Tag Archives: Carbon Dioxide

The University of Earth, Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Dr Susan Natali of Woods Hole Research Centre responds to questions about the impact of the higher global temperatures on Permafrost, the resultant melting, and bacterial activity will release additional Carbon Dioxide and Methane that has not been included ...

This discussion has members from the UNFCCC and she talks about how to preserve Peatlands forest. Scientists have discovered the world’s largest tropical Peatlands in the remote Congo swamps, estimated to store the equivalent of three years’ worth of the world’s total fossil fuel emissions. The main issue is about ...

This panel features the WMO signing the corporation agreement with the UN climate change also featuring Mrs Patricia Espinosa UNFCCC executive secretary and WMO secretary general Petteri Taalas and hosted by Nick Nuttall. The panel will discuss the new and important findings with the world meteorological organisation so that they ...

This interview is done by Jason sole when he films Judy Sole who has collected a lot of footage from the Cop23 event where there was an immense level of information. There was a plethora of discussions and interesting things that happened at the Cop23 event most of which were ...

This video gives you a brief explanation of the “Keeling’s curve” and how it came about.  The Keeling Curve is a graph that plots the ongoing change in concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere since the 1950s. It is based on continuous measurements taken at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii ...

In this 2017 UCT Summer School Series, Dr Peter Ardington (BVSc SAVC) presents on “A Brown History of the World ~ Part 1”, where he discusses and presents on the history of mankind’s arrogance and sense of self-importance which has driven and is driving mankind’s care and more importantly lack ...

This edition of ENN looks at Rhino poaching, the effects of increasing temperatures on trees and the extinction of the Bramble Cay Melomys.

The University of Earth: Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Dr Dirk Notz tells us how the Arctic sea ice from 1979, to 2012 has shrunk by 50%. The thickness has also shrunk by 50%. If you half the thickness and area, it means that we have lost about 3 ...