Carbon Footprints

Yesterday I received an email via Greenpeace Australia about the Anvil Hill open-cut coal mining project:
The Land and Environment Court will hand down their decision on the Anvil Hill mine court case at 4pm today:
Newcastle student Peter Gray lodged a court challenge against the controversial Anvil Hill open-cut coal mine on the grounds that [...]

The Washington Post is running a story by Laurie David, one of the producers of An Inconvenient Truth, called Science a la Joe Camel. I’ve extracted the gist of it here:
[T]he company that made the documentary decided to offer 50,000 free DVDs to the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) for educators to use in [...]

Think Progress is reminding us that the lunatic fringe is still alive and kicking, and in power, reporting Infhoe: Don’t Worry About Global Warming Because ‘God’s Still Up There’.
In an interview with Fox and Friends this morning, outgoing Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works James Inhofe (R-OK) argued that the current [...]

In Australia The Herald Sun is reporting PM defies supporters over Kyoto.
A Newspoll published today found 79 per cent of Australians want the Government to sign the Kyoto Protocol and commit to targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Seventy-one per cent of Coalition voters believe the same thing.
A massive 91 per cent want a shift from [...]

The Guardian is saying global warming is Beyond all reasonable doubt.
I wonder why it is so rare these days to hear people on the TV and radio saying that smoking is good for you or that the Holocaust is a fiction? Perhaps it is because these ideas are dangerous and socially unacceptable. Perhaps it is [...]

Notorious Exxon shill Bob Carter is spewing his usual lies in The Australian again. His latest target, in an article titled British report the last hurrah of warmaholics, is naturally the recently released Stern Report into the economic impacts of global warming. Carter, and people like him, have made a career out of [...]

News aggregator The Free Internet Press is reporting Senators Tell Exxon To Stop Denying Global Warming Exists.
ExxonMobil should stop funding groups that have spread the idea that global warming is a myth and that try to influence policymakers to adopt that view, two senators said today in a letter to the oil company.
In their letter [...]

In the Uk, The Guardian is saying Pundits who contest climate change should tell us who is paying them.
Covert lobbying, in the UK as well as the US, has severely set back efforts to combat the world’s biggest problem.
The campaign of dissuasion funded by Exxon and the tobacco company Philip Morris has been devastatingly effective. [...]

Seed Magazine is calling FREE DSCOVR!.
At a time when the Earth’s climate is at the top of practically every nation’s agenda, it might seem perplexing that there’s a $100 million, fully completed climate-sensing satellite stored in a warehouse in Maryland.
The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) was supposed to be delivered five years ago to the [...]

In the UK The Guardian is running part 1 of a series of extracts from George Monbiot’s new book, Heat. The first part is called The denial industry.
The oil giant ExxonMobil gives money to scores of organisations that claim the science on global warming is inconclusive - which it isn’t. It’s a strategy that [...]