The South African Independent is reporting Merkel: Global warming battle means sacrifice.
Nations must be ready to make economic sacrifices to fight global warming, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday.
Evidence of climate change is “now unequivocal” and even business leaders, including in the United States, are recognising it as a “real challenge for humanity”, Merkel […]
This graphic from Smart Skies depicts the air traffic leaving Miami after the 2007 Superbowl. Air travel is the most polluting activity we humans undertake, and those little corporate jets, marked in pink, chew through far more fuel per person than the commercial jets in green. — DS
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I’ve made no secret of our love of Apple’s computers. Indeed we have managed to achieve fabulous carbon emissions savings by using software like iChat to hold virtual meetings in lieu of travelling. Well Apple were impressed it seems and wrote up a fabulous 4 page case study on our business. Mac Computing […]
Okay so Kian over at Eco-Chick didn’t find Sarah Silverman’s “A Very Convenient Truth” so funny, but I really think it’s important to retain both a sense of humour, and a sense of perspective. Sarah uses humour to get across the same points as Gore, using the same footage, but is utterly lampooning herself […]
Every so often we are contacted by people, mostly well meaning, but sometimes a little cranky. This question from someone identifying themselves as Paul is typical:
On 6 February 2007 5:10:03 PM Paul wrote
Seems to me you’re taking advantage of an ever increasingly popular THEORY in order to make a few bucks. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml? xml=/news/2004/07/18/wsun18.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/07/18/ixnewstop.html […]
Reuters is reporting All England schools to see Al Gore climate film.
The government will distribute Al Gore’s dramatic global warming film to all secondary schools in England in its fight to tackle the climate crisis, Environment Minister David Miliband said on Friday.
The announcement came as a panel of the world’s top scientists issued a new […]
I never thought I’d find myself agreeing with so-called ’shock-jock’ and conservative columnist Andrew Bolt but I just read his article in Melbourne’s Herald Sun, Warming to a religion.
SCARIER than global warming is that even — even? — our top academics exaggerate so wildly about it.
No, I’m not talking again about Tim Flannery, our Australian […]
Climate change denying shills including the very sad and deluded David Bellamy will be handing out their own watered-down version of the new IPCC report on Monday 5 Feb 2007 at the Atrium Restaurant, just over the road from Parliament House in London at 10am. (countdown)
They are beefing up security and trying to prevent all […]
I used to live in Amsterdam and always loved the Euronews, a much better, balanced news service than any other english language news services on TV. — DS
Technorati Tags: climate change, emissions reduction, Euronews, global warming, IPCC, sea level rise, sea levels
You’d have to have been living under a very big rock not to know that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just released its latest report on global warming (PDF), its causes and consequences.
The UK’s Guardian is carrying a good summary under the headline Worse than we thought.
Average temperatures could increase by […]