Want to Save the Planet?
If you are interested in Global Environment Issues and you are looking for advice and information on how to help save our planet then please read on.
Global Environmental Issues
What are global warming issues ?
Global Warming is a gradual increase in temperatures across the whole of planet earth. Both natural events and human activities on the earth are contributing to this change. This fact is now very well documented and accepted by scientists as true: the earth is the currently the hottest is has been for over 400 years- [...]
What’s the Science Behind Global Warming and Climate Change?
Global warming – Greenhouse gases and the Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gases come from different sources on Earth and there are only four that have the major blanket effect. These are Carbon dioxide –which is the major building block of the carbon cycle on which all life on Earth depends. In this case there is just too much for the volume of plants on Earth [...]
Effects of Global Warming
There are 10 significant differences in how the earth systems are operating that show the effects of global warming. Of these 10 seven are where measurements are rising and three where measurements are falling. • Falling measurements: Overall measurements by scientists show that as global warming increases, sea ice is melting, glaciers on land are [...]
Get Savvy With Solar Power
Global Dimming
It was in 1985 that a researcher called Atsumu Ohmura who was checking levels of recorded sunlight around Europe found that it appeared to be too dark relative to levels of sunshine recorded by scientists in the 1960s. He found that solar radiation levels hitting the Earth’s surface had gone down by more than 10% in 30 years. And yet, by the 1980s evidence that the Earth was getting hotter was indisputable, so the reduction of solar radiation did not fit in with this idea. [Read More...]
So what about Solar Panels on a northern roof?
Last week we saw our back-garden neighbours having some building work done on their roof. There appeared to be some kinds of long poles or perhaps scaffolding (annoyingly we couldn’t see exactly what was happening). Talking to our next-door neighbour later it turned out that there were solar panels being fitted on the roof.
All this really surprised us as my engineer husband had looked into the issues about getting solar panels for your home and generating solar electricity and decided that our roof faced the wrong way – and here was a neighbour with a roof facing in an even less favourable direction than ours having panels fitted! He had also though that living in the north meant that any systems would receive far less sun power than those further – it appears that this is so, but not significantly. [Read More...]