Archive for the ‘Global Warming’ Category

• “Remember this number for the rest of your life.”

  The world is starting to realise that the goal of 450 ppm as a reasonable level to balance and stabilize the CO2 in our atmosphere is based on wrong and outdated science and won’t be enough to stop man-made climate …

• Australian Rudd Labor Government plans to kill Great Barrier Reef?

  Photo from the Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Australia. Photo: Icelight. An extraordinary admission by the Australian Federal Government has passed unnoticed by the Mainstream media in the “look away” Land of Oz, the Antipodean Land of Flies, …

• The dangers of false optimism

  Oxfam’s Polar Bears protested in support of humans who are also losing their habitat and natural resources due to Climate Change at the UN Climate Change Conference on Thursday 6 December, 2007. Photo: Ng Swan Ti. Martin Parry, Jean Palutikof, …

• The cyclone Nargis in Burma “is a sign of things to come”

  According to a newly released study from the FAO, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the deforestation in Burma have exposed coastal communities and worsen the effects of the cyclone. Jan Heino, the Assistant Director General of …

• Al Gore presents his new slide show

  By now I guess everyone has seen Al Gore’s movie and slide show, or at least understands the severity of climate change. Now Al Gore has updated his slide show and “presents evidence that the pace of climate change may …

• The Earth Hour carbon calculator

  Did you participate in Earth Hour this weekend? Yes? Great, cause now its time to take it to the next level. It’s time to actually make a difference. Earth Hour has teamed up with Zerofootprint, a Canadian not-for-profit organisation, to …

• The Arctic is losing its ice faster than ever

  This is a continuation on an earlier post called “It keeps getting warmer, no matter what some people say“. Just like the global warming deniers say the Arctic ice is approximately the same as it was last year, as data …

• It keeps getting warmer, no matter what some people say

  There have been some talks, especially on the Internet, that the global temperature this winter has increased less than it’s done the last fourteen years. Climate deniers have, of course, been acting like crazy about this. But is it true? …

• Climate change a threat to the security in Europe

  Thursday and Friday this week the top boys and girls of the European Union meet in Brussels. EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, and Europe’s commissioner for external relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, have prepared a report on climate change and security …

• Book Review: Climate Code Red – the case for a sustainability emergency

  In February 2008 Australian Friends of the Earth published a very important book entitled “Book Review: Climate Code Red – the case for a sustainability emergency” by David Spratt (a policy analyst with Carbon Equity) and Philip Sutton (director of …