The most efficient way to ignore the effects of climate change is to look only at the atmosphere. Scientists often quote degrees of warming and changes to the gas composition of the atmosphere. However, nothing on our living planet exists solely in the air. Most ocean species are confined to the seas, however, and cannot … Continue reading A Down-to-Ocean View of Climate Change
What Can We Do? The Amazon rainforest is burning, and it's upsetting. Large clearances are occurring to make way for cattle farming. There's a lot of hysteria regarding the burning in the Amazon, and for a good reason. The Amazon rainforest is rich with biodiversity and is a significant carbon sink. A study in 2014 … Continue reading The Burning Amazon
Photo by Peter Prokosch Seaweed is one of the most straightforward crops to grow. All it requires is light and nutrients that are already present in the seawater. Along with being simple to grow, they don't need any harmful fertilizers or promote deforestation and other negative land-use changes. [1] Greenwave are currently designing vertical farms … Continue reading The Seaweed Solution to Climate Change
How Do Nuclear Power Stations Work? This is a surprisingly rarely asked question! Perhaps because "nuclear" is a word so often featured in the media, people tend to convince themselves that familiarity is equivalent to understanding. Uranium (and sometimes Plutonium) atoms split in a process called nuclear fission. Small particles called neutrons split the molecules, … Continue reading Nuclear Energy
What Impact Does Flying Have on Global Climate? Aviation is an incredibly polluting sector, contributing as much as 5% towards the current global CO2 emissions. [1] Besides, planes contrails release a cocktail of nitrous oxide, water vapour and soot. The release of these chemicals in the troposphere and stratosphere can be up to four times … Continue reading The Climate Cost of Flying
