Carbon Footprints

The Toronto Sun is reporting in a story Window of Opportunity that US President Obama has just four years to turn climate change around.
“(Obama’s) four-year administration offers the world a last chance to get things right,” said James Hansen [NASA's top climate scientist, director of the Goddard Institute for Space and an adjunct professor of [...]

“We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf and burning it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that has to change.”

Nobel Prize winner, former US Vice-President and long-term climate activist Al Gore addressed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the strong links between the climate crisis, the economic [...]

Reuters is reporting Antarctic ice shelf set to collapse due to warming.
“We’ve come to the Wilkins Ice Shelf to see its final death throes,” David Vaughan, a glaciologist at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), told Reuters after the first — and probably last — plane landed near the narrowest part of the ice.
“It really could [...]

The Australian National University’s Dr Timothy Barrows has participated in a wide-ranging study on the climate change effects during the last ice age.
“During the last Ice Age – around 20,000 years ago – sea surface temperature was as much as 10 degrees colder than present and icebergs would have been regular visitors to the southern [...]

Business research company McKinsey have just released a detailed report into the Australian Cost Curve for GHG Reduction where they make 3 major findings.

A significant reduction in Australian GHG emissions is achievable — 30 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and 60 percent by 2030 without major technological breakthroughs or lifestyle changes.
Reducing emissions is affordable—with [...]

There’s a story in The Hindu today, White paint solution to climate change, which while the headline is not entirely true, the idea is sound I think.
Hashem Akbari has a vision of a shiny, happy world. He sees polished roads and cities that gleam in the sunlight. Rooftops are bright and pavements light. Akbari wants [...]

The Environment News Service is reporting Without Delay: Congress to Fast-Track Climate Legislation.
WASHINGTON, DC, January 15, 2009 (ENS) – The heads of some of America’s largest corporations together with the leaders of five of the country’s largest environmental groups today presented a joint plan to Congress for climate protection legislation. Congressional Democrats met their call [...]

The UK’s The Guardian is drawing attention to the latest Worldwatch Institute’s ‘The State of the World 2009‘ report in an article Emission impossible.
The much-respected Washington DC-based Worldwatch Institute has just published The State of the World 2009, the 26th edition of its annual status report into the planet’s environmental health. You won’t be surprised [...]