Website contents
CO2 calculator
The climate crisis and what to do about it
- Climate crisis 10-point action plan
- Key points
- IPCC report of 2018: halve emissions by 2030
- Climate change: the basics
- Stop burning fossil fuels: Stay within the budget of 420Gt CO2
- Global emissions are rising and governments are failing
- The rising feeling of desperation
- Simple solutions for the climate crisis, which should have been implemented already
Action needed
- Summary
- Local government
- Local government: Make walking safe
- National government
- Organisations
- Individuals
- Passivhaus home standards
- 'Offsetting'?
False and dubious solutions
Awareness raising
Civil disobedience
- Civil disobedience in a democracy: Q and A
- Civil disobedience and the law
- Greta Thunberg and the school strikes
- Extinction Rebellion
Reasons for optimism
Tecnicalities by sector
- The UK has not cut its greenhouse gas emissions
- International comparisons
- The basics
- Emissions from home energy
- "Green electricity"
- Emissions from cars
- Emissions from food
- Health, education, etc emissions
- Buses
- Trains
- Aviation
- UK average footprint
- References
- Calculator version information
Standards of administration in a democracy
Performance assessments
- Assessing performance on the climate crisis
- 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
About
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About us
Authors
This website was launched in 2007 to give unbiased information on climate change, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, and how to become independent of fossil fuels. The calculator is constructed according to the best information available, and will be updated as new information becomes available.The main author is Ian Campbell BA, BSc, MD, FRCS, FRCR.
Ian Campbell has worked as a doctor and as a medical statistics consultant. As well as medical qualifications, he has a degree in statistics and a doctorate in the use of statistical methods in cancer research - see www.iancampbell.co.uk.
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@Ian_Campbell_We have no financial interest in this area. We have constructed the website because we care about what is happening to our world, and are concerned about the future of children and future generations.
Thanks are due to Margaret, Helen, Debbie, Peter, Carol, Geraldine, Clive, Andrew, Patrick, Ann, Gen and John for feedback on earlier versions of this calculator.
Citations
- one of three recommended by Ethical Consumer Magazine (Nov/Dec 2007 issue) in the "Best Overall Online Calculators" category.
- one of the calculators recommended by the Newsletter of Women's Environmental Network (Winter 2007 issue) www.wen.org.uk.
- recommended by The Three Tonne Club Handbook (2008) www.wen.org.uk.
Contact us
Comments on any aspect of this website are welcome.We aim to give a fair summary of the evidence, and give unbiased conclusions. If we have omitted important considerations, or not given them due weight, please let us know.
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Photocredits
- Flooded telephone box: The Flood! Catcliffe Fire Brigade rescuers: Copyright Mark Lomas www.flickr.com/photos/outallnight/
- Dry river bed: Matt & Kim Rudge www.flickr.com/photos/mattandkim/94501076/in/datetaken/
Evidence of the severity of the drought in Kenya - this was marked on the map as a river.
- Wind turbines: Stuart Yeates www.flickr.com/photos/stuartyeates/93821358/in/datetaken/
- Boys biking, silhouette: Copyright Karl Hutchinson: www.flickr.com/photos/whateverthing/
First published Feb 2007
Last updated: 1 Jan 2020
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