Carbon Footprints

In the UK The Times is reporting Carbon tax on airlines would never fly.
The European Parliament is to vote in July on a report from its Environment Committee which recommends that airlines be drafted into an emissions trading scheme, similar to the one that operates for European industry.
MEPs in the green camp want to [...]

The Montana based New West News is reporting Global Warming Emissions Jump 292 Percent in Rocky Mountains.
The Rocky Mountain region saw a 292 percent increase in carbon dioxide emissions between 1960 and 2001, the largest percentage increase of any other region in the country, according to a study released Tuesday by the Montana Public Interest [...]

There’s a long article in the New York Times headlined Next Victim of Warming: The Beaches.
According to a 2000 report by the Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, at least a quarter of the houses within 500 feet of the United States coast may be lost to rising seas by 2060. There were [...]

From the Danish Embassy website, Denmark Purchases Carbon Credits From Thailand.
Danish Ambassador to Thailand, Ulrik Helweg-Larsen, on behalf of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has signed a trade agreement with a Thai palm oil producing company from Suratthani, southern Province of Thailand, on purchase of carbon credits.
Carbon credits are traded as part of the [...]

The BBC is reporting Dry ice creates toughened glass.
A form of solid carbon dioxide that could be used to make ultra-hard glass or coatings for microelectronic devices has been discovered.
The material, named amorphous carbonia, was created by an Italian led team.
The scientists told the journal Nature that the material was always thought to be possible [...]

Podcast Science Friday tackles the question of the politicization of science in their latest show.
One pundit says the GOP has unleased a ‘perfect storm of science politicization and abuse.’ Another pundit says the left is to blame. Who is hijacking science? Join Ira and guests Chris Mooney and Tom Bethell square off on the question, [...]

The Carbon Free News site is reporting on a new Farming Carbon Credits project.
Four Indiana [USA] dairies, connected by family history and geography, have jointly signed an historic agreement with Environmental Credit Corp. (ECC) to create more than one million carbon credits from greenhouse gas-reducing projects. Each credit is equivalent to one metric ton of [...]

Over at the Common Sense Blog, Kit Smith rips into famed science-fiction writer Michael Crichton.
Jurassic Park was a standard techno-phobic cautionary tale about “playing God,” a la Frankenstein and Godzilla, but this time the evil culprit was cloning, and shoddy cage construction. This type of puritanical anti-science message has been a part of American fiction [...]

There’s an article in today’s Australian Online Opinion by Cam Walker, National Liaison Officer for Friends of the Earth Australia, asking Big brother, deputy sheriff or responsible neighbour?
[Australian] Federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell noted that “climate change is having far reaching impacts globally and in our region” yet this is barely noticeable in terms of [...]

Canada’s The Globe and Mail is running a story Quebec unveils carbon tax.
Quebec plans to adopt tough vehicle emissions standards and will become the first [Canadian] province to levy a “carbon tax” on oil and gas companies as part of an ambitious plan to fight global warming.
The tax will raise about $200-million a year over [...]