3rd September - Today's News: Typhoon Kompasu Hits Seoul
Typhoon Kompasu hits South Korean capital Seoul whilst Typhoon Lionrock makes landfall at E China's Fujian
Meanwhile, Hurricane Earl weakens as it nears US East Coast but with Fiona on its heels, and Gaston also now formed, it looks like the predicted busy hurricane season is finally underway.
Amazon river in Peru at 40 year low - let's hope the wet season arrives soon.
It was reported earlier this week that Japan had had it's hottest August since 1946, and now the Japanese Met Agency have confirmed that overall their summer this year was the warmest since records began in 1898. Unfortunately, their actual news release is in Japanese .... But I'm sure you can get the gist!
There was another tornado of fire spotted in Hawaii a few days ago
Don't get too excited, but snow way: the first fall of the season - the Cairngorms saw their first snow showers of the autumn last weekend (as was predicted) and meanwhile, some snow patches hang on in the Cairngorms from last winter.
And down in NZ, snow falls as wintry blast heads north
Water in mantle key to survival of oldest continents
Last year there was a decrease in global carbon dioxide emissions - no doubt in part due to the global recession. Emissions from India and China rose, as you'd expect. With rapidly growing and increasing affluent populations, they'll not be reducing emissions and decade soon.
Meanwhile, openness urged on UK's emissions - seems our emissions are not actually going down at all
Meanwhile, Hurricane Earl weakens as it nears US East Coast but with Fiona on its heels, and Gaston also now formed, it looks like the predicted busy hurricane season is finally underway.
Amazon river in Peru at 40 year low - let's hope the wet season arrives soon.
It was reported earlier this week that Japan had had it's hottest August since 1946, and now the Japanese Met Agency have confirmed that overall their summer this year was the warmest since records began in 1898. Unfortunately, their actual news release is in Japanese .... But I'm sure you can get the gist!
There was another tornado of fire spotted in Hawaii a few days ago
Don't get too excited, but snow way: the first fall of the season - the Cairngorms saw their first snow showers of the autumn last weekend (as was predicted) and meanwhile, some snow patches hang on in the Cairngorms from last winter.
And down in NZ, snow falls as wintry blast heads north
Water in mantle key to survival of oldest continents
Last year there was a decrease in global carbon dioxide emissions - no doubt in part due to the global recession. Emissions from India and China rose, as you'd expect. With rapidly growing and increasing affluent populations, they'll not be reducing emissions and decade soon.
Meanwhile, openness urged on UK's emissions - seems our emissions are not actually going down at all
At face value UK emissions look like they have decreased 15% or 16% since 1990. But if you take in carbon embedded in our imports, our emissions have gone up about 12%. We've got to be more open about this.Basically, we get Indonesia to produce cheap goods for us, their emissions consequently go up, ours go down. Net emissions overall are also higher because Indonesia is likely to be less energy efficient plus there is additional transportation.
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