Carbon Footprints

From my friends at Freerange Studios. Enjoy and don’t make December 25th your very own “turn it up day”.
To find out more about how coal mining companies are literally ripping the very tops of mountains, you can use Google Earth to see before and after images, or check out the I Love Mountains website. [...]

David Gallo, one of the first oceanographers to use a combination of manned submersibles and robots to map the ocean world with unprecedented clarity and detail, gives an astounding talk at TED called Underwater astonishments. It’s important, with all of this talk of the economics of climate change, to remind ourselves of the total [...]

Severn Suzuki gave this speech to the UN in 1992, aged 12. It’s so impassioned, so adult in its delivery, yet emphasises over and over that she is “just a child.” To think that so many years have passed and so little done to fix the problems she so clearly identified back then. [...]

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 [...]

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

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Ross Garnaut was in Adelaide the other day to launch the latest draft of the Garnaut Review. He addresses questions on dissenters in the climate science ranks, and Australia’s at risk being a drag on the progress of the rest of the world rather than being the leader some are complaining about. He [...]

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Tony Blair’s ‘Breaking The Climate Deadlock’ speech is a great speech. He’s much more casual now he’s not in office and his candour shines in this talk. He argues that the science is settled, we understand full well that it is the rise of the west that has been the cause [...]

The above is an excerpt is from the 1958 educational documentary “Unchained Goddess” directed and produced by the legendary Frank Capra for Bell Labs for their television program “The Bell Telephone Hour.” The film went on to become a staple of middle school science classrooms across the United States for decades.
The science of climate change [...]

The Google Earth Blog has a great post; Disappearing Forests Google Earth Visualizations.
An excellent set of 3D visualizations has been added to the Google Earth Outreach Showcase. The visualizations show the state of forests around the world by country. The world has lost close to half of its forests already today, and the continued high [...]

Professor Ross Garnaut, the man in charge of determining just how the Australian Emissions Trading Scheme should work, gave the 2008 Arndt Memorial Lecture on World Environment Day at the Australian National University in Canberra. His speech, Measuring the Immeasurable – The Costs and Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation has been widely reported, [...]