Carbon Footprints

I was invited to give a speech on carbon emissions auditing at this year’s Climate Change Accounting, Taxation and Reporting Summit in Sydney, Australia. The above video was shot on a tiny little digital still camera so the quality is not perfect, but you get the idea. I’ll be giving pretty much the [...]

Melbourne newspaper The Age is running a story by climate denialista Bob Carter called Wong’s climate paper clouded with mistakes in which he cherry picks words, disputes consensus opinions on climate science and rounds up his same old tired rhetoric to have a go at Climate Change Minister Wong’s recently released ‘Green Paper’ on Carbon [...]

The small business section of the Sydney Morning Herald is reporting Be alert, SMEs told on emissions.
Small and medium businesses will be “seriously disadvantaged” if they expect to avoid the impact of the Federal Government’s emissions trading scheme.
The Australian Institute of Management issued the warning after the release of the Government’s green paper on its [...]

I admire Arnie’s straightforward approach to these problems. — DS

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In Australia Melbourne’s The Age is reporting Nelson, Abbott defy party line on warming.
THE split in the Opposition over emissions trading has widened, with Brendan Nelson sticking to the line that Australia must not go it alone and frontbencher Tony Abbott backing him.
On the other side of the Liberal divide, arguing that Australia should start [...]

News for Nerds website Slashdot is reporting Researchers Improve Solar Cell Performance.
Researchers at MIT have improved solar collectors using dyes. They just increased their performance results by a factor of 4. These paint-on materials can increase the power obtained from existing solar cells by a factor of over 40 without needing to track the [...]

Ross Garnaut was in Adelaide the other day to launch the latest draft of the Garnaut Review. He addresses questions on dissenters in the climate science ranks, and Australia’s at risk being a drag on the progress of the rest of the world rather than being the leader some are complaining about. He [...]

The UK’s The Guardian is reporting Blowing the whistle on climate change.
In a letter (pdf) made public this week, former EPA associate deputy administrator Jason Burnett indicated that both the office of the vice-president and the White House Council on Environmental Quality have directly attempted to censor discussions of the consequences that global warming poses [...]

According to the MSNBC Wire Services, Argentine glacier ruptures in rare breakup for cold of winter.
Argentina - Park officials say one of Argentina’s most famous glaciers has begun a rare winter rupture.
Carlos Corvalan is director of the country’s Glacier National Park. He says there is no record of such an ice break during the southern [...]

It’s good to see right-wing commentators like Piers Ackerman in the Sunday Telegraph can keep their line consistent (google context) as the gap yawns between their reality, where burning fossil fuels actually helps the planet and oil companies are everyone’s friends, and everyone else’s realities. Here’s Ackerman on yesterday’s Garnaut release:
[Garnaut's] report is [...]