Carbon Footprints

In The Guardian today, Good news: carbon offsetting makes a real difference to real people.
It’s not often you hear of a good news story when it comes to the issue of climate change, but last night I heard of 19. At the Ashden Awards for sustainable energy, the judges had selected 19 finalists from 150 [...]

The carbon emissions associated with flying are an increasingly hot issue.
In today’s Sydney Morning Herald blog there is a post Our flying footprint
With the environmental impact of flying such a hot issue we can expect the cost of flying to keep rising as the planet gets warmer. We already pay a litany of taxes, handling [...]

Online zine Salon is running an excellent article Did Al get the science right? that looks into the criticisms of Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth.
The usual oil industry flacks and dogmatic skeptics have surfaced to denounce Al Gore’s global warming movie. But climate scientists say that, basically, he got it right.
It’s a long article [...]

The UK technology paper The Register is reporting UK homes to be rated for energy efficiency.
From June next year, all homes in England and Wales must be given an energy efficiency rating before they can be sold. The government says the move, which is in line with European agreements, will help the UK reduce its [...]

There’s another climate change film due out soon called The Great Warming, narrated by Keanu Reeves and Alanis Morissette.
We are living at the dawn of a new epoch. Year by year, degree by degree, Earth is growing warmer… a legacy of the Industrial Revolution, population growth, and our addiction to technology, speed and power.
Just [...]

The Free Internet Press is reporting Global Warming ‘Threat To Asia Pacific Security’.
Rapid global warming poses a variety of security threats to the Asia Pacific region that have been “seriously underestimated,” according to a new study.
Rising sea levels, for example, could threaten heavily urbanized parts of Asia, such as China’s Yellow and Yangzi River deltas, [...]

The Mercury News is running a story, Schwarzenegger calls on Western governors to fight global warming.
Western states must work together to reduce greenhouse gasses in the fight against global warming, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Sunday at the annual meeting of the Western Governors’ Association.
“We are long past the time when we can just talk [...]

In the UK’s Guardian today, Gardeners can slow climate change
Britain’s gardeners are being asked to open up their borders, lawns and shrubs to help tackle the world’s greatest environmental threat: climate change.
Experts have long warned that nature reserves will not help protect threatened species because habitats will shift with the weather. Now they are appealing [...]

The BBC is running a story, Britain appoints climate diplomat.
The UK has appointed a special representative on climate change.
John Ashton, a career diplomat and government adviser, will be charged with building new international partnerships to tackle climate change.
A science graduate, Mr Ashton has spent most of his career in the diplomatic service and the Foreign [...]

Seen in The Onion, Critics Blast Al Gore’s Documentary As ‘Realistic’.
The Al Gore-produced global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth is being panned by critics nationwide who claim the 90-plus minute environmental film is “too disturbingly realistic and well-researched to enjoy.
This film just can’t stop getting press at the moment. This film has the right allies [...]