Carbon Footprints

Part three of Al Gore’s 2009 presentation to AAAS, from YouTube
Scientific American is reporting from the American Association for the Advancement of Science that “At AAAS, Al Gore urges scientists to get involved in climate change debate“.
Fresh from adding a Grammy to his mantle Sunday, former vice president Al Gore told scientists gathered here for [...]

The Associated Press is reporting Climate warming gases rising faster than expected.
Despite widespread concern over global warming, humans are adding carbon to the atmosphere even faster than in the 1990s, researchers warned Saturday.
Carbon dioxide and other gases added to the air by industrial and other activities have been blamed for rising temperatures, increasing worries about [...]

AFP is reporting “Windstorms batter France, Britain on flood alert“, and highlights that
Hurricane-force gusts of up to 140 kilometres (87 miles) per hour battered France’s west coast late Monday as the second major storm in two weeks barrelled in from the Atlantic.
Bracing for severe winds, authorities shut down Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports [...]

Photo “Fire over the ridge at dusk” by Kath Knight, used with permission.
In the wake of the most devestating natural disaster to ever hit Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald is saying what many of us are thinking, writing “Scientists warned us this was going to happen“.
The fires of Saturday were not “once in 1000 years” [...]

The Toronto Sun is reporting in a story Window of Opportunity that US President Obama has just four years to turn climate change around.
“(Obama’s) four-year administration offers the world a last chance to get things right,” said James Hansen [NASA's top climate scientist, director of the Goddard Institute for Space and an adjunct professor of [...]

“We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf and burning it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that has to change.”

Nobel Prize winner, former US Vice-President and long-term climate activist Al Gore addressed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the strong links between the climate crisis, the economic [...]

Reuters is reporting Antarctic ice shelf set to collapse due to warming.
“We’ve come to the Wilkins Ice Shelf to see its final death throes,” David Vaughan, a glaciologist at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), told Reuters after the first — and probably last — plane landed near the narrowest part of the ice.
“It really could [...]

The Australian National University’s Dr Timothy Barrows has participated in a wide-ranging study on the climate change effects during the last ice age.
“During the last Ice Age – around 20,000 years ago – sea surface temperature was as much as 10 degrees colder than present and icebergs would have been regular visitors to the southern [...]

There’s a story in The Hindu today, White paint solution to climate change, which while the headline is not entirely true, the idea is sound I think.
Hashem Akbari has a vision of a shiny, happy world. He sees polished roads and cities that gleam in the sunlight. Rooftops are bright and pavements light. Akbari wants [...]

The Environment News Service is reporting Without Delay: Congress to Fast-Track Climate Legislation.
WASHINGTON, DC, January 15, 2009 (ENS) – The heads of some of America’s largest corporations together with the leaders of five of the country’s largest environmental groups today presented a joint plan to Congress for climate protection legislation. Congressional Democrats met their call [...]