UK Emissions

DEFRA has just confirmed that in 2006, UK emissions of the basket of six greenhouse gases covered by the Kyoto Protocol were estimated to be 652.3 million tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent.  This was 0.5 per cent lower than the 2005 figure of 655.5 million tonnes. Good, but clearly not good enough.

It’s sad eh?

Glenn Albrecht, an Australian philosopher, has come up with a new syndrome called solastalgia derived from solacium (comfort) and algia (pain). Essentially it is about pining for a lost environment and Albrecht believes this is now how his fellow Australians are reacting to their worst drought ever.  Albrecht believes we should all be concerned about the huge toll climate change will inflict on our mental health because of the human urge to identify with a place. Albrecht says. "We haven't evolved that much. In a world that's quickly changing you can't go home again — even if you never leave.

New age

According to geologists from Leicester University we now have a new period in geological history.  Man has caused such erosion, temperature rises, ocean acidification and wildlife changes we have shifted from the pre industrial Holocene to a new era now known as the Anthrocene.