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Bedtime Story Controversy in United Kingdom

noiv — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:16:58 +0000

C02 Bedtime Story

UK based Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) launched this commercial as part of its Act on CO2 campaign.

The Advertising Standards Authority received already hundreds of complains and the placement in TV and cinema will continue a further month.

What kind of discussion would a similar broadcasting raise in your country? Would you like to give the story a happy end?

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Kilimanjaro

noiv — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:04:13 +0000

1938 Ernest Hemingway eternalised Africa’s white peak with “The Snows of Kilimanjaro“. Now researchers led by paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson estimate the thousands years old glaciers will disappear this century.

PNAS: Glacier loss on Kilimanjaro continues unabated
LIFE Photo (1930)
Photo Credit: paulshaffner using CC

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350.org: Planet too hot for Supermodels

noiv — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:35:55 +0000

Hot Planet

The climate action day on 24th October was one of the major events this year.

350.org launched an impressive campaign and received feedback from all over the planet.

More viral media is needed to attract global interest.

Featuring: Rachel Alexander, Shannan Click, Hanne Gaby Odiele, Olya Ivanisevic, Alla Kostromicheva, Heidi Mount, Crystal Renn, Rianne Ten Haken, Nicole Trunfio, and Dorothea Barth Jorgensen.

Not everybody was invited to join. :)

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They come back to Town

noiv — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:34:05 +0000

Stunning the melt is over scenario. More video formats.

A Filmakademie Baden Württemberg production

Visual Effects Supervisor Mattepainter
Production Design Director
Thilo Ewers

Digital Artist
Holger Wenzl

Production
Franziska Specht

Music
Cornelius Renz

TDs
Daniel Stern
Stefan Habel

Cut
Sven Kulik

Animation
Felix Graf
Ellen Hoffmann

via Ehrensenf.de

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More Arctic Melting

noiv — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:29:19 +0000

The 2009 Arctic melting gained momentum, it is now below 2008 and accelerates. A massive bloom of algae has set up Alaska’s coast guard and Innuits. Nobody remembers that kind of occurrence in Chukchi Sea at any time.

Greenpeace expects the collapse of hundred square kilometers of the Petermann glacier soon. The Arctic Sunrise anchored closely enough to document from helicopters. Cams have been installed on the glacier.

Above image shows east Greenland close to the Jakobshavn glacier with all the melting ponds giving the ice sheet the structure of a sponge. Each pixel equals roughly a few hundred meters.

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Spam, Energy and Entropy

noiv — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:36:24 +0000

The average GHG emission associated with a single spam message is 0.3 grams of CO2. That’s like driving three feet (one meter) in equivalent emissions, but when multiplied by the annual volume of spam, it’s like driving around the Earth 1.6 million times.

While checking the gmail spam folder, I decided to count them in miles from now :(

McAffee: The Carbon Footprint of Email Spam Report

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G8: Percentages, Degrees done. Tons left over for Copenhagen

noiv — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:20:19 +0000

We reaffirm the importance of the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and notably of its Fourth Assessment Report, which constitutes the most comprehensive assessment of the science.

We recognise the broad scientific view that the increase in global average temperature above pre-industrial levels ought not to exceed 2°C.

Because this global challenge can only be met by a global response, we reiterate our willingness to share with all countries the goal of achieving at least a 50% reduction of global emissions by 2050, recognising that this implies that global emissions need to peak as soon as possible and decline thereafter.

As part of this, we also support a goal of developed countries reducing emissions of greenhouse gases in aggregate by 80% or more by 2050 compared to 1990 or more recent years.

Consistent with this ambitious long-term objective, we will undertake robust aggregate and individual mid-term reductions, taking into account that baselines may vary and that efforts need to be comparable.

Similarly, major emerging economies need to undertake quantifiable actions to collectively reduce emissions significantly below business-as-usual by a specified year.

Full text (PDF)

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Timelapse Video of Melting Arctic 2009

noiv — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:29:59 +0000

100 Days of Melting

Currently the Arctic sea ice covers 9.5 million square kilometers an area which is between the extent of 2008 and 2007. So, given the relatively cold Arctic summer and far less multi-annual sea ice, how will it look like in late September 2009?

