Carbon Footprints

There’s a great mashup over at Australian tabloid blog The Punch, where they show the last month’s pattern of extreme weather anomalies using an interactive Google Map. See the originl story at “Australia’s scorching August”
View The Punch – August weather in a larger map
Weather records are often trivial matters, a question of a few tenths [...]

New Scientist is reporting, in a story “As Arctic Ocean warms, megatonnes of methane bubble up“, that one of the key tipping points we, and other climate science groups have been predicting for a long time is now actually happening.
Over 250 plumes of gas have been discovered bubbling up from the sea floor to the [...]

IT news service IT Brief is reporting that “Canon leads by example with green initiative“, having reduced its emissions in New Zealand by a massive 23% in the last year.
The result comes mostly from reductions in staff travel, utilities and third-party services. Of particular note, Canon reduced its air travel by 35% between 2007 and [...]

The United Nations Environment Programme has just released their landmark book, “Kick The Habit, A UN guide to climate neutrality”
“Addiction is a terrible thing. It consumes and controls us, makes us deny important truths and blinds us to the consequences of our actions. Our society is in the grip of a dangerous greenhouse gas habit.
The [...]

The Age of Stupid is a 90-minute film about climate change, set in the future, looking back at just how stupid we have been.
Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, Brassed Off) stars as a man living alone in the devasted world of 2055, looking back at archive footage from 2007 and [...]

Safe Climate Australia is a non-government organisation formed and steered by a foundation group of concerned scientists, community and business leaders with a shared understanding of the scientific and moral imperatives for emergency action to restore a safe climate.
It’s nothing if not ambitious.
Safe Climate Australia will build on a range of international innovation and [...]

Over at gadget site Gizmodo they are discussing a blog post by Ken Musgrave called “Why We Need a Globally-Recognized Unit of “Green”“, responding that “We May Need A Global Unit Of ‘Green’, But It Won’t Be Easy Or Clear”
Musgrave argues:
The designer had chosen bamboo to provide a suitable look while enhancing sustainability compared to [...]

In further sign of the Australian Government’s intention to make up for lost time, The Australian is reporting “Kevin Rudd signs global climate deal,” saying;
AUSTRALIA has signed off on a global deal to restrain global warming to two degrees which could mean Australia must do more to slash greenhouse gas emissions.
The leaders of 16 [...]

Melbourne’s The Age is asking “Is climate the new asbestos?“, saying “Directors of polluting industries should check their liability insurance.”
climate change litigation is shaping up as an issue that will tie up the judiciary, companies and politics worldwide for years. While other sectors of the global economy are bracing for the negative impact of government [...]

The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research has just released their latest ’synthesis’ report, titled “Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions”.
“We have covered new findings on climate science, climate impacts on society and the environment, and effective tools and approaches to deal with these challenges,” says Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute [...]