Climate Change: How much can we stand?

According to the latest studies and reports about climate change our world is changing drastically and the change is speeding up. The global temperature is rising, sea level is rising, arctic sea ice is disappearing, less snow in lower regions, heavy storms are more frequents, and more and more. Scientists mostly agree that the main source of this change is human and his activities. The latest fourth IPCC (Intergovernmental panel on climate change) Assessment Report - Climate Change 2007 is showing frightening climate change assessments and predictions for the future (http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/assessments-reports.htm):

• probable temperature rise by the end of the century: between 1.8c and 4C


• possibility of highest temperature rise up to 6.4C


• sea level rise up to 43 centimeters

So what can we do about it, is there still a way to improve this situation or we are to late, our earth has no more brakes it is just speeding up to … WHERE? Even Kyoto Protocol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol) will not solve this problem… it is a good way of improving things but I think this won’t be enough to save our earth. But we should not fall into despair. I think we’ll have to accommodate our life style and we (businesses and people) we’ll have to act green as much as possible. Some tips you can find already here: 99environmentadvices.blogspot.com.

Is your new car environment friendly

Let’s say that I just bought a new energy efficient car with low fuel consumption (maybe even hybrid car) and low CO2 emissions. Beside that the producer of the car says it is recyclable up to 75% of total mass or parts in my car. Equipped with all this “environment friendly” information I should be very proud owner of my new car, but should I be really proud on this? Did you know that?

• According to some studies the investment in new “environment friendly” car with lower emissions will not return (e.g. in sense of CO2) in the whole life cycle of the new car. A production of new car makes so much damage to the environment (CO2, water, waste, natural resources).


• Did you know that producing car catalyst in the factory can pollute environment so much that it seems better to drive without catalyst for another 5 years.

I think the best way to reduce pollution and to reduce car CO2 emissions is to drive less, to plan our trips, to have as less as possible cars at home (not single car for every family member) and to drive our car as long as possible. If you really must by a new car or second hand car then you should by one less polluting. According to some new studies even cycling or walking is less environment friendly than traveling by car… it sounds strange … but let me investigate this first.

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REAL ACTION: 99 Environment friendly advices

I think many of us just can’t see opportunities for environment friendly living due to the constant race for business, daily activities, stress and other factors. Those “disturbing” factors force us to behave according to our plans and company’s plans, almost everything is in the plan in our tight schedule, but what is missing … I think environment component is missing in our plan. For the start maybe just to check if all lights are switched off when leaving our homes at the morning, or to think in which shop we have to go in our way home to reduce our travel costs and of course pollution. Those are the little things which will enable use to continue planning also other “more important” business plans in the future. If we forget about those little environment friendly things, I’m not sure how long we will be able to make plans for our business and daily activities… maybe 20 years… who knows? So let’s act environment friendly now – my new blog is the right place to move into action, visit 99 Environment Friendly advices, powered by Green Confident blogs, always in action.

REAL ACTION: Heat Pump Project for your home

O.K. so let start with first green confident example, an example of using green energy or so called renewable energy. This is the project which I planed and accomplished by my self and some services providers. It is the project of implementing heat pump for home heating and hot water preparation for single household. My primary source of energy is earth energy stored in under earth surface. I opened the special blog for this theme, because I want to describe the whole process supported with text and pictures of real Heat Pump Project implementation. So please visit my next specialized blog at: heatpumpproject.blogspot.com.

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First Green Confident post for saving the world

This is the first Green Confident Blog and the first post in the series of blogs coming soon under the name Green Confident Blogs. I decided to open this blog because of one mission standing in front of me and this is: saving our planet using web. I'm observing our earth each day strugling for survival because of more and more polution, waste, nature destruction... and other bad things happening to our planet. What can we do ... I THINK THERE ARE LOT OF THINGS THAT COULD BE DONE HELPING OUR PLANET TO SURVIVE ANOTHER 1000 YEARS AND MORE.

Ecology, energy and sustainable living is my focus area for a long time, while my professional experience is in informatics, webtechnology and technology research. I believe I can follow my mission with joining my energy, knowledge and experience and also yours supporting Green Confident Blogs. SAVING PLANET EARTH SHOULD BE OUR MISSION.

... comming soon with new posts and concrete actions ...