Carbon Footprints

A pair of Great Tits

The BBC is reporting some good news on the climate for a change in a story Great tits cope well with warming.
Researchers found that great tits are laying eggs earlier in the spring than they used to, keeping step with the earlier emergence of caterpillars.
Writing in the journal Science, they point [...]

Australia’s Future Climate is quite well modeled and the results of that modeling have been made available online.:
Our future climate will depend on greenhouse gas emissions, so the regional projections are available for low, mid-range and high greenhouse gas emissions scenarios. These scenarios were developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and are [...]

On Wednesday I gave a talk at the 2008 Australian Carbon Trading Expo in Melbourne called “The Train is Leaving: Implications for Business of the new Carbon Constrained Economy,” which just so happens to be the title of the book I am currently writing. The slides above give you some idea of what I [...]

In April 2007, Professor Garnaut, a Professor of Economics in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University, was commissioned by the Australian States and Territories, and more recently the Commonwealth Government, to undertake a review examining the impact of climate change on the Australian economy and potential medium to [...]

There’s a sobering article in the Washington Post called It Happened to Him. It’s Happening to You.
Now we face the possibility of mass extinction event No. 6. No big killer asteroid is in sight. Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes are not of the scale to cause mass extinction. Yet recent studies show that troubling earlier projections [...]

Antarctic Ice as seen in Google Earth
There’s a story in the International Herald Tribune titled , citing a study published in last week’s Nature Geoscience that paints yet another gloomy picture.
Skeptics about global warming often point to Antarctica to show that Al Gore and others who worry about climate change have exaggerated the dangers greatly. [...]

On 18 January this year the Australian consumer watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission or simply the ACCC announced they were taking action against GM Holden over their Saab ‘green’ claims, alleging misleading and deceptive conduct and false representations concerning ‘green’ claims made in the advertising of Saab vehicles.
The ACCC alleges that the Saab [...]

The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting California sues EPA over refusal to let state limit greenhouse gases.
The Environmental Protection Agency “has done nothing at the national level to curb greenhouse gases, and now it has wrongfully and illegally blocked California’s landmark tailpipe emissions standards,” Attorney General Jerry Brown said at a news conference announcing the [...]

5 year old Elanore was confused; wasn’t Santa real? I’m afraid not Elle, I explained gently. Santa is the first of many ticks we adults play on you kids. But you weren’t ’sposed to find that out until you were 7. Let’s not tell Anna said Elle and I agreed.
A man [...]

AFT is reporting on the final tense negotiations during the final hours of the Bali COP13 conference that concluded this weekend. Global warming pact set for 2009 after US backs down.
World climate negotiators set a 2009 deadline Saturday for a landmark treaty to fight global warming after two weeks of intense haggling led to [...]