Articles related to: global warming
51: Is Global Warming Inevitable?
Sometimes we need to think the unthinkable, particularly when dealing with a problem as dangerous as climate change - there is no room for dogma when considering the future habitability of our planet...
52: What Is A Carbon Credit?
Quite simply, you pay money to account for each tonne of carbon dioxide; or one of the other 5 common environmental pollutants that you create. 'You' can refer to individuals, corporations or politica..
53: Is Carbon Trading Contrary To Social Justice?
You can't trade in something unless you own it. When governments and companies "trade" in carbon, they establish de facto property rights over the atmosphere; a commonly held global commons. At no poi..
54: Turned Off By Carbon Offsets
I've heard just about every argument under the sun when discussing the greenhouse gas offsets model with friends and colleagues. After hearing these arguments for the first time, I often wondered whet..
55: Shoud We Offset Our Residual Carbon Emissions?
Carbon offsetting provokes a powerful emotional response in some people. They just don't like the idea that you can pay someone else to mop up your carbon emissions. It smacks of indulgence and cheati..
56: Is Additionality Essential For The Credibility Of Offsetting?
One of the biggest problems with offsetting is ensuring 'additionality' - proving that the offsets that you are buying in order to counterbalance your carbon emissions would not have happened without ..
57: Why Offset With Trees?
If climate change is primarily the result of burning fossil fuels isn't offsetting with trees simply a distraction? Shouldn't we focus on renewable energy projects that can replace the use of fossil f..
58: Recycling As A Form Of Offsetting
Every Thursday night, like every other householder in our neighborhood, I collect our waste paper, cans, bottles and plastic and put them out on the street outside our house. On Friday morning a local..
59: How Permanent Are Carbon Offsets?
Something that worries many people about offsetting emissions with trees is how can you guarantee that they will last long enough? Trees take time to absorb carbon, extracting it slowly from the atmos..
60: Why Some Carbon Offsets Are Better Than Others
As with any purchase, buyers need to choose their offsets carefully, particularly as the voluntary offset market is largely unregulated. One issue to consider is the offset project type. For example, ..
61: The Power of Methane Gas
The experience of many countries with implementing methane emissions reducing technologies and practices have shown that reducing this potent greenhouse gas makes both environmental and economic sense..
62: Advantages and Disadvantages of Wind Power
Wind power, or wind energy, is a renewable resource; it is from the sun. The advantages of wind power are many, including practical, environmental as well as economic. There are also disadvantages to ..
63: Climate Top Tips - At Home and At Work
Tips for reducing your CO2 emissions fall into a number of categories; this article focuses on what you can do at home and in the workplace to reduce your carbon footprint.At homeSimple measures could..
64: Climate Top Tips - Surface Transport and Aviation
Tips for reducing your CO2 emissions fall into a number of categories, with surface transport (driving) and aviation at the top of most lists.Surface transport is responsible for about a quarter of ou..
65: Tree Planting - Help or Hindrance?
Carbon Offsetting involves paying an organisation to neutralise the climate impact of your own activities, thereby making those activities "carbon neutral" or "climate neutral". Some offset schemes fo..
66: How to Travel Carbon Light - 3 Steps to Lowering Your Travel Carbon Emissions
We should all be concerned with Global Warming and each do what we can to reduce the amount of CO2 released into our atmosphere. There are three steps you can use to lower your impact while traveling;..
67: Dummies Guide To Global Warming
We have all heard the comments that changes in temperature could lead to drought, more disease and rising sea levels a million times.We have also heard the warnings of global warming for almost a dec..
68: Get the Facts About Global Warming, So That You Can Make an Educated Decision and Take Action
Global warming and the climate change is something we all contribute to in a negative way but can all begin to contribute to in a positive way. An understanding of what global warming is and why it is..
69: Deforestation Affects Humanity in Many Different Ways
While most people know how to live life in a comfortable way, it is often not fully understood that the modern westernized lifestyles are not helping the planet’s ecology. These lifestyles are damag..
70: Global Warming Gives a Serious Warning
Global warming and climate change are already upon us. Global warming is a large issue with intensely intimate consequences at the personal and community level. What we need to recognize is that choic..
71: Towards 2025 – With Fewer Glaciers and Less Arctic Ice
Many of the ice structures such as glaciers, ice in mountain areas, and the Arctic icecap are melting. Most of those structures will no longer be in existence within the next twenty years. Much of the..
72: After 2025 - What Will Happen When Most Ice Masses Have Disappeared?
Within the next twenty years almost all of the current ice structure will have melted, however, at present this does not concern most of the world’s population. While it is true that we can liv..
73: Will Your Future Be As Bright As You Expect It To Be?
From a spiritual perspective, planetary changes which will have an impact on many are imminent because of the poor ecological state of the planet. Most people expect change to happen, perhaps in their..
74: How to Offset the Cost of Solar Panels
Public concern about global warming and rising energy costs has led to an increased interest in clean, renewable energy. Solar energy is a particularly attractive alternative to petroleum dependence...
75: Global Warming - 10 Simple Ways To Lower Your Carbon Emissions
Today the global warming situation has been getting a ton of media coverage. Many scientists from all over the world have agreed that the planet has been getting warmer due to many environmental facto..
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