CBC News is reporting on complaints of alleged sauciness, saying Critics want Ontario to ‘Flick Off’ campaign.
Opposition parties are blasting the Ontario government for supporting a campaign aimed at getting young people to cut energy use and suggestively titled “Flick Off.”
Critics don’t like the campaign’s play on words. The campaign’s website uses such phrases as […]
In Political Affairs‘ Letters to the Editor section thus week they were asked,
Dear EarthTalk: Did Exxon/Mobil really pay scientists and economists to write articles trying to de-bunk global warming? — Rosemary R., via e-mail
I’ll reprint their reply in full here as it summs up the situation so well.
A February 2007 report in the British […]
NineMSN is reporting Conserve your toilet paper: Sheryl Crow.
Sheryl Crow is suggesting a bottom-up solution to wipe away global warming: limit each trip to the bathroom to one piece of toilet paper, according to a statement on the rocker’s website.
Crow said she had spent most of an environmental tour of US college campuses thinking of […]
In the UK The Guardian has obtained a copy of a critical new UN report spelling out its strategy to reverse climate change. The UN is saying we have the money and know-how to stop global warming.
Global climate change experts will this week lay out a detailed plan to save the planet from the catastrophic […]
South Australia as seen in Google Earth
Reuters, via in this case AlertNet are telling us Australia drought is climate change warning -UK.
Drought-hit Australia may offer a warning of how climate change threatens core human needs, as the continent’s food bowl faces the prospect of having irrigation cut off, Britain’s climate change ambassador said.
Canberra has said […]
Technology Review is reporting on a fantastic new gadget Making Gasoline from Carbon Dioxide.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), recently demonstrated that light absorbed and converted into electricity by a silicon electrode can help drive a reaction that converts carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide and oxygen. Carbon monoxide is a valuable commodity […]
It’s official! Yahoo! News is reporting that Mock metal group Spinal Tap to reunite to raise awareness of climate change.
The mock heavy metal group immortalized in the 1984 mockumentary, “This is Spinal Tap,” will reunite for a performance at Wembley Stadium in London as part of the Live Earth concerts scheduled worldwide for July […]
Murdoch roundup site news.com.au is saying Fears jet ‘flight guilt’ hitting Aussie tourism.
AUSTRALIA is concerned that growing guilt over the impact of jet flights on global warming could hit the country’s multi-billion-dollar tourism industry, officials said.
“Tourism is a $75 billion dollar industry employing more than half a million Australians and is dependent upon a sustainable […]
Californian Governer, Arnold Schwarzenegger has delivered a terriffic speech at Georgetown University as part of the Georgetown University Environmental Conference.
I believe the environmental movement is in the midst of redefining itself as something more modern, more confident, and more positive. As governor, I talk to scientists in our universities, I talk to CEOs […]
From The Canadian, Catastrophic Climate change very evident for travellers to Argentina.
Global warming is a subject that is never far from the news, and yet there are very few places on the planet where evidence of climate change can be so clearly seen as in the ice fields of the south Andies in Argentina and […]