Carbon Footprints

The North American Media Matters Action Network is reporting that Du Pont, Limbaugh distorted scientific research to downplay global warming.
Wall Street Journal columnist Pete Du Pont claimed that carbon dioxide is “not a pollutant” and repeatedly cited a misleading, industry-funded study on climate change to prove that the “truth about ‘global warming’ is much less [...]

South Mississippi’s Sun Herald is saying Now it’s up to you.
NOAA [the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] released its predictions for the 2006 season, and forecasters are predicting up to 16 named storms, with as many as 10 becoming hurricanes and up to six of those becoming Category 3 or above.
“I would like to [...]

Reuters’ AlertNet are running a story, Australian study says global warming speeding up.
“The impacts of a changing climate are beginning to emerge,” said the report, titled Stronger Evidence But New Challenges: Climate Change Science 2001-2005, adding that evidence of warming was becoming easier to observe.
“High temperature extremes, such as the August 2003 heatwave in central [...]

Melbourne’s The Age is running a story titled Insurers take cover with global warming risks.
Bruce Thomas, a sustainability expert with reinsurer Swiss Re, told The Age he expected Australia to follow other countries where insurance had taken account of the effects of global warming.
“There are certain amounts of warming that are already built into the [...]

The UK’s Telegraph is reporting that the Government may auction carbon credits.
The government is considering plans to stage an auction of carbon credits that could raise hundreds of millions or even billions of pounds from industry as part of a shake-up of Britain’s role in the €50bn (£34bn) EU emissions trading scheme.
The market for carbon [...]

Today on Bloomberg, Global Warming Hurts Spain’s Vineyards, Forces Vintners to Move.
Global warming is killing vineyards in southern Spain, threatening a 2 billion-euro ($2.4 billion) wine industry and forcing grape growers to move to cooler climes of the Pyrenees.
Any increase in temperature in Spain may make it impossible to produce wine in lower areas, according [...]

David Attenborough is interviewed in London’s Sunday Times in a story headlined It’s serious – Attenborough says stop climate change.
[David] Attenborough had remained silent on the subject of global warming during the debate on its validity. “I was very sceptical,” he admits. His outlook changed when climatologists showed him graphs linking the increase of carbon [...]

Reuters are reporting Clinton says must “get off our butts” to stop warming.
Former President Bill Clinton said on Saturday global warming is a greater threat to the future than terrorism and that the United States and other countries must “get off our butts” and do something about it.
“Climate change is more remote than terror but [...]

Jon Stewart, of The Late Show interviews the author of “Winds of Change,” a book about climate change and the destruction of civilisations.

Both serious and yet quite funny. Enjoy — DS

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The UK based Campaign against Climate Change group is holding their latest annual conference (PDF) on Climate Change in London Saturday 3 June 2006. And its free to attend.
Plenary Speaker Session: (confirmed speakers)
Caroline Lucas MEP (Green Party),
Norman Baker MP (Senior Lib Dem Environment spokesperson)
Mark Lynas (author and ‘climate’ journalist)
George Marshall (Co-director COIN – Climate [...]