Climate change

Human Induced Climate Change

"we are conducting an enormous chemical experiment with potentially huge consequences for our environment, for our economies, and for human life."
Adair Turner, ex Director General of the CBI (Confederation of British Industry)

Buildings and Climate Change

• The UK's dwellings consume three times more energy than the UK's private cars.
• Buildings make up the UK's fastest-growing source of CO2 emissions.
• Energy use in non-domestic buildings is increasing as fast as fuel for air travel.

The AECB believes that the government's target of a 60% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2050 is too little, too late. Climate change demands a reduction of at least 85%. If the dwelling stock grows in total floor area by 50% during that period, to reduce total CO2 emissions by 85% we have to reduce CO2 emissions per unit floor area by 90%.

"Is there a point negotiating on how far to build a bridge across a canyon? The mistakeis to treat scientific advice on targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions as optional. In fact, they are as optional as breathing. Fail to meet them and we will lose a liveable atmosphere."
Andrew Simms, Director, New Economics Foundation

An amusing but disturbing investigation into the science behind one high profile denier of global warming: Read the full article here

"Contraction & Convergence" or "C&C" establishes a constitutional, global-equal-rights-based framework for the arrest of greenhouse gas emissions. For more information http://www.gci.org.uk/

For discussion and debate go to the AECB Forum.
See the AECB Energy Standards

Links:

• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• Indicators of Climate Change
• The Carbon Trust
• New Scientist
• www.carbonsense.org
• The Global Commons Institute (GCI)

Quotes:

"Doing nothing is not an option. You may doubt some of the predictions and their likely impacts, but I suggest that a sensible analysis of the risks does not allow us to sit back and wait."
Peter Ewins, Chief Executive, The Met. Office.

"If a qualitative climate change were to occur suddenly in the coming century-within less than 10 years-as has happened many times before in geological history, we may already have written our epitaph."
Jeremy Rifkin, President of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington DC.

"Lost forest cover, decaying vegetation and overheated soils are expected to release as much as 77 gigatonnes of carbon into the atmosphere. This will raise global temperatures significantly more than the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts to dateThe battle to get greenhouse gas levels under control ought to be treated as global priority number one."
Tam Dalyell MP.

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