Carbon Footprints

Radio New Zealand informs us Christchurch sells carbon credits for $3 million.
The Christchurch City Council has sold its carbon credits to British Gas for $NZ3 million.
The 200,000 credits were awarded to the Council by the Government in 2004 through the Projects to Reduce Emissions Programme - under the Kyoto Protocol.
The council had devised a way [...]

In the UK The Guardian is saying Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial.
In an unprecedented step, the Royal Society, Britain’s premier scientific academy, has written to the oil giant to demand that the company withdraws support for dozens of groups that have “misrepresented the science of climate change by outright denial of [...]

Phillip Adams’ editorial in The Australian reminds us that Global warming is no commie plot.
A few ideological fundamentalists from right-wing think tanks still believe that any climate change that may be occurring is not only natural but probably beneficial. However, their endless recycling of the views of the 2.5 scientists on Earth who think the [...]

In the UK The Guardian is running part 1 of a series of extracts from George Monbiot’s new book, Heat. The first part is called The denial industry.
The oil giant ExxonMobil gives money to scores of organisations that claim the science on global warming is inconclusive - which it isn’t. It’s a strategy that [...]

In the UK The Independent is warning us World’s leading companies lack plan on climate change.
Most of the world’s 500 biggest companies have no programme in place, with explicit targets, to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases, despite mounting evidence that the earth is heading towards environmental catastrophe.
Among the worst performers in the research, which [...]

We get a lot of email at Carbon Planet, almost all of it encouraging, but some of it raises interesting objections to the whole concept of carbon credits. Take this one, sent in via our feedback form but without a valid email address.
You are shit. Scams like this diminish the reputation and value [...]

Climate Change is Killing Us All. Graffiti on the Esso garage on Lower Bristol Road, Bath.
Originally uploaded to Flickr by Dan Pope.

Technorati Tags: climate change, eco, environment, Esso, genocide, global warming, Oil Industry, UK

In Australia The Canberra Times is has a feature article Our melting mountain.
ASK ALPINE ecologist Dr Ken Green about this year’s snow season in Mt Kosciuszko National Park, and his assessment is bluntly succinct.
“It never really got started. There’s just no snow up there in the back country,” he says. “It staggered from one shallow [...]

Also in the UK, The Guardian is saying Warning: bigger carbon cut needed to avoid disaster.
Leading researchers say government has misled public and call for 90% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050
In the first big study of what households, business and government may have to do to cut carbon emissions, the leading climate change research [...]

In the UK The Independent is warning Massive surge in disappearance of Arctic sea ice sparks global warning.
Arctic meltdown is speeding up… sea ice is vanishing faster than ever before… polar bears face extinction… and America’s top climate scientist warns we only have a decade to save the planet
The melting of the sea ice in [...]