Archive for January, 2009

• Severe droughts and heatwaves in Argentina, Australia and California

  Photo credit: suburbanbloke As a top German scientist warns that climate change is accelerating, while 2008 ends up being the tenth warmest year ever recorded and a NOAA study shows climate change is “largely irreversible for 1000 years” we hear …

• Shock: NOAA study shows climate change “largely irreversible for 1000 years”

  Photo credit: pfala A new scientific study from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in USA shows that “there’s no going back” from climate change caused by carbon dioxide. The study, led by NOAA senior scientist Susan Solomon, has …

• Al Gore: “We’ve Arrived at a Moment of Decision”

  Yesterday Al Gore testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about repowering America and the need for USA to resume global leadership on the climate crisis. You can read his opening statement below. Al Gore is also calling for you …

• Purchasing Power = Green Living

  We are all sick of the sorry economy and all it takes with it, including life’s simple pleasures.  Magazines are going under at accelerated speed, with new ones sinking each week. One that left us recently is popular green mag, …

• Emperor Penguins will face extinction within the next 100 years

  Photo credit: pixie_bebe If the ice continues to shrink (due to man-made climate change) at its current pace the Emperor Penguins will become extinct within 100 years, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts warns. “Emperor Penguins are …

• Obama warns of “irreversible catastrophe” on climate, says he will not deny facts

  Yesterday Barack Obama delivered a speech about jobs, energy independence, and climate change as he “will direct federal regulators to move swiftly to grant California and 13 other states the right to set strict automobile emissions and fuel efficiency standards,” …

• Creative ad placement from the Reality Coalition

  While surfing the Washington Post this blogger found a creative ad placement from the Reality Coalition (see image above), which purpose is to tell the American public that there is no “clean coal”: “I noticed this the other morning when …

• Big 3 will continue to sue the Government to prevent stricter fuel-efficiency standards

  Photo credit: Ateo Fiel After getting bailed out by the American public the “big three” in USA still show that they can’t be trusted. For years these failed auto companies have resisted and done everything in their powers to stop …

• Exploding the Myths of “Carbon Offsets”

  Carbon offsets are the modern day indulgences, sold to an increasingly carbon conscious public to absolve their climate sins. Scratch the surface, however, and a disturbing picture emerges, where creative accountancy and elaborate shell games cover up the impossibility of …

• London polar bear stranded on the Thames

  The Times Online is reporting that a polar bear was found stranded on a block of ice travelling down the Thames in London yesterday. Although the polar bear only was a giant sculpture designed to help promote a new natural …