Paul Gilding: The Earth is full
“Let me begin with four words that will provide the context for this week, four words that will come to define this century. Here they are: The Earth is full. It’s full of us, it’s full of our stuff, full of our waste, full of our demands. Yes, we are a brilliant and creative species, but we’ve created a little too much stuff — so much that our economy is now bigger than its host, our planet. Continue reading →

I’ve only just scratched the surface of this new website on global warming from NASA, but wow is it impressive. I was just trying to figure out how I can convince my staunchly Republican/conservative father that it’s time he admit it — global warming is real. Naturally he thinks it’s a tree-hugging liberal notion, and there’s no need to take it seriously — oh, and hybrids are a marketing scam. We got into this conversation last week when I was forced to go car shopping after a dump truck driver totaled my car. And for our US readers, he was wearing a “git ‘er done” t-shirt. Well, he got ‘er done, but that’s another story. Continue reading →

A new documentary titled “Six Degrees Could Change the World” will be airing on the National Geographic Channel on Sunday 10 February at 8pm ET.

The program, based on a book by the same title by Mark Lymas, sounds like scenes from a dramatic “The Day After” style disaster movie: from 1 degree of temperature increase: “residents flee Midwest drought” “alpine villages threatened by frequent rockfalls” “mass bleaching of coral spreads, scientists warn of ecological impact” “hurricane expected to hit Mediterranean coast”… to 6 degrees of temperature increase: “emergency alert system disbanded” “communications sporadic as major infrastructures collapse” “ocean’s surface becomes poisonous” “cities and towns unsustainable”…. Continue reading →

This is from the David Suzuki Foundation newsletter.

Climate change myths debunked

In spite of explosive news coverage about global warming over the past year, most people still have only a very rudimentary knowledge of this complex issue. Unfortunately, this lack of knowledge has led to persistent myths, which are slowing down real action that could prevent the worst damage from occurring to our economy and to our environment. Continue reading →

I sincerely hope that the 2008 presidential election brings climate change/global warming to the forefront of US policy issues. The story below doesn’t surprise me one bit, but it does disturb me. This is no longer an issue up for debate, its an issue that needs to be addressed immediately and effectively for our future and for future generations. Continue reading →

Or, if I had my way, bluer. Because we need to keep the ocean blue in a “green” way as much as we need to keep the earth green.

I am absolutely thrilled at the outcome of this week’s election. Rumsfeld’s ousting was icing on the, um, wheat grass (sticking with the green theme.) Continue reading →

Groundbreaking climate report inspires predictable political responses

World reaction to yesterday’s U.K. report linking climate change with possible economic ruin has been swift — and painfully predictable. Continue reading →

As usual, the US sidesteps its responsibility to the planet:

From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
By Roger Harrabin
Environment analyst, BBC News, Monterrey

Climate talks between the world’s top 20 polluters have ended with an unusual level of agreement on the urgent need to tackle greenhouse gas emissions.

But delegates at the Mexico talks also stressed the massive gap between the politics and science of climate change. Several said they had never known such a positive atmosphere [at the climate talks]. Nobody doubted the reality of climate science anymore. Continue reading →