Being Green - 09 August 2019

I’m sure it hasn’t escaped your attention that recent temperatures in the North have been the hottest on record. In fact the last four years have been the hottest on record according to the UN climate watch. The change is accelerating up to thirty times as fast as it did at the start of the Industrial Revolution. So the push for climate change solutions and action on those theoretical solutions is intensifying. Cutting back emissions and moving to renewables for power generation is one of the popular mantras, and it makes sense to everyone except the vested interests of the coal and oil lobby, but even that is changing.

The average atmospheric CO2 level rises inexorably – the NOAA monitoring figure for July stands at 412 parts per million, up 3 ppm from the same month last year. If we can reduce the level or at least slow its increase down appreciably, we stand a chance of limiting global temperature increase and keeping it down to less than 2 degrees by 2050.