Scientists have been issuing dire warnings on the catastrophic implications of greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon Dioxide including surface level ozone, methane, Nitrous oxides and fluorinated gases are among the most notorious greenhouse…
Tag: Climate Change
Committee on Climate Change calls for urgent action on climate change
The Committee on Climate Change has called upon the Government to take urgent action in a bid to avoid increasing costs and impacts of climate change in the UK. The CCC said…
Global warming unlikely to reduce number of winter deaths
In a research that defies the conventional wisdom that global warming could reduce winter deaths, researchers have found that we should expect substantial reduction in winter deaths as a result of climate…
Church of England pulls back from thermal coal and tar sands investments
In a step towards helping in the fight against climate change, the Church of England and The Church Commissioners have announced a £12 million divestment plan under which they will be selling…
Earth Hour 2015: Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, others to plunge into darkness
Earth Hour 2015 will see more than 700 landmarks across the world plunge into darkness starting 20:30 GMT on Saturday 2015 and to show their support major landmarks in the UK are…
Brits at risk of exotic mosquito-borne diseases as temperatures rise in UK
Researchers have warned that increasing temperatures in the UK owing to climate change could create apt conditions for mosquitoes to breed in the UK thereby accelerating the emergence of vector-borne diseases such…