UK warned against watering down carbon targets

UK warned against watering down carbon reduction targets 

An influential group of MPs has weighed into the simmering row over the UK's carbon budgets, warning that the carbon reduction targets for 2022 will be missed because of poor government policy on energy and the environment.

 Carbon budgets have become a key political battleground as George Osborne has promised that the UK will not lead on climate action because the UK should not price itself out of international energy markets by placing heavy environmental burden on suppliers.

 Joan Walley, chair of the environmental audit committee, said: "Emissions are currently not falling fast enough to prevent a dangerous destabilization of the global climate in the coming decades.

But most Tories want to ignore the committee and choose looser carbon targets. The row could take months to resolve, and is likely to prove unsettling for green investors and businesses who want a clear view on the policy.

 The key reasons the 2022 targets would not be met were the failure to insulate houses and reduce the amount of gaseous carbon which are caused by transport and heat production, the report found.

St Jude's storm

St Jude's storm whips across northern Europe

 

The St Jude's storm that battered southern Britain on Monday morning has hit northern Europe .Record gusts of 119mph were measured in the North Sea. In Germany, two people died when their car was crushed by a falling tree, and in western France, at Belle-Ile in Brittany a woman was swept into the sea from a cliff.

Power cuts hit 42,000 homes in northern France, and the motorways across Belgium have been closed.Many trains were cancelled in and around London also in north-western Germany.

Buenos Aires is switching around street lamps to LED technology

Buenos Aires in Argentina is the second biggest city in South-America, with about 13 million people. To light up the city at night requires over 125,000 street lamps. So that must equal a lot of energy just to power them

After a public bidding process, Philips has been selected to replace most of  the city's streetlamps with new LED models. These LED streetlights are expected to reduce energy use by half for the city, which in turn will means a significant reduction in CO2 production and also reducing the amount of money spent making the energy



Dino and bees were decimated at Dino impact

Scientists say there was a  extinction of bees 66 million years ago at the same time as the event that killed off the dinosaurs.But the extinction event was very selective, affecting some groups more than others.

 The researchers chose to study bees of the subfamily known as Xylocopinae,which included the carpenter bees. This was because the evolutionary history of this group could be traced back to the Cretaceous Period.

 "Understanding extinctions and the effects of declines in the past can help us understand the pollinator decline and the global crisis in pollinators today," Dr Rehan explained.

Vegetarian piranha among 400 new Amazon species

Four years of scientific expeditions have found previously unknown animals and plants in world's largest tropical rainforest but until nowa vegetarian piranha and a flame-patterned lizard are among more than 400 new species of animals and plants that have been discovered in the past four years in the Amazon rainforest, conservationists say.

All new animals to science includes 258 plants, 84 fish, 58 amphibians, 22 reptiles, 18 birds and one mammal.  This tally does not include discoveries of insects.Some species may be lost just as they have been discovered, scientists warned. The thimble frog has been given a Latin name (Allobates amissibilis) meaning "that may be lost",

climate chief's tears

Costa Rica-born Christiana Figueres has been the Executive Secretary of the United Nations  Convention on Climate Change or the last three years. The head of the UN body tasked with delivering a global climate treaty broke down in tears at a meeting in London as she spoke about the impact of global warming for the coming generations.

Many people believe that what we are doing to the environment is completely unfair and immoral for future generations and our children.The children will have to deal with terrible consequences of our attitude to the environment.  

Stop badger cull immediately

Stop badger cull immediately

The public disagreement over the badger cull taking place in Gloucester should be stopped immediately, says the lead scientist on the board of Natural England (NE), the organisation charged with making the decision

 NE, the nation's official protector of nature, will rule Monday on whether the night-time badger shoots can be significantly extended. Owen Paterson, and the National Farmers' Union, who argue that killing badgers to curb tuberculosis in cattle is scientifically justified and necessary.

The badger cull is also being jeopardised by a legal threat launched on Saturday.

MacDonald, a professor at Oxford University, said: "My personal opinion as a biologist is not to continue the cull. Many farmers believe that killing badgers to curb tuberculosis in cattle is scientifically justified and necessary but what do you think?

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Pollution causes cancer

                                                 Air Pollution causes cancer
                                                         

Pollution in the air that we breathe is the leading environmental cause of cancer according to the world health organization also known as WHO

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a part of the WHO, has now classed air pollution in the same category as tobacco smoke, UV radiation and plutonium.
                                                                                                                           
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This blog will bring you everything that is going on in our environment. The latest news,tips how to reuse and be Eco-friendly. We will be highlighting important issues facing our environment. There also fun projects to help you reuse things. Also every few days we will have polls on pros and cons on the environment such topics will include pesticides , are they a good thing?

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Hi, my name is Santiago Olusanya. I absolutely love everything about the environment and I want everyone to be green and see the brilliant beauty of the planet earth.
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