Carbon Footprints

At noon today AEST Australian Prime Minister Julian Gillard announced the details of her government’s carbon pollution pricing scheme, saying “The science is in, we know that our climate is changing.” Here’s the main points.

A starting price of $23 per tonne of ‘carbon pollution’ (measured as CO2 equivalent) to be paid by the 500 [...]

Operation: Coolenation® is the primary school education resource that teaches the science of climate change to younger kids, and their teachers. In the video above, Operation: Coolenation programme manager, Pearl Tassell, introduces the programme.
Find out more from cooleantion.com, or check out the facebook page or follow @coolenation on Twitter. — DS

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Australian news service, Crikey has a story today Carbon to take economy’s breath away by 2015 which makes a very interesting point:
The Potsdam Institute research says that, if we are to have a reasonable chance of containing global warming to within 2 degrees, we only have a “budget” of 890 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions. [...]

In her first speech as Australian Prime Minister, the nation’s first female Prime Minister vowed to re-prosecute the case for a price on Carbon..
This is very encouraging news. Since the Rudd Government decided to shy-away from its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, it has been punished in the polls for its perceived spinelessness. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The climate is changing and human activity is almost certainly to blame. That’s the conclusion of a new report called State of the climate just released by the Australian CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology.
This snapshot provides observations and analysis of Australia’s climate and the factors that influence it. Two organisations, CSIRO and the [...]

The US based media watchdog group Media Matters has posted a story “Reminder to media: Claims about CRU emails were debunked” that explains that not only were the so-called ‘Climategate’ emails utterly debunked, but that the media were complicit in inflating the scandal.
Media outlets have referenced the emails apparently stolen from University of East Anglia’s [...]

Late last year Carbon Planet published a couple of White Papers on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation. One of those papers gave an overview of the history of REDD policy to date. The video above summarises that into a short timeline for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy — DS

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