Carbon Footprints

Reuters is reporting World has 10-year window to act on climate: expert.
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – A leading U.S. climate researcher said on Wednesday the world has a 10-year window of opportunity to take decisive action on global warming and avert a weather catastrophe.
NASA scientist James Hansen, widely considered the doyen of American climate researchers, said [...]

It’s a cheap laugh I know, but the news is all pretty grim right now. But you can always count on Will Farrell to put the fun back in fundamentalism.
Almost my favourite line in this film is “It seems that liberals and tax-raisers are trying to make me look bad by using things [...]

Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph is saying Study acquits sun of climate change.
THE sun’s energy output has barely varied over the past 1000 years, raising chances that global warming has human rather than celestial causes, a study showed today.
Researchers from Germany, Switzerland and the United States found that the sun’s brightness varied by only 0.07 per [...]

The Independent is saying Centrica gives backing to £450m ‘clean energy’ fund.
Climate Change Capital, the specialist bank, has raised by far the largest private sector fund dedicated to investment in clean energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, with Centrica and two blue-chip pension funds among the investors.
The fund has raised [US]$830m (£450m) in just three [...]

South Africa’s Independent Online is reporting ‘We need real action on global warming’
It had become very clear that global climate change may hold far greater risks than previously believed, and the costs would be measured not only in dollars and species loss, but in human mortality.
This was said by Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk in [...]

The Independent is reporting Act now, says climate watchdog.
John Ashton – special representative for Margaret Beckett, the Foreign Secretary – warned that the costs of not curbing climate change and greenhouse gas emissions would lead to increasing conflicts around the world. The impacts of extreme climatic events in Africa and south Asia or the Middle [...]

The Independent has a story World must wake up to the dangers of biofuels, head of Kew Gardens warns.
The world should wake up to the dangers of the mass production of biofuels, which are increasingly seen as a major solution to global warming, according to Professor Sir Peter Crane, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, [...]

The Freeport News is saying The Bahamas prepares for global warming.
Low lying Small Island States like The Bahamas will suffer the most if global warming continues due to increased amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (GHGs), says Arthur Rolle, Director of Meteorology and Chairman of the Climate Change Committee (CCC).
As a result, Rolle [...]

The Washington Post is telling is UN Climate Chief Praises Warming Actions.
American states and private companies are adopting laudable initiatives on global warming, but the United States will lag behind Europe for years to come, the new U.N. climate chief said Friday.
In an interview four days after taking office as head of the U.N.’s climate [...]

Over at HybridCar.com they have announced Ford Delivers Mariner Hybrid Presidential Edition to President Clinton
Bill Clinton is promoting the greener mile in the latest of a string of environmental initiative being undertaken by the Former President. Gone is the secret service-issued SUV, to be replaced by the more fuel efficient Ford Mercury Mariner Hybrid SUV. [...]