Global warming warning from Aggreko

A warning has come from Aggreko, the world’s leading temporary power supplier, which claims that global warming has been accelerated to a far greater extent than first believed. The study from Aggreko attributes this to the growth of developing economies in Africa, Asia and South America.

The report was commissioned by Aggreko from Oxford Economics, the commercial part of Oxford University’s business college. Rupert Soames, chief executive of Aggreko, has stated that the current consensus figure on the world’s power consumption up to 2015 is incorrect.

Although the International Energy Authority (IEA) puts the annual growth rate for the world’s power consumption at a growth of 3.3% until 2015, the Aggreko study puts this figure at 5%.

The study looked at the growth of developing countries in greater detail than the IEA. Soames spoke of the reality of the growth in developing countries which ultimately results in more work and then a more consumerist nature as a consequence, with people buying mobile phones, fridges and TVs.

Soames discussed the existing problem with telling these countries, countries that are just being able to afford such items, that they shouldn’t buy these things as they need to protect the earth from global warming.

Yet as a result of the survey Soames as able to suggest a solution to increasing concerns over global warming.

He spoke of the need to change the approximate 8000 power stations worldwide, of which the majority are coal-fired, to make a dramatic impact. He stated the impact of simply changing the worst polluting 150 power stations into clean nuclear stations as having the same impact should every single car in the world was taken off the road.