Blogposts tagged 'Nature'

A trillion tonnes of carbon

Posted by christian - 11 May 2009 at 8:56am - 2 Comments

One day, if we get it right, and we're lucky, humans will be able to look back and talk about 'the carbon age'. Starting with the industrial revolution, and ending at the end of this century, well be able to count the total amount of carbon we released during the carbon age. And if we've successfully managed the tricky situation we're in, that amount will be less than 1 trillion tonnes.

Article tagged as: carbon budgets, climate change, nature

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New Scientist and Greenpeace Science Debates

Publication date: 21 March, 2007

Science, technology and our future: the big questions

What is 'natural'?

Publication date: 16th April 2002

Summary
The question and answer session raised issues as wide ranging as alternative medicine, population growth, bio-diversity and the rights of apes.

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New Scientist and Greenpeace Science Debates

Article tagged as: biodiversity, nature, new scientist lectures, science

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New Scientist and Greenpeace Science Debates

Publication date: 21 March, 2007

Science, technology and our future: the big questions.

What is 'natural'?

Publication date: 16th April 2002

Summary
Chris Leaver explained how all food crops were the products of human intervention and made a plea for genetic modification to be used to feed the world, particularly with a growing population.

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New Scientist and Greenpeace Science Debates

Article tagged as: debate, genetic engineering, GM food, nature, new scientist, reports

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New Scientist and Greenpeace Science Debates

Publication date: 21 March, 2007

Science, technology and our future: the big questions.

What is 'natural'?

Publication date: 16th April 2002

Summary
Aubrey Manning concluded that because there is no clear dividing line between our ape-ancestors and modern humans and their inventions that everything, including machine guns and space shuttles were 'natural'. But that still meant we had to behave with responsibility

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New Scientist and Greenpeace Science Debates

Article tagged as: debate, nature, new scientist, reports

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New Scientist and Greenpeace Science Debates

Publication date: 21 March, 2007

Science, technology and our future: the big questions

Publication date: 16th April 2002

Summary
Patrick Holden made a plea for more intuitive and emotional elements to be integrated in our too-rationalistic decision-making, and that we have much to learn from nature as well as to take from it.

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