Going Green

In general, there is no significant impact of climate change on earthquakes that has been identified by scientists. However, they are not disregarding the possibility of a connection. As the Earth's average temperature increases, the melting of massive ice sheets leads to the transfer of billions of tons of water from land to the ocean, causing land masses to rise. This global change could re...

Astroturfing is a deceptive practice of creating the appearance of a groundswell of support for a particular agenda by using fake or paid individuals to post positive comments, reviews, or testimonials in a coordinated manner. The aim is to manipulate public opinion by giving the impression that a large number of people hold a particular view when in reality, they are part of a coordinated effort...

We are now another year (to 2030) closer to when petrol and diesel cars will stop being made in the UK perhaps now is the right time to buy an electric car? The debate over whether it is the right time to buy an electric car has been ongoing for a few years now. On one hand, electric cars offer a number of benefits over traditional gasoline-powered cars, including lower operating costs, zero emiss...

One of the topics taught in GCSE chemistry is looking at the Earth's resources and looking in particular when metals are likely to run out the report they looked at was done in 2011 and suggested that current production levels when it was likely metals would run out. We thought it would be interesting to have a look 10 years on at how much of these metals are left now. So are we running out o...

Ski resorts in the Alps are being forced to shut down due to a lack of snow because Europe there has no snowfall in the new year. Temperatures for January have reached an all-time high in a number of nations across Europe breaking record minimum winter temperatures in eight countries - and regional records in another three. Warsaw, Poland, saw 18.9C (66F) on Sunday while Bilbao, Spain, was 25.1C -...

With the new year in sight, we thought it is good to go back over the course of the year and look at all the climate stories that happened. A lot has happened over the last year with 2022 beating several records. it has provisionally been the -on average- hottest year to date and as well as a decade of increasingly bad weather

A white Christmas is a Christmas celebration that is characterized by the presence of snow on the ground. An "official" white Christmas is defined by the Met Office as "one snowflake to be observed falling in the 24 hours of 25 December somewhere in the UK", but formerly the snow had to be observed at the Met Office building in London. However, Climate change has brought higher...

Fusion power has the potential to be a major source of clean, safe, and abundant energy in the future. A new break though has been discovered by a team in America, the team managed to get more energy out from the enormous amount of energy that was required to start the fusion reaction. Fusion occurs when atomic nuclei combine to form a heavier nucleus, releasing a large amount of energy in the pro...

This year Earthshot prize took place at Boston, USA. The Earthshot Prize was designed to find and grow the solutions that will repair our planet this decade. Each Winner of the 5 categories will get £1 million to regenerate the place we all call home in the next ten years. 

Black Friday is a day of consumerism so why dont we make it green. We all know that the "throwaway culture" of Black Friday "is bad for the environment" and people should instead consider recycled products and think what they can do for the environment but is it really the consumers that are bad or is it the producers not making things green for the sake of profits

we should be updating the old rhyme Plant a tree in '73; plant one more in '74 to "plant a tree in '23; plant one more in '24 " National Tree Week starts Saturday the 27th which marks the annual winter tree planting season and welsh government is offering every household  a free tree to collect from over 50 locations in Wales. So what's the point of why everyone...

This year's COP has been about the Economic Impact  of Climate Change on the world Economies we thought we go through some of the Economic challenges that countries are facing. Stunning revelations came out about how the host of COP 27, Egypt are Burning more Coal so that they can sell there Gas Imports to Europe for a profit,  Short term Economic Gains have apparently out weighted the climat...

With COP 27 happening this week, we thought we should give a round up of what has happened. COP 27 is taking place at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in his opening speech "We are on the highway to climate hell, with our foot still on the accelerator" He also proposed Debt-for-losses swap as a way for developing countries to recover from climate disaste...

This week Ofgem made a statement about how the UK could potentially run out of gas. Creating a  shortage, and that in a emergency there could be a rolling power cut if the UK due to lack gas supplies had to turn off gas turbines that produce electricity, if we get a cold and server winter. The last time this happened was in the 1973 when the Gas supplies switched off for hours due to gas rationing...

Recently the UK Government halted the moratorium on Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. leading to questions To Frack or not to Frack. Fracking is a technique for recovering gas and oil from shale rock. It involves drilling into the earth and directing a high-pressure mixture of water, sand and chemicals at a rock layer in order to release the gas inside. The injection of fluid at high pressure int...

With the 2022 UN general assembly taking place this week, we thought it would be good to go through the Five burning climate issues that was identified by the Secretary-general António  Guterres These five burning climate issues are; 5. Curbing windfall profits from fossil fuel companies 4. Championing more clean energy and the green transition 3. Funding for the world’s most climate-vulnerable co...

With the Death of late Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III is the new king of Great Britain and northern Ireland. The Late Queen left a quite a Green Legacy, She was quite frugal and kept a simple diet of local produce and meat that had low food miles. Last year, she expressed her irritation with climate change inaction ahead of the Cop26 conference. unlike the late Queen,  King Charles III, As P...

We would like to Congratulate @GrahamStuartMP who has been appointed Minister for Climate In Liz Truss's New Government, But the same old Climate challenges and targets still remain.   So we thought about going through what he should be focusing on and what his priorities should be for the next few years. The list is quite a long one, but a lot of things are already set in motion, such as 7,0...

Last Friday Ofgem (the UK energy regulator) Announced the increase the energy price cap of both Gas and Electricity  from 7p to 15p and  28p to 52p  respectfully on a Standard variable tariff and the Daily standing charges of both types of energy are increasing by 1p This is the MAXIMUM an Energy company can charge on a Standard variable tariff. But the energy price cap for other tariff are being...

A carbon offset broadly refers to a reduction in Greenhouse Gas emissions – or an increase in carbon storage (e.g., through land restoration or the planting of trees) – that is used to compensate for emissions that occur elsewhere. For a Carbon offset to work, we first need to measure and establish how much greenhouse gas emissions that you emit personally or on a organisational level. Once steps...

Since Water is 2/3 of our planet, its hard to imagine that we could ever run out however only 3% of that water is fresh meaning vast majority of it is inaccessible for human use. So are we going to run out of water?   As a result, water scarcity is a pressing and important issue for much of the global population and with all the droughts that are happening around the world, they're reducing t...

As the next wave of heat is hitting Europe, Drought are being declared all over and we are feeling the impact , directly through TUB's (AKA hosepipe bans) or indirectly like potential winter food shortages To understand how a drought can cause food shortages we need to an analogy as falling row of dominoes. Now imagine if the first domino might be farmers’ corn crops dying. The second domino...

A new report from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has sent press in panic with doom and gloom forecasts. the report talks about the “four horsemen” of climate change with new names such as famine and undernutrition, extreme weather events, conflict, and vector-borne diseases. According to the international team of researchers, they propose need for a new research agenda...

Over the course of this week, water companies published their drought plans in an effort to say that  "water is worth saving" but that there is no need to panic over water scarcity. because most companies need to do this year since its required by law every five years to produce and publish a drought plan, and with the ongoing warm weather in much of the country follows the driest winter...

So we survived the heatwave. For the first time ever the UK managed above 40°C in many parts, and we experience many  tropical nights (nights that are above 20°C) but Homes in UK not designed for the heat. So what action can be taken, What can be done about new homes being built We had wildfires burning out homes. 60 properties damaged in the UK with 41of those properties destroyed in fires in Lon...