Climate change is man-made

The climate emergency: key points

Ten-point action plan

Civil disobedience?

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Carbon footprint calculator

Carbon footprint calculator

Why be concerned

Key points on the climate emergency

The basic science

The physics Climate change is man-made

Pleas for action

UN Secretary-General: "Governments are lying" Young people are pleading for help Greta Thunberg's "blah blah blah" speech, Milan 2021 Pleas from the world's poorest UN Secretary-General: "A grassroots movement that cannot be ignored"

Action needed

Climate emergency ten-point action plan

International commitments

International commitments given

The CO2 budget

The global CO2 budget runs out in 8 years Allocation of the global CO2 budget between countries The maths of staying within the UK's CO2 budget: Halve emissions every 3 years

Reviewing progress against the CO2 budget

Global emissions are still rising The UK's share of the global CO2 budget runs out in 2 years "Zero carbon sooner" CO2 budget report from CUSP UK Government fallacy: overclaiming the reduction in UK CO2 emissions

Identify reasons for lack of progress

Why progress has been so poor Decision making has been systematically poor All sections of society are failing It is a system failure rather than a failure of individuals Cognitive biases, flawed reasoning, denial and fallacies dominate opinions and decision making Ineffective campaigning

Consistency with the IPCC

Climate denial: literal, interpretive and implicatory Climate urgency denial Climate urgency fallacies Checklist for consistency with the IPCC Checklist for consistency with the IPCC: Results summary

Consistent with the IPCC

Climate Uncensored: Climate realism Fridays for Future: Climate realism Campaign against Climate Change: Suboptimal

Not consistent with the IPCC

Friends of the Earth: Climate denial Ethical Consumer Magazine: Climate denial Climate Emergency UK: Climate denial Client Earth: Climate denial Sustrans: Climate denial The BBC: Climate denial The Guardian: Climate denial The British Medical Journal: Climate denial The UK Net Zero strategy would take three times the UK's share of the global CO2 budget

Improve decision making

Improve decision making

Action needed

Summary Local government Passivhaus home standards

Personal action

Reduce your carbon footprint: at least 10% per year

Challenge fallacies and malpractice

Challenge fallacies, incompetence and malpractice Common climate fallacies Planting trees is not a solution Electric vehicles: not an immediate solution

Ensuring good decision making

Assessing performance on the climate emergency Climate Urgency Realism or Denial score Climate urgency denial in UK Government scientists Nolan's Seven Principles of Public Life Civil disobedience in a democracy: Q and A

Technicalities

Emissions by sector

UK average footprint Emissions from home energy "Green electricity" Emissions from cars Food Buses Trains Aviation International comparisons Calculator version information

Quotes

Links

About

About us Why trust this website?

Posts in 2020-2021:

Action needed

Tree planting claims by Zurich scientists were withdrawn 'Offsetting' is not the answer 'Hydrogen power' is not the answer

Ensuring good decision making

The 'Net Zero 2050' UK Government deceits Civil disobedience and the law Extinction Rebellion

Technicalities by sector

Health, education, etc emissions Basic UK energy and greenhouse gas statistics References

Posts in 2019:

The climate crisis and what to do about it

Climate change: the basics Simple solutions for the climate crisis, which should have been implemented already

Action needed

Local government: Make walking safe National government Organisations Individuals

Awareness raising

Leaflets, video

Reasons for optimism

Decline in UK domestic aviation Decline of domestic aviation in Sweden

Standards of administration in a democracy

Effective planning

Performance assessments

BEIS is not telling the truth on carbon emissions Transport for the North: Failing on the climate crisis Steve Rotheram: failing on the climate crisis

Best practice examples

Wirral Council's emission reduction trajectory

Climate change is man-made

There is little doubt that climate change is due to greenhouse gases (especially CO2) released into the atmosphere by human activity.

Levels of CO2 have increased steadily since mankind started burning fossil fuels in large quantities.

The temperature rise is in line with what is predicted by scientists from what is known about the atmosphere.

Levels of CO2 have increasd since the burning of fossil fuels

Levels of CO2 have increased steadily since mankind started burning fossil fuels in large quantities [1]:

As the atmospheric CO2 has increased, so has the temperature

The average temperature rises are in line with what is predicted by scientists from what is known about the atmosphere.

Source: IPCC AR6 WG1 SPM report [2]

References

[1]	NASA https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/ (accessed 29 Oct 2022)

[2]

Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of the Working Group I (WGI) contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) (2021)https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_SPM.pdf For more information on the IPCC and its 2021 report, see document 51

First published: Feb 2019
Last updated: 3 Nov 2022