The animation above shows the last 100 days captured by NASA’s satellite Terra. Be careful, areas under the clouds are not updated, the stills are not telling the truth. The first frame is dated 03/26/09.

Check out the HD Quality link and go fullscreen to enjoy a brilliant 720p animation with a very detailed Arctic. A 14MB AVI is available on request.

Many thanks to the MODIS Rapid Response System Team providing a daily high resolution mosaic of the Arctic

Follow the daily melting at ice-map.appspot.com.

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The Edge: Conversation with Gavin Schmidt

noiv — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:30:57 +0000

The Edge - constantly exploring the mindset of the future - offered Gavin Schmidt the opportunity to draw a line from noisy climate models to noisy communication.

Gavin is writing as one of the main contributors at RealClimate.org.

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Geological Map of Arctic

noiv — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:56:21 +0000

Available from Natural Resources Canada is this detailed geological map of the Arctic. The map was completed in November 2008 as part of a two-year, seven-nation collaboration. Resources as minerals, gas and oil could be very often found in similar geological formations.

“The Europeans, the Russians, they’ve been at it much longer than we have in terms of mineral and energy exploration in their Arctic,” said Marc St-Onge, a research scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada in an interview. “Knowing where they have their mineral deposits and gas and oil fields, we can use the geology of this consistent map … to see where else we should be looking Canada.”

The Arctic is continuously facing new claims by the surrounding countries. Russia placed a flag on the sea bed at the North Pole and recently Norway expanded its ambitions in the Barents Sea and gave a green light for a $4.2 billion project.

“Goliat is the first oil field in the Barents Sea that will be developed. Goliat is the biggest industrial project to ever be undertaken in northern Norway,” said Norway’s Oil And Energy Minister Terje Riis-Johansen in a statement.

Is there a need to model these kind of economic feedback effects on a melting Arctic? Or is the Arctic anyway ice-free , when the carbon found there is all burned?

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Arctic 2009: The Melting has Started

noiv — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:32:24 +0000

The good news is sea level will not rise if Arctic melts. Your soft drink full of ice cubes does not overflow for same reason. Instead of the Northwest and Northeast Passages will become navigable by regular ships for part of the year very soon and feeds economic and military interests.

International shipping routes between Asia and Europe will be reduced by thousands of miles. Canada could face worldwide demands on opening the Passage for international transit. The implications in terms of increased ship traffic, pollution and infrastructure development regarding Arctic’s fragile ecosystems are obviously.

Each year the Arctic undergoes the seasonal formation in winter and in summer an area of ice the size of Europe melts away to freeze again the following winter - usually.

20th September 2007 - the National Ice and Snow Data Center announced a historical arctic sea ice minimum: A loss of 4.61 million square kilometer. That means some square meters per terrestrial - compared against the 20 year average minimum. Your greenhouse gas emissions do count!

Due to the positive ice-albedo feedback effect Arctic sea ice is a sensitive tipping point in the Earth climate system. Without that ice, heat energy from the ocean would be transferred to warm the polar air. In fact, sea ice is so effective an insulator that its absence would warm the overlying air by between 20 and 40°C during winter.

Last year the September minimum did not break the latest record, on the other hand it was just a matter of a few days. What can we expect for 2009? An important factor is the thickness of the sea ice. Scientists distinguish between annual and multi-annual ice. The latter is thicker and less vulnerable to sun rays, warmer sea water or air.

Based on submarine measurements, the ice draft is reported to have thinned by 40% from the 1960s and 1970s to the 1990s. Latest satellite based analysis show Arctic is now literally on thin ice. Thicker ice, which survives two or more years, now comprises just 10 percent of wintertime ice cover, down from 30 to 40 percent.

Personally, I think Climate Change is lacking a powerful symbol. CO2 is invisible, so what can we print on T-shirts? Although measurements and graphs state a yearly sea level rise of millimeters, a temperature increase of fractions of a degree and a few ppm of CO2 molecules - does someone feels the daily impact?

The vanishing Arctic may serve as a symbol, but climate models estimate the Arctic might be completely ice free in summer in 20 or 30 years. This would be an irreversible result of uncontrolled greenhouse gas emissions and a lack of political action and responsibility. Not all aspects of the Arctic are already modeled - possibly you can book a tourist trip to North Pole much earlier. Until then you may like the idea to see and prove how Global Warming is already changing our planet.

