12:31 | Global Warming and Climate Change have two well known culprits : Energy and Transport. But there are two more co-conspirators contributing catastrophically to the crisis. Those partners are Land Use and Intensive Livestock Farming.
15:37 | We look at a new report just out from the International Renewable Energy Agency, which provides a stark assessment of what’s required.
11:43 | By the time the police began to clear the Pink Boat from Oxford Circus, the Extinction Rebels had clearly become quite emotionally attached to it and were reluctant to give it up without a (non-violent) struggle.
15:37 | Extinction Rebellion were expected to have been removed from the streets of London well before Good Friday. But their peaceful protest completely wrong footed the authorities and they still held the same key areas on 19th April 2019.
10:10 | Extinction Rebellion were still holding strong in London on Wednesday 17th April 2019. In the second of four video diaries I go out again to meet some of the protestors and gauge local reaction.
18:06 | Extinction Rebellion put their plan to occupy London into action on Monday 15th April 2019. This is the first of four video diaries of my travels around the various occupied sites during the week to track progress of the protest.
12:18 | People are now taking more and more direct action to start forcing the issue with the sort of urgency that is so desperately required.
17:54 | A Blue Ocean Event, or Ice-Free Arctic, is the source of almost fever pitch speculation in the climate science world.
13:31 | The Great Ocean Conveyor, The Thermohaline Circulation, The Gulf Stream, AMOC… all terms we hear quite a lot these days.
15:30 | Have we neglected to consider how we will deal with millions of panels and turbines when they come to the end of their useful lives?
12:05 | The Greenland Ice Sheet has been on a rapid downward spiral for at least a couple of decades, but in 2018 it seemed to begin recovering. This week we look at what happened and whether or not this is good news for the future.
16:40 | NOAA released their 2018 Arctic Report Card back in December with some fairly stark warnings about the status of that region.
13:22 | Climate and Environmental Crisis. That’s the message of a new report published this week by the Institute of Public Policy Research in the UK.
11:26 | Lab Grown Meat. Cultured meat. Clean meat. Call it what you will. It’s arrived and it’ll be on a table near you this year.
13:31 | Graphene. The miracle material. Much has been expected but not much delivered. Now, though, Graphene is showing some clear advantages and benefits to climate mitigation technology.
9:07 | The strong indications are that, ironically, it’s the warming of the planet that’s causing this phenomenon to impact on populated areas of the Northern Hemisphere in more and more extreme ways.
12:21 | BECCS, or Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage, is a technology that the IPCC has factored into their climate modelling.
13:40 | Capturing the excess CO2 from our atmosphere will be absolutely critical to our ability to meet the goals of the Paris agreement, but there’ll always be someone who spots an opportunity to make a profit along the way!
14:47 | Despite a dramatic reduction in fertility rates since 1950, our global population continues to rise.
9:51 | Our oceans hold vast quantities of thermal and kinetic energy, thousands of times more than our entire civilisation requires for our current level of population.
13:46 | The National Climate Assessment summarizes the impacts of climate change on the United States, now and in the future.
11:44 | In the final part of our conversation with Peter Wadhams we talk about one of the most destructive outcomes of climate change – global sea level rises. We also look at the Camp Fire of California.
10:22 | Professor Wadhams explains the thermohaline circulation, sometimes called The Ocean Conveyor Belt, and why it’s slow down means big trouble for many areas of the globe.
8:51 | Peter Wadhams explains the risks posed by huge methane emissions that are being caused by arctic ice loss, and we discuss the difficulties and frustrations faced by scientists trying to communicate climate issues to a wider public.
11:05 | Peter Wadhams’ book, A Farewell to Ice, outlines in exquisite detail the changes in the arctic over the last four decades and the threats that these changes pose to our climate.
12:00 | Hydrogen fuel cells may appear to be another of these new green technologies but in fact they’ve been around for well over a century. So why aren’t all our vehicles already powered by Hydrogen?
13:35 | With some projections suggesting renewable energy and electric vehicles may lose the fossil fuel industry as much as $21 TRILLION by 2040, the battle for the hearts and minds of millions of drivers has never been more critical.
11:41 | Solar Power grabs all the headlines but wind power is gaining traction as new technologies and materials allow machines of truly gargantuan proportions to be built out in our oceans.
11:39 | We take a look at the basic scientific theory behind this phenomenon and look ahead to what it could mean for our oceans and food chain.
13:55 | The earth’s ecosystems are constantly and relentlessly shifting as a result of the carbon that the human species spews out every year. One of the most influential and potentially catastrophic of these systems is the sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean.
11:21 | Palm oil, rainforests and Orang-utans – we’ve all read the news stories. But is the situation improving or is it business as usual in the plantations?
12:49 | Tar sands, AKA Oil Sands, extraction and processing releases 3 times as much Carbon Dioxide as traditional crude oil extraction.
9:50 | Global banking finance for extreme fossil fuels like Tar Sands took a big dip as a result of the Paris Climate agreement in 2015, but since the start of 2017 it’s been rising quickly again.
12:30 | Divestment out of Fossil Fuels is gaining momentum. Climate Change is an accepted fact but CO2 emissions are increasing each year. How can we accelerate the move away from fossil fuels? Divestment is the key.
12:55 | Roof top solar power installations are becoming a truly viable option for domestic households as prices tumble. Here’s a step by step guide to how to get started and a bit of detail about the system I chose for my own home.
13:34 | Geoengineering has really split the scientific community. Some believe we’ll be meddling even more with the balance of our biosphere without really understanding the consequences. Others believe we’ve got nothing to lose.