Carbon Footprints

The Seattle Post Intelligencer is reporting U.S. bars talk of climate change effects on bears.
The Bush administration is ordering federal wildlife officials headed for international meetings on polar bears not to talk about how climate change and melting ice are affecting the imperiled animals.
It is the latest in a string of cases in which the [...]

Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald is running an ‘event’ of sorts they call Earth Hour.
Earth Hour is just the start of a campaign that aims to reduce Sydney’s greenhouse emissions by 5% in 2007. The event will demonstrate how simple actions can make the world of difference if everyone takes part. And it sends a powerful [...]

On the US’s ABC News they inverviewed Dick Chaney, Cheney on Global Warming.
ABC’s Jonathan Karl asked Vice President Dick Cheney about the topic of global warming, a subject Mr. Cheney has rarely addressed in the past. The vice president agreed that the earth is warming but, like President Bush, maintained there is debate over whether [...]

Climate change denying shills including the very sad and deluded David Bellamy will be handing out their own watered-down version of the new IPCC report on Monday 5 Feb 2007 at the Atrium Restaurant, just over the road from Parliament House in London at 10am. (countdown)
They are beefing up security and trying to prevent all [...]

The UK’s Green Party describes the new Microsoft upgrade as a Vista Landfill nightmare.
Microsoft’s latest operating system, due for release tomorrow, is defective by design, putting Microsoft and the corporate media in control of your computer. Beneath the gloss they have hidden traps that take away important consumer rights, force expensive and environmentally damaging hardware [...]

The South African Mail and Guardian is saying US answer to global warming: Smoke and giant mirrors.
The United States government wants the world’s scientists to develop technology to block sunlight as a last-ditch way to halt global warming, the Guardian has learned.
It says research into techniques such as giant mirrors in space or reflective [...]

Virginian power utility Dominion Power has been placing obstacle after obstacle in the path of a volunteer-constructed massive solar energy array built at the Performing Arts Theatre of Franklin Park, allowing 280Kw hours of power per day to go to waste for almost seven years. It’s simply a disgrace. You want to be [...]

The Sunday Times in the UK is reporting China chokes on a coal-fired boom.
A GREAT coal rush is under way across China on a scale not seen anywhere since the 19th century.
Its consequences have been detected half a world away in toxic clouds so big that they can seen from space, drifting across the Pacific [...]

Tired of running into people who claim climate change is a lefty consipiracy? Appalled by the way shills like Bob Carter get promoted in the press while genuine climate science is trod underfoot? Wel the Union of Concerned Scientists has launched their A to Z Guide to Political Interference in Science.
In recent years, [...]

The Indian website Daily News & Analysis, is reporting Plane crash kills Mr Hybrid.
David Hermance, 59, died when the single-seat experimental plane he was piloting crashed into the ocean off San Pedro in southern California on Saturday after performing several loops and spins.
The Los Angeles Times reported Monday that the married father-of-two [...]