Posts Tagged ‘climate change’

Hello! I am an illustration student currently finishing a foundation course and I need your help. I am designing a range of t-shirts to raise awareness of environmental issues and need some help thinking of catchy slogans. I would appreciate any ideas you can give me. Think ‘don’t panic, I’m organic’. Anything up to 30 words about recyling, climate change etc. If I use your slogan I will even send you a t-shirt with it on to say thankyou! I am glad of your help.

What are some environmental factors and issues related to climate change in the Netherlands?

Thanks to anyone that can help

Say for a fact that we know that man is the main driving factor behind climate change. Just because the temperature has risen from a global minimum and CO2 has increased during the same time frame doesn’t mean that CO2 and methane are driving the temperature change.
For MTR and others who spout the use of tree rings etc to recreate past temperature history, than why does the US EPA now is seriously doubting this information? That is one of the points that I am trying to make, the more research into the climate the more the AGW models are being filled with doubts.

Do they not realize that climate change is a naturally occuring phenomenon? Now after all those times of climate changing over and over again, all of a sudden they know how to stop climate change and all we have to do is to shovel billions of $$$ to other countries? This stuff sounds like a wealth redistribiution scam to me.

What do we really know about climate change anyway?

It’s much better to work to limit pollution than to go try to stop something that cannot be stopped in the first place.

Why not just throw our litter on the floor? It would eventually return to nature: decompose more quickly than Landfill. How is piling plastic bags full of rubbish, on top of thousands of other plastic bags full of rubbish in landfill sites better for the Environment?
(will take a few mins to download)
Explanations about how we process rubbish all the problems associated with it
and what may be done in future and all problems. There is no evidence to suggest
that landfill is not a problem. There is more evidence to suggest there are more
problems than we knew about.

Climate Change and Waste

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/dirty_truths.pdf

Climate Change and Stopping OVER Consumption
•Waste prevention -the best environmental option, avoiding resource use
•Reuse -reduces need for resources and manufacturing
•Recycling -reduces need for extraction and processing of new resources
•Composting -returns nutrients and structure to soils; displaces other fertilizers; sequesters carbon; and, in the case of anaerobic digestion, produces methane which can be used as a 100% renewable energy source.
•Then we must phase out the rest -the residual waste, which is currently landfilled or incinerated
–Phasing out residual waste is the right long term direction, both for resource efficiency and climate change.

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/event_presentations/waste_and_climate_change.pdf

Biodegradeable Wastes Returning to the soil

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefing_notes/way_forward_on_biowaste.pdf

Campaign Guide. This is old research but demonstrates current arguments. Simply states why landfill sites are not well managed.

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/reports/landfill_campaign_guide.pdf

Waste Stream and New Technologies and their problems (follow links within)

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefing_notes/new_waste_technologies.pdf

anaerobic digestion

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/anaerobic_digestion.pdf

Why putting waste on the ground is a great idea (like in French Vineyards) where it is not even sorted before placing on ground.

Abstract gives sources Utilization of Urban Wastes in Crop Production

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0006-3568%2819710615%2921%3A12%3C561%3AUOUWIC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage

Stabilization of organic matter during composting.

http://www.woodsend.org/pdf-files/s.houout_CSU_vol13No1.pdf

Environmental and Health Impact of Solid Waste Management Activities
By Ronald E. Hester, Roy M. Harrison

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=tP6BEJBUD_8C&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=France+Vineyard+refuse+mulch&ots=dJheQ62BXG&sig=HrBjTWbiQzmGCKWhiu0tcTCf_KM#PPA211,M1

Seastedt T R 1984 The role of microarthropods in decomposition and mineralization process. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 29, 25–46.

St John T V 1980 Influence of litter bags on growth of fungal vegetative structures. Oecologia 46, 130–132.

Stevenson F J 1986 Cycles of soil carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, micronutrients. John Wiley and Sons, New York, USA.

TSBF 1993 Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility: A Handbook of Methods. Second ed. Eds. J M Anderson and J S I Ingram. CAB, Wallingford, UK.
SO In the worst case scenario even if you do not compost just place the waste on the land, after all the organic material decomposes you are left with the plastics tins, glass, etc which does not biodegrade. This is already ‘presorted’ so it would just be a case of collecting up these materials for recycling.

Not looking like such as stupid idea is it now?

I am organising a short conference on climate change and energy at work. How best do I ignite people’s interest? Can you think of any interactive elements that I can use? Any ideas (however wild) are welcome.

I also want to minimise the carbon footprint of the event. Can you recommend any caterers that offset their energy expenditure?
Reply to D S – Yes I am a cult leader, but only in my spare time. This conference is being organised in my other capacity as a bureaucrat.

Ideas required – 10 points guaranteed

How could the worlds climate change over the next 100 years if humans do nothing to limit the levels of their greenhouse gas emissions?
I have to write a paper on it. So I need lots of answers
Also I have to make predictions about the effects such climate changes could have on humans.

I’m reading a study about climate change and it mentions an index of locate climate along with a number of years (xxxx-xxxx). Does this just mean that the study is focusing on the climate (locally) for these amount of years? Thanks.

I am doing a science project.

(For those not so bright people out there, light pollution has nothing to do with climate change or chemicals or anything like that)

I would like to know what common people think about climate change. Do they see any changes in their countrys climate? Or maybe they have suffered the consequences of climate change?