This is the fifth tutorial in the series. Here we explain the Earth’s energy imbalance and the complex relationship between aerosols, albedo and the so called ‘greenhouse gases’. Thanks again Em for your research efforts.
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Carbon College Tutorial 5 – Earth’s Energy Imbalance
December 7th, 2012Carbon College Tutorial 3 – Weather vs Climate
September 14th, 2012
Have you ever wondered why sometimes we can’t predict the weather and yet we can predict climate change? With the Arctic ice cap reaching record lows in September 2012, there are some significant changes to our seasonal weather patterns predicted.
Carbon Offset T-shirts
July 2nd, 2010
A T-shirt with a tonne of carbon locked up in it? That must be a pretty big T-shirt right? Not exactly. This new range of T-shirts has been created by Treecreds. Their objective is to save forests from being logged and encourages investment in avoided deforestation offset projects. The T-shirts each contain one tonne of carbon-dioxide equivalent emissions. That is, for every T-shirt purchased, Treecreds retires one carbon credit.