Doongrading
So, the government have downgraded the importance of the cabinet committee for climate change. While promoting helping Africa out of poverty. All well and er ... fine .. or ... something. Except, ofcourse, that Africa is a place where climate change is predicted to create havoc and therefore will cause more poverty.
1+1=3 or something.
New Scientist were busy trying to explain that there's more to climate change than just carbon emissions. That there's a sea of chemicals floating around up there contributing to the changes that are enveloping the planet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_brown_cloud
And that all the components needed to be dealt with. There are, infact, mini smogs hovering all over the planet causing local problems.
"The world has started to take notice of its carbon footprints and with good reason. Yet in the rush to cut carbon dioxide emissions it is all too easy to forget about other pollutants whose contrinution to global warming is just as worrying. Ozone smogs, acid rain and smoke were all targeted by environmentalists in the 1980s and 1990s for the local harm that they do. What is now becoming clear is that failure to tackle them could also upset the best laid carbon schemes.
The good news is that because of the local effects of brown smogs some governments are taking notice of the effects and trying to tackle them.
As the magazine says it's a timely warning to governments not to wait for catastrophes on this scale before taking action on all aspects of climate change.
1+1=3 or something.
New Scientist were busy trying to explain that there's more to climate change than just carbon emissions. That there's a sea of chemicals floating around up there contributing to the changes that are enveloping the planet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_brown_cloud
And that all the components needed to be dealt with. There are, infact, mini smogs hovering all over the planet causing local problems.
"The world has started to take notice of its carbon footprints and with good reason. Yet in the rush to cut carbon dioxide emissions it is all too easy to forget about other pollutants whose contrinution to global warming is just as worrying. Ozone smogs, acid rain and smoke were all targeted by environmentalists in the 1980s and 1990s for the local harm that they do. What is now becoming clear is that failure to tackle them could also upset the best laid carbon schemes.
The good news is that because of the local effects of brown smogs some governments are taking notice of the effects and trying to tackle them.
As the magazine says it's a timely warning to governments not to wait for catastrophes on this scale before taking action on all aspects of climate change.
posted by Zeb at 10:01 AM
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