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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.