Carbon Footprints

The UK’s Guardian is reporting Brussels warns carmakers: meet targets to slash CO2 emissions or face tougher laws.
Car manufacturers were given a blunt warning yesterday from Brussels, which said companies would face stringent laws if they failed to abide by their commitment to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
European, Japanese and Korean carmakers were threatened with the [...]

The Houston Chronical is reporting World Bank: Climate Threatening Programs.
About one quarter of World Bank development programs may be at risk because of climate change, the organization warned Tuesday at an environmental summit.
Projects in small island states are already being affected because of rising sea levels and storm surges, which have affected the water supply [...]

In May 2006 New Scientist ran a story Climate change: Tearing the Earth apart?
All over the world evidence is stacking up that changes in global climate can and do affect the frequencies of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and catastrophic sea-floor landslides. Not only has this happened several times throughout Earth’s history, the evidence suggests that it [...]

Last night in Australia the government run TV station, The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, or ABC to its mates, screened a Four Corners special What Price Global Warming?. The show gave extended coverage to the Federal Government’s opposition to taking any real action to slow, let alone reverse CO2 emissions. The show explains clearly that [...]

The 2006 hurricane season is underway. Tropical storm Ernesto is now a category 1 hurricane, crossing Cuba and on route for Florida and the beleaguered city of New Orleans.
As Ernesto, the first hurricane of the 2006 season, crosses the Gulf of Mexico is it expected to pick up steam and hit the city as [...]

Tomorrow night at 9PM in the US the Discovery Channel is screening their premier of the two hour special Surviving Katrina.
Using a combination of news footage and home video, as well as dramatic reconstructions, the show recreates the buildup and landfall of Hurricane Katrina from the perspective of several survivors. The scenes showing [...]

I went along to a preview screening of An Inconvenient Truth tonight, obviously curious to see what has been dubbed by some as the “greatest slideshow on Earth”. Al Gore, who introduces himself as the former next US President, has been a passionate advocate of action in response to global warming for many decades. [...]

The UK’s Independent is running a story The green way to get to Australia.
When Barbara Haddrill was asked to be a bridesmaid at her friend’s wedding in Brisbane, she faced a dilemma: how to make the 10,000-mile journey without offending her environmental principles.
The ecology worker has decided that her planet-friendly principles prevent her from jumping [...]

The UK’s Independent is running a story BP targets green consumers with carbon-offset scheme for drivers.
BP will raise the stakes in the battle to be seen as the most environmentally friendly oil company today, launching a website which allows motorists to offset the carbon emissions from their car by donating money to the development of [...]

Now I know this is just ego-blogging but Carbon Planet made the news today. The Adelaide Advertiser, Adelaide’s only daily paper, is running a story on us, Carbon credit plan targets ‘greenies’. It’s on page 14 of the dead-tree edition for those of you living in Adelaide.
A GROUND-BREAKING Adelaide business has created a system [...]