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Home Planet recording in Edinburgh
An edition of Home Planet is going to be recorded at 1:00pm on Sunday 2 March at the Dynamic Earth Centre in Edinburgh. Please do come and be part of the studio audience. If you would like to pose a question to the panel in person please send us the question in advance by email, post or via the 大象传媒 Audience Line, details below, marking your question EDINBURGH.
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The Home Planet Team.
TOPICS
A Wood Based Society
Would moving to a more wood based society allow us to preserve forests more readily and help absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?
, the international scheme that is one of the most widespread schemes for certifying that wood has been harvested sustainably.
Information on forests and climate change from
Further information on forests and climate change from , part of the Forestry Commission.
of the US Department of Agriculture. This has a huge amount of information on wood and wood products.
Measuring Sea Level
Where is sea level measured from and how might that change as sea levels rise?
describing some of the technologies used to measure sea level accurately.
A description of how sea level is measure from the
, where the original recordings of sea level were made, from the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory.
Biomass and Flood Plains
Would using flood plains to grow biomass for fuel be a good use of areas that cannot be used to build on?
aims to draw together information from existing sources into one easy to use service to UK individuals, companies, local authorities and other UK organizations. This website focuses on the various biomass fuel types that are commercially available or being researched. It provides basic information on fuel processing and supply chains, currently with an emphasis on woodfuel and heat production.
This has further links to the many different ways in which wood can be used for fuel.
The Forestry Commission in England is supporting the development of woodfuel - a clean, efficient and renewable energy source. Contains a .
How is coal made from trees?
What is the process that turns trees into coal and how many trees does it take to produce a tonne of anthracite?
you can do at home to see how wood is turned into coal.
, how it is made, what it is made of and the different types.
when the coal in the UK was laid down.
Invest in Models or Mitigation?
The models that are used to predict how climate change will proceed are inaccurate so should more money be spent making them more accurate before we commit to any course of action to mitigate climate change?
from the UK Met Office.
Information on the use of computers to model climate change from the
run by the 大象传媒 with information and computer programming from the Met Office.
The Royal Society's discussion of the
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