Carbon Footprints

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 [...]

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 [...]

In the UK The Guardian is reporting “Amazon could shrink by 85% due to climate change, scientists say“. The scientists go on in fact to say:
“The impacts of climate change on the Amazon are much worse than we thought. As temperatures rise quickly over the coming century the damage to the forest won’t be [...]

Pretty much the whole of Australia is on track to be completely carbon neutral if the Australian Federal Department of Climate Change gets their way. How will this amazing feat be achieved? By redefining the term ‘carbon neutral’.
Yesterday I attended a meeting of most of the key members of the Australian Carbon Offset [...]

The fossil fuel industries are the most destructive forces on the planet. Coal mining fatalities are so high that you can measure electric power in lives as well as megawatt hours. We all understand that burning of fossil fuels is one of the primary causes of global warming, but spare a thought for [...]

The New Yorker is running an editorial on the US Presidential Race,The Choice, comparing the candidates on variety of issues. On the issue of global warming they had this to say:
On energy and global warming, Obama offers a set of forceful proposals. He supports a cap-and-trade program to reduce America’s carbon emissions by [...]

Diagram by Martin Sharman and used with permission.
People have plenty of reasons for refusing to act when it comes to climate change. For many it’s just easier to blame China than to look to their own actions; their own use of products, made in China, powered by Australian coal. But this is moral [...]

Melbourne newspaper The Age is running a story by climate denialista Bob Carter called Wong’s climate paper clouded with mistakes in which he cherry picks words, disputes consensus opinions on climate science and rounds up his same old tired rhetoric to have a go at Climate Change Minister Wong’s recently released ‘Green Paper’ on Carbon [...]

The UK’s The Guardian is reporting Blowing the whistle on climate change.
In a letter (pdf) made public this week, former EPA associate deputy administrator Jason Burnett indicated that both the office of the vice-president and the White House Council on Environmental Quality have directly attempted to censor discussions of the consequences that global warming poses [...]

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 [...]