Two NASA satellites called Aqua and Terra capture daily photos of the poles on their orbit. The MODIS Rapid Response System at NASA/GSFC combines them into a daily mosaic of the Arctic since 18th April 2009. Since a few days the mosaic from the day before is available using the Explorer here with geoLink 1650.

More interactivity allows the spin-off side ice-map.appspot.com: seven daily updated maps, four zoom levels, a perma link feature and the calendar give you full access to the current melting season.

By default it starts with the latest complete mosaic of the Arctic. You can zoom in from a resolution of 4km to 500m meters per pixel (Ctrl-down/up) and see daily changes (Ctrl-left/right).

The tiles are downloaded and cropped on request, depending on the zoom level it may take some seconds or more until the picture is complete. But once all the tiles are processed and cached the interface is very responsive. The more users the better is the performance. Unfortunately the NASA near-realtime data feed experiences sometimes technical issues, a status page give latest information.

Very informative is the band 367 layer with a false color display. It includes an infra-red band and maps the wave lengths differently to the red, blue and green channels. Clouds, ice, water, land and vegetation are shown in different colors.

The photo on the right shows some dark red areas with melt water on the ice surface. In summer blue melt ponds will dot the surface of Greenland. If in late September there is no more red - all ice had disappeared.

For your convenience here are a few direct links:

Iceland (20/04/2009 - Band 367), Jakobshavn Glacier (24/04/2009 - Band 367), Bering Strait (06/05/2009), former Ellesmere Ice Shelf (02/05/2009), Nuuk (07/05/2009)

Did I mention Antarctica is also available? At least the outer regions are enjoying still a bit of sun light, but using the calendar you can go back and see an nearly intact Wilkins Ice Shelf (06/03/2009).

Follow Arctic sea ice changes on Twitter and discuss by using the comment function.

Many thanks to the whole MODIS Rapid Response team. Without their cooperation this project would not have been possible.

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2nd* UNofficial UNFCCC CROSSWORD

noiv — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:35:08 +0000

IISD: Print Version

ACROSS:
1: decisions provide it; 4: one was agreed in Kyoto; 9: observer Party to the Protocol;
12: used by Annex I Parties for the preparation of inventories;
13: [backwards] COP 11 host’s domain; 14: –NGOs; 15: UNFCCC’s first “C”;
22: type of bunker fuels emissions;
25: skeptics and climate consultants aside, we all —- with climate change;
27: climate change’s one is hosted by WMO;
28: refers to GHG concentrations, often unclear whether CO2 or CO2-eq;
29: [backwards] major developed Party; 30: [backwards] text not approved yet;
32: the landfill approach to mitigation; 34: development agency, lately also climate;
36: COP 10 host’s domain; 37: Party sharing island with COP 13 host;
38: daily bulletin that keeps you updated; 39: one of the funds;
40: according to developing countries, not to be confused with Annex I financial commitments under the convention;
43: a type of assessment; 45: can have two or four legs, and in LCA, white hair;
47: areas with different climates; 48: —- we can believe in,specially for climate;
52: one type of document; 54: a network for climate change information;
57: a GHG; 58: the latest report; 60: work programme agreed in 2/CP.11;
61: one of the funds; 62: operationalized in Poznan; 64: used by the GEF to decide how to shell out;
65: Christ is the Secretary; 67: a GHG;
70: take UNFCCC’s logo without text and wavy line, ratio of perimeter to height;
71: a bulletin found at UNFCCC meetings; 72: [backwards] BAP’s 1b)ii buzz word;
74: with its instrument, signatories become Parties;
78: [backwards] LULUCF without change or forestry;
80: [backwards] the most basic registry unit;
81: shuttles delegates; 82: [backwards] after IPCC’s FAR;
83: a few exist or are proposed under the Convention and Protocol;
86: a clearing house for technology transfer; 89: [backwards] initials of oil or diamond producing Party;
91: [backwards] most urgent adaptation needs of LDCs;
92: initials of the four building blocks (coincides with a proposed technology fund);
93: finance that is not private; 97: before AR4;
99: you could (before Bali) consult them on non-Annex I communications;
101: deals with GHG emissions from ships; 103: initials of what we are talking about;
104: fun party at COPs; 106: a metric to compare climate effects of different GHG;
108: dominates plenary; 110: big hopes that a post 2012 agreement will bear its name;
113: its immunity agreements do not apply to UNFCCC boards;
114: [backwards] emitted from soils along with N2O after fertilization;
115: Protocol’s governing body; 116: [backwards] the New Zealand ‘fix’;

