Carbon Footprints

It seems that a combination of global warming, Google Earth and Facebook is leading to british teens invading people’s backyard pools! The Mail on Sunday reported The Google Earth gatecrashers who take uninvited dips in home-owners’ swimming pools, saying:
Would-be revellers are using satellite images on the internet to find houses with swimming pools - [...]

If you happen to be in London over the next few weeks check out Flooded London at the Medcalf Gallery in Clerkenwell.
Medcalf Gallery in Clerkenwell presenting a series of images depicting Squint Opera’s long-term view of how London’s population has adapted to raised sea levels. The general scenario is set 80 or so years into [...]

It’s official! Carbon Planet’s operations and services have been officially certified as Greenhouse Friendly™ by the Australian federal Department of Climate Change. What does this mean?
Products and services which are certified as Greenhouse Friendly™ are eligible to be labeled with the Greenhouse Friendly™ Certification Logo.
Under a rigorous certification process based on the principles [...]

I was saddened, but hardly surprised to read Nelson warns Coalition may not back Rudd on climate change in this morning’s The Age.
[Australian] opposition Leader Brendan Nelson has flagged a looming confrontation with the Rudd Government on climate change, saying there is “a high probability” that the Coalition will oppose the Government’s blueprint to tackle [...]

You have to laugh sometimes. — DS

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The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting We’re toast if we don’t stop global warming.
Exactly 20 years after warning America about global warming, a top NASA scientist says the situation has got so bad that the world’s only hope is drastic action.
James Hansen told US Congress today that the world has long passed the “dangerous level” [...]

Here’s an alarmist piece of nonsense for you. Households may be worse off with carbon trading: report.
A report for the Climate Institute shows that five years into a carbon emissions trading scheme an average household could be $200 a year worse off.
What’s that $200 in 2013 worth in today’s money? About $150 or [...]

The above is an excerpt is from the 1958 educational documentary “Unchained Goddess” directed and produced by the legendary Frank Capra for Bell Labs for their television program “The Bell Telephone Hour.” The film went on to become a staple of middle school science classrooms across the United States for decades.
The science of climate change [...]

In this issue we include feature articles:

The lowdown on Biofuels
The Hummer vs Prius Debate
Outrageous Wasters - a special article from our co-founder Dr Ross Williams

Plus our regular features:

Profile of a planet saving superhero - Meredith Henderson
Profile of a newly sustainable business - Caravan Pictures
Useful tips for saving the planet
How to talk to a climate skeptic

And [...]

The Google Earth Blog has a great post; Disappearing Forests Google Earth Visualizations.
An excellent set of 3D visualizations has been added to the Google Earth Outreach Showcase. The visualizations show the state of forests around the world by country. The world has lost close to half of its forests already today, and the continued high [...]