From The Guardian in the UK: I was gagged over climate change, says scientist
A former government scientist in Australia claims officials stopped him raising concerns about climate change.
Graeme Pearman, former climate director for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, an independent body funded by the government, says he was prevented from speaking about the [...]
We are pleased to announce the new look Carbon Planet website. When we started Carbon Planet we spent most of the first few years working out the regulatory details and finding sources of Carbon Credits we could actually retail. When we launched our first functioning website last year it was all very bare [...]
From the Globe and Mail: World at its warmest of past 1,200 years, researchers show
The last part of the 20th century is considered by many scientists to be the warmest period since modern record-keeping began around the 1850s, but new research indicates the era is even more remarkable.
The warmth in which the Northern Hemisphere has [...]
It’s all wind wind wind today. First up: First and biggest wind farm for South Australia
South Australia’s first ever wind farm is being constructed at Starfish Hill by Danish company NEG Micon for the electricity corporation Tarong Energy.
The 35.5MW Starfish Hill wind farm plant will comprise of 23 wind turbines and will be the [...]
From the Mercury News: Administration backs off Bush’s vow to reduce Mideast oil imports
One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America’s dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday that the president didn’t mean it literally.
What the president meant, [...]
From the BBC news: Smaller firms could trade carbon
Small and medium-sized firms may face pollution limits in the UK’s drive to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is considering a scheme for the companies to be allocated a ration of permits to emit CO2.
If they overshoot their ration, the firms [...]
From CNN: Backlash at GE
In the last year or so, [Jeff] Immelt [the chairman and CEO of General Electric] and GE have become the unlikely darlings of the environmental movement. GE promotes solar and wind power and it agreed, at long last, to clean up toxic chemicals that it dumped into the Hudson River years [...]
In the Guardian today: America must break its addiction to oil, says Bush
President George Bush has admitted the US is “addicted to oil” but pledged to reduce its dependence on Middle East imports by three quarters by 2025, largely through the development of ethanol fuel for cars derived from wood chips, vegetable matter and grass.”By [...]
The Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Accounting have provided this Tree Carbon Calculator
With [their] tree carbon calculator, you can make a simple measurement of a tree on your property, in your school, or down at your local park, and be given an estimate of just how much carbon is stored in that tree.
Also on [...]
Did you know?
The carbon emitted per passenger [on a flight from London to Sydney] is equivalent to a mini driving around the world 640 times or the weight of four Indian elephants.
Or so says this interesting website that claims to show how much CO2 typical flights to various parts of the world pump into the [...]