DOWN:
2: almost AFOUL; 3: often confused with a tonne; 5: [backwards] CO2 – O1;
6: intellectual property rights agreement; 7: starts offer;
8: refers to reports, not telephones; 9: unit that maintains Secretariat’s computers and networks;
10: where delegates get their money;
11: most commonly misspelled version of one of the few UNFCCC “Q” acronyms;
13: they were carried out under a pilot phase that ended in 2000;
16: what Brazil says to CCS under CDM;
17: [backwards] climate consultants tend to charge a high one;
18: contain “unconventional” oil;
19: domain of climate panel Chairman’s home country;
20: Spanish climate change office;
21: tulip producing Party’s domain; 23: it’s more about green than the color it sounds like;
24: [backwards] a flexibility mechanism;
26: one wrote a report, another represents the US;
27: [backwards] 1/CP.13; 29: short version of IPCC reports;
31: district hosting the US government;
33: gases replaced by potent GHGs; 35: COP 14;
41: it will check your CDM project design;
42: hardworking insect or reverse for evaluation of technology needs;
43: MRV Component; 44: morning contact groups;
46: [backwards] IPCC’s website country domain;
49: [backwards] what 10DOWN provides;
50: putting trees where there ain’t been for at least 50 years;
51: [backwards] agriculture; 53: met from 1990-95;
55: [backwards] controversial whether destruction of —23 should get CERs;
56: eventually lead to the Marrakesh Accords; 59: pretty good job at UNFCCC Secretariat;
63: building block; 64: MRV component; 66: HQ in Japan, deals with climate technology;
67: building block; 68: 1 metric tonne of CO2-eq; 69: [backwards] applicant entity;
73: fashionable acronym after Bali;
75: first two letters of one of the Smallest Island Developing States;
76: [backwards] a fund or short for planting trees in long-time unforested lands;
77: fixed document; 79: [backwards] virtual system for automatic checks;
84: A EU-proposed platform on technology information;
85: observer organization originally based in Stockholm;
87: to find out what technologies you need;
88: KP or LCA;
90: Saudi Arabia’s proposal on a NAMA’s support and accreditation mechanism;
94: WesternCanadian province;
95: often confused with poor, most vulnerable parties, a technology found in many Annex I Party living rooms, the manufacturing of which produces NF3, a potent GHG;
96: Party which hosted Olympics sometime during the past 50 years;
98: [backwards] a good lobbyist has the delegate’s — ;
99: [backwards] a GHG;
100: green NGOs; 102: [backwards] one of the many types of NGOs;
105: academic journal dealing with MEAs such as UNFCCC;
107: [backwards] technology information platform ; 109: Australia. Or Austria?;
110: a reduced GHG;111: [backwards] its Secretary General appointed Yvo de Boer;
112: if delegates are, I — .

More: 1st UNofficial UNFCCC Crossword

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Barack Obama speaking at NATO Summit in Strasbourg Town Hall

Administrator — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:41:04 +0000

Obama at Nato Summit

He said about Climate Change and responsibility:

… we also know that in the 21st century, security is more complex than military power.

This is the generation that must also stop the spread of the pollution that is slowly killing our planet, from shrinking coastlines and devastating storms to widespread misery and famine and drought. The effects of climate change are now in plain sight.

Europe has acted with a seriousness of purpose that this challenge demands. And in the last few months I’m proud to say that America has begun to take unprecedented steps to transform the way that we use energy.

We appointed a special envoy to help us lead a global effort to reduce the carbon that we send in the atmosphere.

But we all know that time is running out. And that means that America must do more. Europe must do more. China and India must do more. Rolling back the tide of a warming planet is a responsibility that we have to ourselves, to our children, and all of those who will inherit God’s creation long after we are gone.

So let us meet that responsibility together. I am confident that we can meet it. But we have to begin today.

