and Japan – as a result of buying goods manufactured abroad.  https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/21/britain-is-g7s-biggest-net-importer-of-co2-emissions-per-capita-says-ons Edited February 17, 2020 by El Cid Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Pettytom   1 #334 Posted February 17, 2020 36 minutes ago, El Cid said: The government says greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 42% since 1990. But Greta Thunberg told MPs in Westminster that the true reduction was more like 10%.  Who would you believe?   Well, one is a self-publicising know it all with a child-like grasp of climate change.  The other is Greta Thunberg. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Bargepole23 Â Â 337 #335 Posted February 17, 2020 25 minutes ago, Pettytom said: Well, one is a self-publicising know it all with a child-like grasp of climate change. Â The other is Greta Thunberg. Well done sir, or madam. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Baron99   771 #336 Posted February 17, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, El Cid said: The government says greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 42% since 1990. But Greta Thunberg told MPs in Westminster that the true reduction was more like 10%.  Who would you believe?  Britain has contributed to the global climate emergency by outsourcing its carbon emissions to developing nations, according to official figures, despite managing to weaken the domestic link between fossil fuels and economic growth. The Office for National Statistics said the UK had become the biggest net importer of carbon dioxide emissions per capita in the G7 group of wealthy nations – outstripping the US and Japan – as a result of buying goods manufactured abroad.  https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/21/britain-is-g7s-biggest-net-importer-of-co2-emissions-per-capita-says-ons Who would I believe?  A report by Imperial College London for Drax Electric Insights.  Reading the Guardian link, "The ONS warned that Britain had increased its net imports of CO2 emissions per capita from 1.7 tonnes in 1992 to 5.1 tonnes in 2007", although the report is dated 20/10/2019? So the the earliest figures are now clearly out of date, as highlighted later in the piece, the UK has clearly turned things around in the last decade & the later figures are roughly in line with the data from Imperial College London but obviously the data in the piece from the Guardian, still carries their, to be expected, anti-Govt bias. Edited February 17, 2020 by Baron99 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...