What does Global Warming Mean to Business? Save Money while You Save Carbon

<h1>What does Global Warming Mean to Business? Save Money while You Save Carbon</h1>Author: <a title="Jean Cannon" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/jean-cannon/154045.htm">Jean Cannon</a> small to medium business owners and managers struggle with limited time work out how to cut their costs and reduce all the various water that so easily happens in any business.I think we all know that we are living beyond our environmental means. We recently found out what happened when some of us lived beyond our financial means and how it impacted on the whole world. We don't want to learn the same lesson with the environment.We are approaching limits to the rate we can continue to use oil and this will result in increasing costs and supply problems. There is still plentiful coal but the downside is the huge amounts of carbon dioxide released when it is used. The big problem with bio fuels is that so many of them use much needed food supplies or result in clearing even more tropical rain forest, resulting in less carbon dioxide absorption and animal extinctions. Biofuels from algae grown on sewage seems more sensible and sewage is not in short supply!Lots of us are asking questions <A href="like:-">like:-</A> - What is happening in the world? - Is global warming real? - How will my kids and grandkids cope as they grow up? - How can I reduce my spiralling costs of energy?What is real is atmospheric pollution! Man's activities have resulted in a layer of chemical pollution in the atmosphere that acts like an insulating blanket holding in heat. This is putting our children and grandchildren's future at risk. We ignore this at THEIR peril.The problem is that we cannot see this, so find it difficult to recognise the threat but it has been measured reliably. That is fact. Over the millennia there have been natural processes of heating and cooling resulting in very different sea levels but the greenhouse layer of pollution has added an additional heating factor.We can expect much greater weather variability but a very severe winter is completely compatible with global warming, so is hotter, drier weather in countries like Australia and more intense storms. However these are weather not climate.Now we are having carbon restrictions and emission trading around the developed world. And so we should!BUT business is concerned about their rising cost plus the cost of complying with new carbon rules and carbon accounting. This is especially the case for the small end of town who are already under stress from global financial issues and just because they are small and already time poor. They are reluctant to take on anything else that is new, which is completely understandable.It is possible to reduce waste and save significant amounts of money in businesses and this is really good news. The real problem is helping business to understand how easy it can be to just turn things off and waste less.A great starting point is to go for a "grumpy" walk every day before going home and turn off everything that is not essential.The popular step of getting a carbon audit done, then buying carbon offsets or paying some form of carbon tax seems wasteful until after you have reduced your energy use as much as possible first! About the Author:

Jean Cannon is an enviro-entrepreneur -both a scientist and a business person and has been both for over 20 years. So if you are confused about global warming, climate change and the need to reduce our carbon emissions and you just want to look at the reality of what is happening and how it affects you in your business and your life, get truly helful strategies from <a href="http://www.carbonsteps.com/"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.carbonsteps.com">http://www.carbonsteps.com</a></a>

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small to medium business owners and managers struggle with limited time work out how to cut their costs and reduce all the various water that so easily happens in any business.

I think we all know that we are living beyond our environmental means. We recently found out what happened when some of us lived beyond our financial means and how it impacted on the whole world. We don't want to learn the same lesson with the environment.

We are approaching limits to the rate we can continue to use oil and this will result in increasing costs and supply problems. There is still plentiful coal but the downside is the huge amounts of carbon dioxide released when it is used. The big problem with bio fuels is that so many of them use much needed food supplies or result in clearing even more tropical rain forest, resulting in less carbon dioxide absorption and animal extinctions. Biofuels from algae grown on sewage seems more sensible and sewage is not in short supply!

Lots of us are asking questions like:- - What is happening in the world? - Is global warming real? - How will my kids and grandkids cope as they grow up? - How can I reduce my spiralling costs of energy?

What is real is atmospheric pollution! Man's activities have resulted in a layer of chemical pollution in the atmosphere that acts like an insulating blanket holding in heat. This is putting our children and grandchildren's future at risk. We ignore this at THEIR peril.

The problem is that we cannot see this, so find it difficult to recognise the threat but it has been measured reliably. That is fact. Over the millennia there have been natural processes of heating and cooling resulting in very different sea levels but the greenhouse layer of pollution has added an additional heating factor.

We can expect much greater weather variability but a very severe winter is completely compatible with global warming, so is hotter, drier weather in countries like Australia and more intense storms. However these are weather not climate.

Now we are having carbon restrictions and emission trading around the developed world. And so we should!

BUT business is concerned about their rising cost plus the cost of complying with new carbon rules and carbon accounting. This is especially the case for the small end of town who are already under stress from global financial issues and just because they are small and already time poor. They are reluctant to take on anything else that is new, which is completely understandable.

It is possible to reduce waste and save significant amounts of money in businesses and this is really good news. The real problem is helping business to understand how easy it can be to just turn things off and waste less.

A great starting point is to go for a "grumpy" walk every day before going home and turn off everything that is not essential.

The popular step of getting a carbon audit done, then buying carbon offsets or paying some form of carbon tax seems wasteful until after you have reduced your energy use as much as possible first!

Jean Cannon is an enviro-entrepreneur -both a scientist and a business person and has been both for over 20 years. So if you are confused about global warming, climate change and the need to reduce our carbon emissions and you just want to look at the reality of what is happening and how it affects you in your business and your life, get truly helful strategies from http://www.carbonsteps.com

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