Why Should I Care?

No doubt that you have heard, seen, read reports on last week’s ‘big news’ in the climate community.  By chance if you hadn’t, last week a climate research center in the UK had a hacking event take place that exposed a wide array of files including some not so flattering emails.  Ordinarily we try to [...]

Maybe we should start by addressing the question – What is the Montreal Protocol?  This international agreement aimed at eliminating man made chemicals that are believed to weaken the important ozone layer that protects the planet.  In our last post we looked at the issue of why humans have been essentially status quo with respect [...]

It is known that the industrial age has lead to great quantities of Carbon Dioxide being introduced into the atmosphere that is well above any natural emission levels in recent millennia.  It is also naive to imagine this would have no meaningful impact on the planet.  Let’s for a moment accept the findings in the [...]

Today we evaluate a mechanism put forth under the Kyoto Protocol to curb and/or control levels of greenhouse gases.  This post will not dwell on the scientific ideas of why we might want to do this, but for those of you not familiar with the science, here are some links that can give you a [...]