Carbon Footprints

Reuters is reporting on a recent speech by Nicholas Stern, he of the famed (in climate change circles anyway) Stern Review. Stern was quite explicit, saying the Risks of global warming greater than financial crisis.
“The risk consequences of ignoring climate change will be very much bigger than the consequences of ignoring risks in the [...]

in the USA, Time is reporting on The Public’s Dangerous Misunderstanding of Climate Change.
In a paper that came out Oct. 23 in Science, John Sterman — a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Sloan School of Management — wrote about asking 212 MIT grad students to give a rough idea how much governments need [...]

Ray Kurzweil is one of my favourite technological optimists. This talk, given at the astounding TED conference, is about the power of doubling and just how quickly huge technological leaps can disrupt the status-quo and change the world in what seems like the blink of an eye. See Mr Kurzweil’s essay on the [...]

In the words of the poet known as 50 cent, “It’s getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes.” The Arctic has been described by many as the ‘canary in the coal mine’, and right now that bird is tweeting. We all know the action that needs to be taken. [...]

The Associated Press is reporting EU lawmakers back climate change goals:
EU lawmakers backed the bloc’s goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 despite concerns in many countries about the financial impact on industries already struggling with the economic downturn.
The European Parliament also passed a bill Wednesday to promote greener transport by obliging public authorities, [...]

The 2008 Carbon Market Expo Australasia, being held at the Gold Coast Convention and Entertainment Centre on 30-31 October (ie next week) is shaping up to be huge. Carbon Planet people will be there, staffing a stand (see the floor plan) and I am speaking on the future of the Voluntary Market as part [...]

I was invited by SARDI, the South Australian Research and Development and something starting with I, to give a speech on climate change, the carbon economy and what people can do in their own offices to be more efficient. The above movie is the slideshow for the talk. — DS

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The UK’s The Daily Telegraph is explaining that Climate change is ‘faster and more extreme’ than feared:
Climate change is happening much faster than the world’s best scientists predicted and will wreak havoc unless action is taken on a global scale, a new report warns.

The bleak report from WWF - formerly the World Wildlife Fund - [...]

The influential US paper the Christian Science Monitor has a review of anthropologist Brian Fagan’s new book; Climate change’s most deadly threat: drought.
While vineyards are being planned for northern England, millions of residents around desiccated Atlanta are praying for enough rain to flow through their taps.
Brian Fagan believes climate is not merely a backdrop to [...]

The New Yorker is running an editorial on the US Presidential Race,The Choice, comparing the candidates on variety of issues. On the issue of global warming they had this to say:
On energy and global warming, Obama offers a set of forceful proposals. He supports a cap-and-trade program to reduce America’s carbon emissions by [...]