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United Kingdom: Government survey finds support fracking has fallen to 24%
Posted by Blue and Green: Jemma Collins on August 13th, 2014
Blue and Green: A survey released on Tuesday by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has contradicted findings from a trade body earlier this week. The new poll found less than a quarter of Brits said they support shale gas extraction, a decline since the previous survey in March.
The DECC public opinion tracker ‘wave 10’ also found continued high levels of support for renewable energy and a drop in support for nuclear power.
When asked about fracking, almost half of respondents were neutral...
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Baseline for ‘normal’ weather needs to be updated due to climate change, says UN agency
Posted by Blue and Green: Jemma Collins on July 10th, 2014
Blue and Green: The World Meteorological Organisation`s (WMO) Commission for Climatology has said the current baselines for weather are out of date and must be updated more frequently due to the impacts of global warming.
Currently, the official existing baseline is based on climate averages of 1961-1990 and is only updated once every 30 years.
During this time weather variables such as temperature rises and rainfall are measured and ‘climate normals’ are created from the averages. These averages can be calculated...
Meat-based diets linked to significant carbon footprints
Posted by Blue and Green: Jemma Collins on July 1st, 2014
Blue and Green: Meat-eaters’ diets have a much larger carbon footprint than vegan, vegetarian and pescatarian diets, a new study published in the journal Climatic Change has found.
The study said that high meat diets have more than double the amount of the greenhouse gas emissions than the average vegan diet. It also mentioned the majority of Britons are high meat consumers and argued that “reducing the amount of animal-based products in the diet represents an achievable way for an individual to reduce their...