World's carbon emissions hit record rise

Likewise, as I have often posted before. Winters getting shorter and milder every year over the past 30+ years, in several European countries including Sweden (talking about my personal and first-hand experience) with nary any snow here in Geneva during the winter, but until about 30 years ago there regularly was plenty every winter. Hotter and longer dog days in the summer, and dog days in April and May of late. Until a few years ago, in spring and summer and part of autumn, loads of moths at night on my windows and coming in to fly around my lamps, but for several years now hardly any, maybe five or six a year.

Yesterday and today the temperature was 98 degrees F on the tarmac (93 in the shade) here in Pittsburgh, PA. It was the first time in 35 years that we turned on the AC in May -- usually we hold off until July or August because we have so many huge trees and bushes surrounding the house which create a cool microclimate.
It was so hot that I for the first time put styrofoam insulation over the goldfish ponds in an act of compassion and desperation!
I am contemplating building Mylar tents to protect my plants and fish, reflecting the UV back up. Perhaps if enough people began doing that you could see it from space.....

short winters are good for my artheritis bahhhhhhhh

Ayipis is back!

i'm not ayapsis you dumb twat

Okay, so you're his evil twin, just another dog turd to avoid.

you have got to be some kind of a moron

So true. I have a very old cell phone, works fine, and I very rarely use it. I use my computers for years until they break down completely. I did recently purchase a LED flat-screen TV after my 20+ year-old TV set gave up the soul beyond repair. My son and some of his friends have created a small repair company called Podspital where they fix and repair old macs, old ipods and ipads at very affordable prices to keep them "alive". It is a very successful little business which won a prize awarded each year to small businesses which deal with sustainability and environment protection.

Unfortunately, that just isn't true.

Old computer devices cannot be brought in and upgraded to new hardware without essentially throwing out everything inside.

When breakthroughs are made in, for instance, CPU technology, the structure of the circuits is incompatible with the old hardware. So if you get a new CPU, you also need a new motherboard. And if you're replacing the motherboard, you're practically replacing the entire unit. It ends up being far more expensive.

What you should do instead is save all of your old phones and either sell them cheaply or give them to those who need them.

Also, there are schools all over the world that would love to have a computer. So as long as it's functional, donate it to good will.

But the upgrade idea just isn't feasible. Computers aren't like cars or dishwashers or other mechanical devices, where the core parts haven't really changed for decades. Every four years or so, the component parts of a new computer are so radically different that they barely compare to their predecessors.

Indeed! It's ridiculous.
People ask me "why?!" when I tell them I downgraded my cell phone. And there's the problem. People don't understand energy at all.

Normally even the bodies of animals are broken down into nutrients by decomposers to feed the soil, plants and microbes... and we don't even allow that. We put ourselves in coffins... forever sequestering our energy out of a system that is desperately in need of balance.

It's really quite simple. The resources here are limited. Sunlight is technically unlimited, but every other atom ( and by extension, molecule ) on this planet is finite. We only have so much carbon, water, iron, etc. We interrupt the functions of a vast and interconnected system, and we will soon know the true consequences of this.

Well said. Its a simple concept to grasp but it seems like a very small population of the planet actually realize it or seem to care. We live on a planet with FINITE RESOURCES which we, PEOPLE, have came from and evolved out of atoms to molecules to single celled organisms to the multi celled organisms we are today. People have to start realizing that we have to find a balance between what we take from the earth and what we consider as trash and throw away. Right now according to epa.gov the MSW(municipal solid waste) that is recycled and composted is 33.8% and 11.9%. That leaves a total of 54.3% of all MSW is sent to the land fill. If we are to find a balance with this planet with the exponential increase of our population we have to recycle close to 100% of everything we use!

sorry im late in responding but, i was really thinking of apple when i was talking about upgrades, i don't buy for a second that apple for example really is not sitting on technology that is years ahead of what they release, i mean think about it they put out a ipad and within 8 months they have a new one developed and 4 months later they have it ready for manufacture, clearly they have the technology already around they are putting out stuff with 32 gig sdcards inside them when we know damn well that 64 gig technology is already available, they have most of this stuff already, ready.

I have no doubt there is a iphone 7 or 8 technology already developed, apple spends millions in research and then milks what they got for every penny.