Carbon Footprints

There’s a story in the UK’s Independent warning that Carbon offsetting ‘can be harmful’.
People who join the new fashion for buying carbon offsets will be urged by the Government today to check what they are buying before they hand over the money. Some schemes may be doing environmental damage in the developing world without curbing [...]

Swiss news service SwissInfo is reporting Bush readies speech on ethanol, climate change.
U.S. President George W. Bush’s annual speech to Congress next week is likely to call for a massive increase in U.S. ethanol usage and tweak climate change policy while stopping short of mandatory emissions caps, sources familiar with White House plans said on [...]

Today is Carbon Planet’s 7th birthday. We started the company on 12 January 2000 with fairly modest aims and an even more modest clue about what it actually meant to offset carbon emissions. We spent 5 years working that out, negotiating with suppliers of carbon credits and talking to lots of people about [...]

In the UK The Guardian is saying Blair, Monday: I’m not offsetting carbon. Blair, yesterday: Er, I’ve had a rethink
Tony Blair tried last night to restore his green credentials by announcing that he would offset carbon emissions from his and his family’s holiday travel.
Downing Street made the concession after the two lobby briefings yesterday were [...]

Thanks to the WWF for this vid. — DS

Technorati Tags: climate change, disrupted nature, global warming, WWF

The UK’s Independent says World faces hottest year ever, as El Niño combines with global warming.
As the new year was ushered in with stormy conditions across the UK, the forecast for the next 12 months is of extreme global weather patterns which could bring drought to Indonesia and leave California under a deluge.
The warning, from [...]

The Sunday Times in the UK is reporting China chokes on a coal-fired boom.
A GREAT coal rush is under way across China on a scale not seen anywhere since the 19th century.
Its consequences have been detected half a world away in toxic clouds so big that they can seen from space, drifting across the Pacific [...]

In the UK’s The Guardian they are reporting Giant ice island breaks off Arctic shelf. [see wikipedia]
An ice island the size of a small city is adrift in the Arctic after breaking free from one of Canada’s largest ice shelves, scientists said today.
The ice island is 37 metres (120ft) thick and measures 9 miles by [...]