Carbon Footprints

From the Adelaide City Messenger 19 Oct 2006, page 13. Clive Stevens’ cartoon reproduced with permission of Messenger Newspapers. Thanks Clive. — DS

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Carbon Footprints is suffering a lack of updates right now for a couple of reasons I thought I should articulate. Firstup while in Sydney last week the home of our loyal system administrator, Jesse, was broken into and the thieves stole my Powerbook and iPod, as well as Jesse’s powerbook and also his wife’s [...]

The notoriously recalcitrant Australian Government steadfastly refuses to acknowledge that global warming is real. Climate Movement has put up an online petition so you can tell them you disagree. — DS

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The Times, one of the most conservative papers in the UK, is saying Thou shalt help to save the planet, Mothers’ Union tells its 3.6m flock.
The Mothers’ Union, a powerful Christian pressure group of 3.6 million members within the worldwide Anglican Communion, has issued its own Ten Commandments in a new drive to help the [...]

The Weather Channel has launched a new campaign One° that highlights the impacts of global warming and gathers together many of their climate change specials.
One Degree will leverage the trusted scientific resources of The Weather Channel. One Degree’s mission will be to present an open, balanced dialogue around the scientific facts concerning global climate change. [...]

In the UK The Guardian is running a story You feel better, but is your carbon offset just hot air? that points out that in the world of carbon credits and the various businesses that have emerged to offer carbon offsets there are sharks in the water.
Francis Sullivan, a carbon offset expert who led [...]

In The Guardian today Study warns of stark costs of failing to counter climate change as leaders meet.
Gordon Brown is about to publish a ground-breaking study which will warn the world that it faces paying multi-trillion pound economic costs if it does not move urgently to act on climate change.
The study, led by Sir Nicholas [...]

The Independent is saying Global warming devastates sea ice in Arctic Circle.
Sea ice in the Arctic last month melted to its second lowest monthly minimum in the 29-year record of satellite measurements.
“At this rate, the Arctic Ocean will have no ice in September by the year 2060,” said Julienne Strove, one of the NSIDC’s [US [...]

On 4 November 2006 the Global Climate Campaign is hosting its annual Walk Against Warming as part of the International Day of Action on Climate Change.
These demonstrations demand that world leaders take the urgent and resolute action we need to prevent the catastrophic destabilisation of global climate, so that the entire world community can move [...]