Happy New Year Everybody

The fireworks were spectacular, the party was great. Love to my family and friends. Goodwill to all. Thanks Celia & Roger. Global Warning Climate Change Environment Science CO2 Carbon Sink Earth Australia Kyoto Energy

An Inconvenient Truth conveniently on YouTube

Please note: Video has been since been pulled by YouTube. Go and see it in the big screen.It's not like YouTube needs its profile raised after featuring in Time Magazines Person on the Year article, but it is now hosting An Inconvenient Truth in nine 10-minute parts. Distributed freely to 16 million unique users per month, potentially, this give a huge reach to a powerpoint presentation that Al

Climate change explained at the Exploratorium

The interaction offered by the Exploratorium makes a complex subject easy to understand. The key to understanding, I believe, is understanding the interrelation of everything, and this site takes you through what we know about global warming through research thrown up by the many disciplines that come together to make the science. Global Warning Climate Change Environment Science CO2 Carbon Sink

Could Dick Cheney make a fine British politician?

It seems that Dick Cheney has been subpoenaed on behalf of the defense in the Valerie Plume case. She was the CIA spy who was outed from her cover by someone in her government, in the lead up to the Iraq Invasion. She had contradicted the Administration's claim that Saddam had acquired yellowcake uranium from Africa. Some bloggers on the left are gleefully rubbing their hands, not seeing how

Global warming mind-map

Someone has drawn up a pretty good mind-map for the global warming mindful . :::[Breakfast Lunch Dinner]I don't know about the only having two kids, though. If people want to and have the means to have more children, that's their business. And they can carbon off-set their kids if they so choose, or even calculate them in as carbon sinks when working out their carbon footprints - all carbon based

Prophets of Hope preach sanity, War on Terror officially over in the UK

Battersea Power Station became the focus for an intelligent global warming protest statement on November 1st, highlighting the threat of climate change relative to terrorism.Two pieces of projected text read "How ironic to live in fear of terrorism and die of climate change" and "The ultimate terror threat is climate change". The projections were carried out by a group calling themselves The

'Truthiness' is US Word of 2006

In a tribute to the cut-through power of comedy, satirist and TV talk-show host Stephen Colbert's October 2005 coining of the term "truthiness" has been elevated to the US word of 2006, by Merriam-Webster."Truthiness" as defined by Colbert is "truth that comes from the gut, not books." :::[SMH]"We're at a point where what constitutes truth is a question on a lot of people's minds, and truth has

British Treasury hard astern, Stern steams ahead.

Sir Nicholas Stern, the globally coolest economist and the author of the world's most influential recent report on climate change is exiting the good ship British Treasury. Clashes with Chancellor Gordon Brown have been rumoured. There seems to be something of principle at stake for Sir Nicholas Stern. :::[SMH]The news came a day after Mr Brown made a pre-budget statement that embraced virtually

Trend maps of Australia warming for 95 years

If you go to the trend maps at the BoM website you get a series of maps showing the trends of rainfall, temperature, sea surface, and pan evaporation across Australia over the 20th century.By selecting Mean Temperature from the drop down menus, and Australia, Annual season, and the period 1910-present (2005), and you can display an at-a-a-glance graphic representation of effects of global warming

Howard airs his global warming stance

From Rocco Bloggo, the resident SMH blogging cartoonist, the story behind his latest cartoon. :::[Rocco Bloggo: Howard and the whole parched truth]... and adds that the upcoming election may be hindering Mr Howard from stating the real hard facts on global warming. A good example being how the price of energy will probably go right up through the ozone layer, and then further.So according to

Global Cool Watch: Mug a global warming skeptic

Very hot.This Christmas, give someone you love the gift of foresight and give them a Global Warming Mug.Each mug is covered with a map of the world. When you pour in a hot beverage, the mug shows what happens when the world heats up and the oceans begin to rise... Land mass disappears before your very eyes! :::[Wacky Planet]h/t Nexus 6 Global Warning Climate Change Rising Sea Levels

But does carbon capture and storage really work?

The Australian Government, and its coal industry (Or with the industry greenhouse mafiosos writing the Government's energy policy, is it the other way round?) has decided that future technologies preserving non-renewable energy sources are going to be the way to fight against climate change. By that they mean carbon capture technology, oxymoronically called 'clean-coal'. And nuclear.  But the

Global Cool Watch: Wind powered robot kinetic sculptures

Very cool.Theo Jansen is the Dutch creator of what he calls “Kinetic Sculptures,” where nature and technology meet. Essentially these sculptures are robots powered by the wind only. :::[Ministry of Tech]h/t Nexus 6 Global Warning Climate Change Environment Science Kinetic Sculpture Wind+Power Robotics BMW Energy