Carbon Footprints

Recently the US Republican’s used Paris Hilton in an ad campaign to imply that Democratic candidate Barack Obama was unfit to lead. Ms Hilton has filmed her own response where she espouses her own energy policy. She’s in favour of limited offshore drilling if it’s monitored closely by environmental groups and also in [...]

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 [...]

I admire Arnie’s straightforward approach to these problems. — DS

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It seems that a combination of global warming, Google Earth and Facebook is leading to british teens invading people’s backyard pools! The Mail on Sunday reported The Google Earth gatecrashers who take uninvited dips in home-owners’ swimming pools, saying:
Would-be revellers are using satellite images on the internet to find houses with swimming pools - [...]

You have to laugh sometimes. — DS

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Geo-Location of the IP of the sender of the email.
We get a lot of email from the general public here at Carbon Planet and some of it even makes sense. This email is fairly typical and I’d reprint it in full but for the sailor-talk. I am not prude, and find swearing as [...]

In the UK The Times‘ Caitlin Moran has written an hillarious story A plague on all your houses’ hated kitchen gadgets and I couldn’t agree more. One of the biggest drivers of waste, carbon emissions and pollution in general is this drive we seem to have to fill up our houses with crap we [...]

NineMSN is reporting Conserve your toilet paper: Sheryl Crow.
Sheryl Crow is suggesting a bottom-up solution to wipe away global warming: limit each trip to the bathroom to one piece of toilet paper, according to a statement on the rocker’s website.
Crow said she had spent most of an environmental tour of US college campuses thinking of [...]

It’s official! Yahoo! News is reporting that Mock metal group Spinal Tap to reunite to raise awareness of climate change.
The mock heavy metal group immortalized in the 1984 mockumentary, “This is Spinal Tap,” will reunite for a performance at Wembley Stadium in London as part of the Live Earth concerts scheduled worldwide for July [...]

Okay so Kian over at Eco-Chick didn’t find Sarah Silverman’s “A Very Convenient Truth” so funny, but I really think it’s important to retain both a sense of humour, and a sense of perspective. Sarah uses humour to get across the same points as Gore, using the same footage, but is utterly lampooning herself [...]