Conceptric

The archives for climate change

  1. A lesson in humility

    The huge cloud of volcanic ash that’s sweeping over Europe from Iceland has had a devastating effect on air travel. Personally when I saw the story on the news last night it struck me as wonderful. It’s true that I’m a little strange, but it really is an event full of wonder.

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  2. A new year and a new approach

    Further to my shock revelation about the Government and climate change — OK I realise it’s been obvious all along — I’ve come up with another idea to focus our personal efforts.

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  3. Government can’t provide the solution

    I’m not normally given to naivety and unrealistic bouts of optimism, but last week I discovered to my surprise that I genuinely expected some positive agreement on climate change from the Copenhagen summit. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not one of those campaigners on the TV, or that pour forth tweets, and I haven’t been glued to the news from Denmark, but at the end of the conference I have to admit to feeling a little deflated.

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  4. Climate change: what’s the argument about?

    Very little in science and engineering is as precise as we’d like to believe, and climate change is no exception. What’s more, we have no right to expect that it’ll become more clear cut at any point in the near future, so we have to make our decisions based on what’s on offer now.

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  5. Web hosting in the UK: green and cost effective

    A couple of months ago I came to the decision that my fragmented approach to web hosting needed a little reorganisation. I like to use UK hosts and I’m passionate about minimise my carbon footprint. On this basis Brightbox and Memset are both good choices, but with new projects on the horizon, the lure of cheaper US hosting is hard to resist. Can UK providers do even better?

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  6. Carbon as a Global asset class

    Growth in both the volume and stability of carbon as a traded asset class is essential to tackling climate change and poverty, but can a successful global system be implemented in time?

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  7. The pitfalls of carbon offsetting

    I do my best to reduce my carbon footprint through changes to my lifestyle, but there’s only so far I can go. So I’ve been reviewing personal carbon offsetting schemes to see if they can take me closer to carbon neutrality.

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  8. Global Warming: a matter of resolution

    Yesterday I read a few comments about global temperatures dropping since 2000, could it be true? Is Global Warming a false alarm? Do you know what global average temperature represents, or what the overall trend really looks like? It occurred to me that I didn’t, so I decided to take a look.

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