Carbon Footprints

New Scientist is warning us ‘One degree and we’re done for’.
“Further global warming of 1°C defines a critical threshold. Beyond that we will likely see changes that make Earth a different planet than the one we know.”
So says Jim Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.
Another decade of business-as-usual carbon [...]

In the Uk, The Guardian is saying Pundits who contest climate change should tell us who is paying them.
Covert lobbying, in the UK as well as the US, has severely set back efforts to combat the world’s biggest problem.
The campaign of dissuasion funded by Exxon and the tobacco company Philip Morris has been devastatingly effective. [...]

The Washington Post is saying Schwarzenegger, Bloomberg team on climate change.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg agreed on Thursday to work together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions because the Republicans said they cannot wait for the Bush administration to take action on climate change.
“We don’t wait for the federal government [...]

The BBC News is reporting Branson makes $3bn climate pledge.
Sir Richard Branson is to invest $3bn (£1.6bn) to fight global warming.
The Virgin boss said he would commit all profits from his travel firms, such as airline Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Trains, over the next 10 years.
“We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal [...]

Reuters is reporting Act now on climate change, business leaders told.
Business leaders must tackle climate change now before it is too late and not leave the issue to the environmental lobby, an executive at one of Germany’s leading utilities told a conference on Wednesday.
Speaking at a meeting to explore what businesses can do to minimize [...]

In the UK, The Guardian’s George Monbiot is saying The threat is from those who accept climate change, not those who deny it.
If the biosphere is ruined it will be done by people who know that emissions must be cut – but refuse to alter the way they live.
Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks [...]

Yahoo News is relaying Scientists shocked as Arctic polar route emerges.
European scientists voiced shock as they showed pictures which showed Arctic ice cover had disappeared so much last month that a ship could sail unhindered from Europe’s most northerly outpost to the North Pole itself.
The satellite images were acquired from August 23 to 25 by [...]

Reuters is running a story California sues carmakers over global warming.
California sued six of the world’s largest automakers over global warming on Wednesday, charging that greenhouse gases from their vehicles have caused billions of dollars in damages.
The lawsuit is the first of its kind to seek to hold manufacturers liable for the damages caused by [...]

Seed Magazine is calling FREE DSCOVR!.
At a time when the Earth’s climate is at the top of practically every nation’s agenda, it might seem perplexing that there’s a $100 million, fully completed climate-sensing satellite stored in a warehouse in Maryland.
The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) was supposed to be delivered five years ago to the [...]

United Press International has a story Aspen sunflower warns of global warming.
University of Maryland Biology Professor David Inouye says the buds of aspen sunflowers have been killed by frost in each of the past seven years, meaning they aren’t producing flowers, and, therefore, not producing seeds.
Inouye says the increasing frequency of frost damage appears to [...]