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Some lovely green links for you today: Eco-Libya? at the Intelligent Traveller Coca Cola: The Recycled Thing at psfk Most Americans get 30% of daily calories from meat, dairy and poultry that, on average, contributes more than 3,275 lbs of… Read More »EcoLinking – 26 October 2007
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It’s time for another round of EcoLinking. Here are some recent blog posts that I found interesting. “In order to stay alive, each of us needs 10 trees… so you don’t suffocate in your own carbon dioxide” – 2004 Nobel… Read More »EcoLinking – 12 October 2007
This Saturday, you don’t have to do what your telly tells you to. Stay at home, or go for a walk in the park. Better still, recycle something. Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on… Read More »Mindless consumerism
This is a guest post by Jeremy Walters of GoCarbonFree.com
Sir John Houghton CBE FRS was co-chairman of the Scientific Assessment for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1988-2002. He was previously chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (’92-’98), chief executive of the Met Office (’83-’91) and Professor of Atmospheric Physics, Oxford (’76-83). Sir John is still very much involved in helping world governments and organisations tackle climate change.
In his first interview, Sir John talked about climate change and the world situation as it currently stands. In part two of his interview, Sir John outlines how the wider issue is not just climate change but about ‘having a sustainable future’………
GoCarbonFree: What are your views on carbon trading?
Sir John Houghton: Carbon trading is a good way of trying to reduce emissions, but these things sometimes aren’t quite what they seem. For example, the European Trading System is not reducing carbon to the extent it needs to because the carbon allocations are far too great in the first place. People are also making a lot of money off the back of it and have got away with all sorts of things! The system has to improve and must become immune to exploitation. However, maybe that was the way it had to start…….
Read More »EcoSpeak: Part 2 of an interview with climate scientist Sir John Houghton
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Don’t miss out on these great blog posts. Three letters we can write to help save the planet at Lighter Footstep. Green Options asks whether global warming inaction is more costly than action? Lifehack explains how to avoid being enslaved… Read More »EcoLinking – 26 September 2007
This is a guest post by Jeremy Walters of GoCarbonFree.com
Sir John Houghton CBE FRS was co-chairman of the Scientific Assessment for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1988-2002. He was previously chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (’92-’98), chief executive of the Met Office (’83-’91) and Professor of Atmospheric Physics, Oxford (’76-83).
Still very much involved in helping world governments and organisations tackle climate change, Sir John agreed to meet GoCarbonFree at his home on the fringes of the Snowdonia National Park, Wales.
GoCarbonFree: Thank you very much Sir John for allowing us to interview you today. My first question is to ask you, as a weather scientist, what first alerted you to global warming? After all, the weather has always been unpredictable so what made you think ‘there is something different happening here’?
Read More »EcoSpeak: An interview with ex-IPCC co-chairman Sir John Houghton