The direct release of nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) from wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) is important because it contributes to the global greenhouse gases (GHGs) release and strongly effects the WWTP carbon footprint. Biological nitrogen removal technologies could increase the direct emission of N2O (IPCC, 2006), while CH4 losses are of environmental, economic and safety concern. Cu...

In their recent Nature article Pielke et al. (2008) convey as a their key message that the IPCC dramatically underestimates the socio-economic effort it would take to transform the 21 century non-policy high emission path into a policy-induced low-emission path. Thus, the core statement of working group 3 in the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC seems to begin to totter – that an ambitious c...

We analyse global temperature and sea-level data for the past few decades and compare them to projections published in the third and fourth assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The results show that global temperature continues to increase in good agreement with the best estimates of the IPCC, especially if we account for the effects of short-term variabil...