Carbon Footprints

The Australian is reporting PM to look at global emissions trade.
AUSTRALIA could join a global emissions trading system as John Howard shifts ground on climate change.
[H]e put Australian industry on notice that it could face a pricing mechanism to reduce greenhouse emissions, as public sentiment hardens in favour of more urgent action.
This is fantastic news. [...]

In the UK The Guardian is saying O’Leary pooh-poohs green tax idea.
Ryanair has dismissed calls for green taxes on aviation as the “usual horseshit” and warned that extra levies on airlines will not put people off flying.
Michael O’Leary, chief executive of the low-cost carrier, also ruled out joining the EU carbon emissions trading scheme, seen [...]

Notorious Exxon shill Bob Carter is spewing his usual lies in The Australian again. His latest target, in an article titled British report the last hurrah of warmaholics, is naturally the recently released Stern Report into the economic impacts of global warming. Carter, and people like him, have made a career out of [...]

In the UK The Independent is highlighting hypocracy with the story PM’s vow to tackle global warming hit by plans to treble flights.
Britain’s airports are planning to treble the number of flights by 2030, despite the recent Stern report’s grave warnings about the environmental effects of expanding air travel in the UK.
From a third runway [...]

News aggregator The Free Internet Press is reporting Senators Tell Exxon To Stop Denying Global Warming Exists.
ExxonMobil should stop funding groups that have spread the idea that global warming is a myth and that try to influence policymakers to adopt that view, two senators said today in a letter to the oil company.
In their letter [...]

Said Hanrahan
“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,
In accents most forlorn,
Outside the church, ere Mass began,
One frosty Sunday morn.
The congregation stood about,
Coat-collars to the ears,
And talked of stock, and crops, and drought,
As it had done for years.
“It’s looking crook,” said Daniel Croke;
“Bedad, it’s cruke, me lad,
For [...]

South Africa’s Independent Online is running a story Drought-hit Australia battles climate change.
Australia is already feeling the heat from climate change with a five-year drought devastating rural life, severe early season wildfires and record unseasonal temperatures.
Every four days, a farmer commits suicide under the stress of failing crops, dying livestock and debt as the worst [...]