LA Times: Full script

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Friendly Snowball: Browsing from A-Z

Administrator — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:28:14 +0000

I believe it started here: http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2008-11-24/abc-meme/. Mike provided a speed-up:

C=Components;d=C.classes['@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1'].getService(C.interfaces.nsPIPlacesDatabase).DBConnection;for(o=[],c=97;c<123;c++){h=String.fromCharCode(c);q=d.createStatement( 'SELECT title t, url u FROM moz_inputhistory JOIN moz_places ON id=place_id WHERE input LIKE "'+h+'%'+'" ORDER BY use_count DESC LIMIT 1'); if(q.step())o.push(['',h,': ',q.row.t,''].join( '' ))}open('data:text/html,'+o.join('\n'))

for FF3.1 - check out minefield and don’t order new hardware just because your browser is slow!

A: http://www.amazon.de/
(it’s Christmas soon)

B: http://musicbrainz.org/
(tag & listen & work)

C: http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/emis/em_cont.htm
(a moving target)

D: http://www.deezer.com/
(too many ads)

E: http://exploreourpla.net/
(!)

F: http://feelxfree.blogspot.com/
(Autour de moi les fous)

G: https://mail.google.com/mail/
(unbeatable@G)

H: http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/common/c_cd.jsp?conDetailID=589689
(who knows the future?)

I: http://www.climate-l.org/2008/08/icao-statement.html
(fly but ver)

J: http://www.chrisesler.com/mootools/
(oops - is there an upcoming update?)

K: http://chat.kongregate.com/gamez/0002/7196/live/99bricks.swf
(physical tetris)

L: http://start.ubuntu.com/8.04/
(please - intrepid ibex is running)

M: http://mootools.net/docs/Class/Class
(who said jquery?)

N: http://news.google.com/
(daily update)

0: http://editra.org/
(formats newlisp)

P: http://localhost/info.php
(_.’._)

Q: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/cryosphere.html
(stop the melting!)

R: http://www.hittail.com/login.asp?c=0
(traffic, traffic, traffic)

S: http://blog.songbirdnest.com/
(itunes? - pfffh)

T: http://www.mousegestures.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=147
(installed easystroke instead)

U: http://data.un.org/Default.aspx
(emissions per inhabitant per kilowatt per year per country)

V: http://www.green.tv/
(greenTube)

W: http://www.ehrensenf.de/shows/ehrensenf/wachskunst-stadtzeichner-falsche-hand
(Jeannine rocks)

X: http://feeds.feedburner.com/transportenvironment/bulletin?format=xml
(transforms transport)

Y: http://mlt0.google.com/mapslt?lyrs=lmc:panoramio,lmc:wikipedia_en&x=1316&y=3176&z=13&w=256&h=256&source=maps_
(google knows to render)

Z: http://www.zeit.de
(german, best value / text and money )

Just type letter by letter in the location bar of your browser and blog the first result from the proposals.

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WWF: Climate Changes might happen faster than Scientists can Research, Publish and Communicate

noiv — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:39:53 +0000

Prepared by Dr. Tina Tin this report compiles the scientific outcome published after the latest IPCC report.

She points out the Arctic sea ice coverage was low this and last year and is stressed by an albedo feedback effect.

Findings lead to a new maximum sea level forecast this century. Other topics are the health of children suffering from Climate Change, long-term droughts in the Mediterranean region, damage of northern birch forests caused by leaf-chewing and leaf-mining insects and crops failures and the collapse of eco systems on both land and sea.

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Magnitudes of Carbon Dioxide

noiv — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:31:08 +0000

Ever wondered how something as little as a molecule of C02 can change the world? But more is different: CO2 turned Venus into a overheated hostile planet and without greenhouse gases Earth would be a snowball.

This post collects - without any special order - amounts, years and references and provides the facts needed to see the complete picture. Updates will happen when ever new information is available.

