Carbon Footprints

Carbon Planet’s primary schools programme, Operation:Coolenation® scored a visit yesterday from Mel Hawksley and Kim Oliver, two Bachelor of Education students from the University of South Australia, who wanted to experience first hand a day in the life of the Cooelnation project. They had this to say:
As University of South Australia students coming to [...]

The Australian Government has shelved plans for a carbon pollution reduction scheme, preferring to wait and see what the rest of the world might or might not do. In November last year Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said:
When you strip away all the political rhetoric, all the political excuses, there are two stark choices: action or [...]

Protect the environment or I’ll f*#%’n kill you!
Frustrated media mogul Ted Turner becomes Captain Planet and takes direct action. Hilarious. — DS

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In the UK The Guardian has explained, in a story “Iceland volcano gives warming world chance to debunk climate sceptic myths” that the oft-repeated notion that human CO2 emissions are trivial compared to natural volcanic activity is, well, a load of cobblers.
Here, for example, is what Plimer wrote on Australia’s ABC Network website last August:
The [...]

Wow I just reduced carbon emissions in the UK by 45% from current levels. How? Well I closed all its coal fired power stations, and then closed oil and gas fired power too. I shut half of the UK’s nuclear reactors and built some massive solar and offshore wind farms. I [...]