The chances are that your garden has been left unattended over the chilly winter. My own garden hasn’t had much attention since late November/early December when Christmas was looming large and so there were plenty of other distractions. The wet, snowy winter that set in at the beginning of the new year has slowed down [...]
Just found this amazing image of the UK blanketed in frost and snow.
We don’t get this kind of weather that often in the UK (I’ve heard 1963 and 1982 mentioned) so it is a bit of a novelty. It’s obviously a novelty my local council who seem to have on gritting lorry zooming around ineffectually [...]
I’m browsing the Earth Observatory pages at NASA, sparked off by another Twitter user.
I thought this image of a fuel fire in Puerto Rico which happened in October 2009 was interesting. It shows the area affected by the incident which in the picture is about 140km long by 15km wide.
Fire at Fuel Storage Facility in [...]
Was the trip to Copenhagen worthwhile for all the nations that took part?
Well, yes it was. Kyoto was a beginning, a start on the path towards working out some solutions to the problems caused by man made pollution. In Copenhagen the aim was to go further and include everybody in the collective responsibility for dealing [...]
OK, maybe ‘gripped’ is a bit strong but I was glad of my scarf and gloves this morning when I dropped the kids at school. The ponds were frozen in the local park and the water fowl were seen to be skating around.
I a temperate climate such as in the UK we get used to [...]
Check out this helpful online article by the New Scientist which cleanly debunks the top 50 of 100 ‘reasons’ why ‘Global Warming is natural’ published in the Daily Express recently. As a casual reader it can be very difficult to make up your mind what to think about the climate debate. Newspapers always set themselves [...]
Courtesy of the BBC is a potted history of climate change. Naturally this is the anthropogenic timeline and there is far more to the subject, for this it is important to look at the science of the subject.
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | A brief history of climate change.
Between 7th and 18th December 2009 delegations from 192 countries who are party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be gathering to further the discussion and initiatives first laid out in the Kyoto Protocol. The purpose of the meeting is to make a new treaty on climate change, it is [...]