Carbon Footprints

The UK’s Guardian is reporting the very sad, but hardly surprising news that US rejects all proposals on climate change.
The US has rejected any prospect of a deal on climate change at the G8 summit in Germany next month, according to a leaked document.
Despite Tony Blair’s declaration on Thursday that Washington would sign up to [...]

The UK’s Independent is reporting As Blair leaves Washington, US hardens stance on climate change.
As Tony Blair left Washington yesterday for his last visit as Prime Minister, the Bush administration was acting to scupper international efforts to combat climate change.
Harlan Watson, President Bush’s chief climate negotiator, rejected any caps on US emissions or participation in [...]

In the UK, The Guardian is reporting Paradise lost – with napalm.
To Australia’s shame, loggers are being allowed to destroy Tasmania’s extraordinary primeval forest.
Rainforest is being clearfelled and then burnt with napalm. The world’s tallest hardwood trees, eucalyptus regnans, are being reduced to mud and ash. And the monocultural plantations that replace the old growths [...]

The Financial Times has been investigating dodgy carbon offset schemes in a story Industry caught in carbon ‘smokescreen’.
A Financial Times investigation has uncovered widespread failings in the new markets for greenhouse gases, suggesting some organisations are paying for emissions reductions that do not take place.
Others are meanwhile making big profits from carbon trading for very [...]

In Political Affairs‘ Letters to the Editor section thus week they were asked,
Dear EarthTalk: Did Exxon/Mobil really pay scientists and economists to write articles trying to de-bunk global warming? — Rosemary R., via e-mail
I’ll reprint their reply in full here as it summs up the situation so well.
A February 2007 report in the British [...]

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 [...]