George Monbiot discusses in his article “Giving Up On Two Degrees” how the governments of the western world are manipulating the figures, so that they appear to be meeting their greenhouse gas emission targets. But not that they are trying to meet the wrong targets.
For those of us who live in this country, this is [...]
Posted at 22:19 on Wednesday 2nd May 2007 in Politics tagged climate change, environmental, Politics, Scottish, with no comments.
Hopefully Richard Branson’s $25m climate challenge will do for carbon sequestration what the Ansari X Prize has done for private spaceflight.
Millions of pounds are on offer for the person who comes up with the best way of removing significant amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Whether we can successfully engineer our way out of [...]
Posted at 17:36 on Sunday 11th February 2007 in Engineering, Science tagged climate change, energy, Engineering, environmental, Science, technology, transport, UK, with no comments.
Is this the future of transport? Engineers in Paderborn, Germany are working on an automated transport system, that could use existing rail networks (with some modifications) to run individual ‘Railcabs’ that take you to your destination without having to change trains. Likened to the internet, with great numbers of these vehicles moving autonomously along the [...]
Posted at 12:59 on Sunday 14th January 2007 in Engineering tagged Engineering, environmental, Europe, future, transport, with no comments.
Coal Mining Causing Earthquakes
The most damaging earthquake in Australia’s history was caused by humans, new research says. The magnitude-5.6 quake that struck Newcastle, in New South Wales, on December 28, 1989, killed 13 people, injured 160, and caused 3.5 billion U.S. dollars worth of damage. [National Geographic]
The article goes on to talk about carbon sequestration [...]
Posted at 13:05 on Sunday 7th January 2007 in Engineering, Politics, Science tagged climate change, construction, Engineering, environmental, future, landfill, natural-disaster, news, Politics, recycling, UK, with no comments.
After the plans were unveiled for the Edinburgh Airport Rail link the Scottish Parliament has now given the go ahead for the Glasgow rail link.
So much for a sustainable transport plan then.
“_Who cares about the potential for global climate change, as long as we can have easy access to our cheap flights!_”
Posted at 22:19 on Wednesday 29th November 2006 in Blog tagged climate change, construction, Edinburgh, Engineering, environmental, future, Glasgow, Politics, with no comments.