Carbon Footprints

It’s good to see right-wing commentators like Piers Ackerman in the Sunday Telegraph can keep their line consistent (google context) as the gap yawns between their reality, where burning fossil fuels actually helps the planet and oil companies are everyone’s friends, and everyone else’s realities. Here’s Ackerman on yesterday’s Garnaut release:
[Garnaut's] report is [...]

Garnaut’s review, launched today at The National Press Club in Canberra, is simply titled the “Garnaut Climate Change Review - Draft Report, although there was, according to Prof Garnaut, a suggestion to call it “No Pain, No Rain.”
It’s the conclusion of his investigation that some very real risks can be mitigated by some very short-term [...]

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Tony Blair’s ‘Breaking The Climate Deadlock’ speech is a great speech. He’s much more casual now he’s not in office and his candour shines in this talk. He argues that the science is settled, we understand full well that it is the rise of the west that has been the cause [...]

It seems that a combination of global warming, Google Earth and Facebook is leading to british teens invading people’s backyard pools! The Mail on Sunday reported The Google Earth gatecrashers who take uninvited dips in home-owners’ swimming pools, saying:
Would-be revellers are using satellite images on the internet to find houses with swimming pools - [...]

If you happen to be in London over the next few weeks check out Flooded London at the Medcalf Gallery in Clerkenwell.
Medcalf Gallery in Clerkenwell presenting a series of images depicting Squint Opera’s long-term view of how London’s population has adapted to raised sea levels. The general scenario is set 80 or so years into [...]

I was saddened, but hardly surprised to read Nelson warns Coalition may not back Rudd on climate change in this morning’s The Age.
[Australian] opposition Leader Brendan Nelson has flagged a looming confrontation with the Rudd Government on climate change, saying there is “a high probability” that the Coalition will oppose the Government’s blueprint to tackle [...]

The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting We’re toast if we don’t stop global warming.
Exactly 20 years after warning America about global warming, a top NASA scientist says the situation has got so bad that the world’s only hope is drastic action.
James Hansen told US Congress today that the world has long passed the “dangerous level” [...]

The above is an excerpt is from the 1958 educational documentary “Unchained Goddess” directed and produced by the legendary Frank Capra for Bell Labs for their television program “The Bell Telephone Hour.” The film went on to become a staple of middle school science classrooms across the United States for decades.
The science of climate change [...]

The Google Earth Blog has a great post; Disappearing Forests Google Earth Visualizations.
An excellent set of 3D visualizations has been added to the Google Earth Outreach Showcase. The visualizations show the state of forests around the world by country. The world has lost close to half of its forests already today, and the continued high [...]

Professor Ross Garnaut, the man in charge of determining just how the Australian Emissions Trading Scheme should work, gave the 2008 Arndt Memorial Lecture on World Environment Day at the Australian National University in Canberra. His speech, Measuring the Immeasurable - The Costs and Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation has been widely reported, [...]