elrst.com is back, for good
If you wanted to access this website between last Thursday and this morning, you noticed it wasn’t properly working. As I just brought back my articles, everything is as brand new again.
My choice of stabilization wedges
Pr. Socolow and Pacala, in their stabilization wedges theory and their website ( the Climate Mitigation Initiative ) invite people to pick up their own wedges to create their own solution. I chose mine and explain my choices.
On Stabilization Wedges Theory – Details & comments
As I wrote on this post, I will give today the details on the 15 wedges as well as some general comments on the Stabilization Wedges Theory.
A global response to cut the energy use of buildings
Read last week on IHT.com and in Le Figaro. Some of the world’s largest cities, with a few companies and banks are willing to decrease the energy consumption of large cities worldwide. This is indeed very good news.
Climate change to alter the cycle of seasons
Science et Vie, one of the magazines I read, is a wonderful source of data. Albeit the fact I am no scientist and I don’t got any scientific degree, I always have been largely interested by hard sciences. It begun with my interest for astronomy.
Article en Français. De l’isolation des logements
Pour mon premier article en Français pour ce blog, je vais parler d’un sujet qui me tient à coeur depuis la rédaction de mon mémoire de Master. L’isolation des logements est ainsi selon moi une priorité dans la lutte contre le changement climatique. Nous verrons ici pourquoi.
Peak oil is near… around 2015 !
I came across a very interesting website today via an article from Les Echos. This page is about peak oil, the point where half of oil reserves will be used up and according to this source, it should occur around 2015, ie. in less than ten years. David Strahan, the author of The last oil …
On Stabilization Wedges Theory – Introduction
One of the most interesting theories on climate change mitigation I came across was written by Robert Socolow and Stephen Pacala, professors at Princeton. This theory gives 15 ways to decrease our carbon dioxide emissions.
A look at the electricity consumption of LCD screens
The LCD technology is everywhere now, in our offices, homes etc. At the beginning they replaced our computer screens but they are now replacing our old television sets. We will see today if it is good news for the electricity consumption.
Solutions from the IPCC report
The IPCC paper shows the existence of numerous solutions to mitigate and even stop climate change. Here are some of them that can, and have to, be putted in place before 2030.