The New York Times reports in an article
In a Melting Trend, Less Arctic Ice to Go Around:
The floating cap of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean shrank this summer to what is probably its smallest size in at least a century of record keeping, continuing a trend toward less summer ice, a team of climate […]
Seen in today’s Independent. Brussels to force EU airlines to join carbon emissions scheme
Controversial moves to add airlines to the EU’s emissions trading scheme will be approved by the European Commission today in a move designed to force the aviation sector and its customers to pay more for the pollution that is generated.
In today’s Independent: This is global warming, says environmental chief.
Super-powerful hurricanes now hitting the United States are the “smoking gun” of global warming, one of Britain’s leading scientists believes.
The growing violence of storms such as Katrina, which wrecked New Orleans, and Rita, now threatening Texas, is very probably caused by climate change, said Sir John […]
Is there really a relationship between Global Warming and the number of pirates on the seas? Bobby Henderson wrote this brilliant Open Letter. He explains his beliefs in the so called ‘Flying Spaghetti Monster’, which is funny enough, but then goes on to explain the relationship between Global Warming and the number of pirates […]
I saw this headline in the The Hindu Business Line: Germany to buy carbon credits from TTD solar kitchen
In its efforts to reduce green house gas (GHG) emissions, the German Government is in the process of buying carbon credits from the solar kitchen of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD). It has identified the TTD kitchen as […]
More Carbon Credit news from India. I saw this in the The Asian Age today.
Carbon Credits are not just produced with forests - although the ones we sell currently are 100% forest developed. In India, Vikram Cement has applied for project validation at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change or UNFCCC, […]
There’s an article mentioning us in the latest issue of the Bush Telegraph magazine. Bush Telegraph Magazine: Spring 2005: Concerned consumers can offset their own emissions
“It’s encouraging to know that in the absence of Australia’s partiicipation in the Kyoto Protocol, State governments, businesses and the public are interested in doing the right thing for […]
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State of the world., originally uploaded by davesag.
I was emailed this little cartoon […]
Just saw this in New Scientist. Warming world blamed for more strong hurricanes.
According to the article, a massive global increase in the number of strong hurricanes over the past 35 years is being blamed on global warming.
In the most detailed study yet, US scientists warn that Katrina-strength hurricanes could become the norm.
There’s an article in last week’s Guardian entitled “Carbon emissions from soil on the up“.
In it they posit that rising temperatures are encouraging soil to release more carbon, further increasing the greenhouse effect and outweighing much of the effort put into reducing emissions.
This to me just reflects the urgency of the problem. We are […]