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For those who are interested in climate change, or just want to know a little more about the subject, there will be a lecture in Norwich this coming Monday- which is free of charge.

The lecture will be headed up by expert Dr Colin Summerhayes, and is being held at the University of East Anglia.

Issues expected to be covered in the lecture include the Antarctica, consequences of climate change, its impact on the environment and the ozone layer.

The lecture would provide a great starting point for anyone who is looking to study the subject during further education, or you can just pop along for an interesting evening out!

A couple of TV adverts, which aimed at educating viewers on the eventual perils of global warming have been slammed and banned by the Advertising Standards Authority.

The adverts depicted flooding and drought, and cartoon images, along with nursery rhymes were used to demonstrate this.

However, the adverts came under fire after more than 900 complained, which led to an investigation by the ASA.

The investigation ultimately concluded that the adverts were misleading, and that the way in which they presented the effects of global warming were extremely exaggerated.

After the decision, Climate Change minister Ed Miliband accepted the decision and pledged that any new commercials would depict global warming in a truer light.

When it comes to the topic of global warming and the environment, many people are confused about what exactly they can do to help do their bit.

Well, if you’re UK then it’s highly likely that you have been provided with bins to separate your household rubbish. It’s important that you use these bins correctly- they are there for a reason!

It’s all about recycling as much as possible, and this doesn’t have to mean that you spend hours and hours sorting through your rubbish and belongings- little and often is the best way to do your bit for the environment and not feeling as though it’s a massive chore!

A Scottish professor has recently claimed that information on climate change, and how to tackle it is sat festering in archives- effectively being ignored.

Professor Alastair Dawson, who works at Aberdeen University, voiced his concerns after realising that weather reports from the past are being filed away without being studied, and that through conducting a little research, a lot could be learnt.

He commented:

“If we are to have an informed discussion on how our weather and climate is changing, we need first to learn the nature of past changes and provide reasoned explanations of why such changes took place.”

It remains to be seen whether or not his pleas will fall on deaf ears…

Over every Christmas period the UK sees a massive increase in the amount of waste it has to dispose. The Christmas tree may look brilliant and just what the children are looking for but can you imagine what happens to the millions of trees each year? For every present there is usually a tonne of packaging to get rid of that ranges from plastic to the really annoying foam that is put inside every “breakable” present and with every Christmas dinner there is always the left over food (once you have had your turkey and stuffing sandwich on boxing day).

Waste disposal teams across the UK not only don’t stop work over Christmas but actually work a lot harder to ensure you waste is disposed of correctly.

Waste Disposal teams near me always come round the second weekend in January to collect the unwanted trees and usually a donation to a local charity, which personally is a great way i think to raise money for a good cause as well.

The local “tip” usually has massive queues when it re-opens on the 27th but like me people just don’t want the food / packaging lingering around the house for any longer. The wrapping paper is a difficult one though as the natural instinct is to roll it up in a ball and throw it in a black bin bag, the black bin bags usually get very full though and very quickly.

With many governments trying to cut carbon emissions, why aren’t they dealing with the $50 billion problem of methane leakage coming from patchy gas and oil wells as well as tanks and pipelines.

The level of the methane problem can be put into scale when it can be compared to half the global warming power of all coal power plants in the USA.

Methane like C02 effects the climate, but what is more worrying is that methane is 35 times more potent.

Surely governments should put major resources into resolving this issue, otherwise just cutting C02 emissions alone will not be enough.

We all here on the news everyday about the effects of climate change, and how we all need to reduce our C02 emissions, but how exactly to you go about doing that. There are obvious things such as switching to a car which releases less C02, but what about all the other little things that you can do to help. Well I have included a list here to help, which are not as big a change as switching your car, and might help to ease you in to reducing your carbon footprint.

• Change your light bulbs to energy efficient ones.
• Fit draught excluders in your home to keep the heat in and the cold out.
• Fit radiator reflectors.
• Try cycling to work a couple of days a week, and you’ll really start to feel the benefits as well as your carbon footprint.

All these are little things but if everybody undertook them we could really help reduce the UK’s carbon footprint.

As soon as the summer season comes along so to do the music festivals. Hundreds of thousands of people attend music festivals every year, and their carbon footprint can be very large, but now hopefully things will be set to change. Music Lovers attending the Bestival and Lovebox festivals this year, will be able to enjoy the music as well knowing that the festivals have made a pledge to reduce their carbon footprint by 10%.

Those who organise the festivals are already thinking of ways in which they can achieve this target. Hopefully it will cause other major festivals to make the pledge as well, to help the cause and increase awareness on the subject. Who says we can’t enjoy ourselves and help the environment at the same time?

If we ever wanted real evidence of climate change, then we can look at Madagascar. This island, in the Indian Ocean has suffered from three years of crop failures over the past five years, which has resulted in the island not being able to feed its own people.

Climate change has been blamed for causing disruption to the seasons on the island, but the situation has been made worse by deforestation on the island. All in all this had led to long term droughts and which has affected the growth of crops such as maize and sweet potatoe.

The people living on the island find themselves in a desperate situation with over 8000 children suffering from malnutrition. In the past 50 years Madagascar’s temperature has risen by 10% and its rainfall has decreased by 10%. Experts who have studied this climate change have stated that it is no longer a question of will this trend continue, but instead, by how much will this trend continue?

The changes that have occurred in Madagascar could easily happen to any country throughout the world, so if there was ever a need for urgency in decreasing the rate of climate change the time is now!

It has been stated that the best way to curb C02 emissions is to curb the population. After all, most privileged children emit around 11 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide every year. As time goes on they will likely have more children who will again emit 11 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide annually. Therefore, the title of this post makes real sense.

Even though this will help to save the planet can we really encroach on people’s freedom by enforcing population control and perhaps limiting people to two children per family? It seems totally alien to control people’s lives in this way, but the effect would be radical and is calculated to reduce carbon emissions by 34 gigatones.

Population control does not feature in any of the UN’s agendas, as many governments dismiss the idea, however what I believe that they do need to deal with consumption amongst those who are very wealthy. Members of this community are the ones who are contributing most to the problem and who need educating most on the need to conserve energy.