Tyndall Centre Manchester creates plans for zero carbon concerts
Tyndall Centre Manchester scientists are creating a plan for concerts and tours to have zero emissions, or as close to zero as possible.
Category: Climate
Stories about climate change, its impacts, and just and equitable solutions for the planet.
Climategate: online fake news is not new
Emails were stolen from UEA’s Climatic Research Unit and cherry picked by climate deniers to accuse climate scientists of falsifying data.
Net Zero in the UK: 2025 or 2050?
Climate Scientist and ex-Director of the Tyndall Centre Professor Corinne Le Queré together with Philosopher Professor Rupert Read, a founder of the Greenhouse Think Tank and more recently Extinction Rebellion spokesperson, both of UEA, discussed with a University and public audience when Net Zero should be achieved.
To fly or not to fly? The problem with individual climate solutions
These kinds of “climate solutions” fail to recognise that the cost of burdening individuals to solve climate change is further marginalising those already in the margins when, as we all know, what we need to talk about are emissions from the dirty industries like fossil fuel and cement, as well as emissions from countries.
Public opinion: “Climate emergency” neither effective nor sustainable
The term “climate emergency” may not be as effective protesters think, say members of a climate attentive public who joined with Tyndall Centre’s researchers for round table discussions.
China’s new homes are the biggest chunk of the nation’s cement CO2
Building new homes is the biggest chunk of cement-related carbon emissions in China
Charcoal produced by wildfires can help mitigate climate change
Charcoal created by fires known as pyrogenic carbon could effectively ‘lock away’ a considerable amount of carbon for years to come.
Summer Heat and Flooding: What Norwich can learn from Manila
The United Kingdom has been experiencing hot weather the last few days, with temperatures reaching up to 38.1C in Cambridgeshire and and 36.25C in Norfolk on Thursday. Afterwards, downpours that caused flooding in North England, including Manchester and Warrington.