2005 7.85 billion tons	of carbon passed into the atmosphere	Global Carbon Project
2005 379.1 ppm	Quantities of CO2 were measured at 379.1 parts per million (ppm) for 2005, up 0.53 per cent from 377.1 ppm in 2004, WMO said in its latest Greenhouse Gas Bulletin	UN News Centre
1750 280 ppm	The CO2 concentration has risen from about 280 ppm in the year 1750 to about ~380 ppm today.	Postdam Institute
2006 50,000 tons	UK traffic lights emit about 50,000 tonnes of CO2 per year through energy use.	BBC Magazine Monitor
2006 400 litre	Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 litre bottles.	CBBC News Round
>1751 315 billion tons	Since 1751 roughly 321 billion tons of carbon have been released to the atmosphere from the consumption of fossil fuels and cement production. Half of these emissions have occurred since the mid 1970s. The 2004 global fossil-fuel CO2 emission estimate, 7910 million metric tons of carbon, represents an all-time high and a 5.4% increase from 2003	Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center

1.98 g/L	gaseous CO2 has a density of 1.98 gram per litre	Wikipedia
3,000 giga tons	The mass of the Earth atmosphere is 5.14×10E18 kg, so the total mass of atmospheric carbon dioxide is 3.0×10E15 kg (3,000 gigatonnes)	Wikipedia
145-255 mill. tons	According to the best estimates, volcanoes release about 145-255 million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere each year.	Wikipedia
1997 2.93 tons	Marland’s estimate of the average absorption of a U.S. commercial forest is 0.8 tons of carbon/hectare/year. By converting this number into the units mentioned above, this equals 2.93 tons of CO2 /hectare/year, or 1.19 tons of CO2/acre/year.	Jerry Hannan
1 ton	One ton = 1000kg One cubic meter = 1000liters One mole CO2 = 44.0g One ton contains 22730 moles of CO2 One mole is 24.47L Volume of one ton CO2 = 22730moles × 24.47L/mole = 556200L = 556.2m³ One ton of CO2 occupies 556.2qm of volume.	International Carbon Bank and Exchange
2007 8.7 mill. tons	Because the California wildfires occurred just as the study was about to be published, the researchers calculated how much carbon dioxide was likely to come from the devastating blazes Oct. 19-26. It’s a lot: 8.7 million tons.	MSNBC / AP
322 mill. tons	On average, wildfires in the United States each year pump 322 million tons of carbon dioxide. That’s about 5 percent of what the country emits by burning fossil fuels, such as gasoline and coal, according to the new research published online Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal Carbon Balance and Management.	Weather.com / AP
3,000 giga tons	The Greenland ice sheet could melt completely and irreversibly if 3,000 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide are released into the atmosphere, according to scientists.	Nature.com
475 giga tons	Next, remember atmospheric CO2 includes two oxygen atoms, and weighs 3.7x the carbon feedstock. So if there are 70 gigatons of carbon in the Amazon, for example, burning the remaining Amazonian carbon will release 2.7x that many gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere (ref. Amazon Ecology Project). So far, tropical deforestation alone has resulted in the release of about 475 gigatons of CO2 into our atmosphere.	Ecoworld.com
2008 6 giga tons	Human activity generates six gigatonnes of carbon dioxide per year, while the Earth can recycle only three gigatonnes. The rest accumulates each year in the atmosphere, thus reinforcing the greenhouse effect. Remember to save energy!	EEA
2050 20 giga tons	As a result of the above mentioned findings, there seems to be a consensus among the leading developed countries that the temperature increase caused by global warming must not exceed 2° C (3.6° F). For example the European Union (EU) has committed itself to this threshold already in 2005. To reach this target the annual global CO2 emissions have to be reduced from about 28 Gigatons in 2006 to 20 Gigatons of CO2 by the year 2050 and to 10 Gigatons of CO2 by the year 2100 according to IPCC	Time for Change
3500 giga tonnes	The world’s coal reserves hold some 3500 gigatonnes of carbon, compared to the atmosphere currently holding around 800 gigatonnes (600 gigatonnes before the industrial revolution).	ClimateArk.org
150 bill. tonnes	Objection: According to the IPCC, 150 billion tonnes of carbon go into the atmosphere from natural processes every year. This is almost 30 times the amount of carbon humans emit. What difference can we make?	GristMill.org
1 giga ton	One gigaton is equivalent to 273 coal-fired electric generation plants with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS).	Reason.com
2002 330 million metric tons	A new NOAA study, appearing in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows how a prolonged drought in North America in 2002 cut the continent’s natural uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2) in half, leaving more than 360 million tons (330 million metric tons) more of the heat-trapping greenhouse gas in Earth’s atmosphere. The amount not absorbed that year is equivalent to annual emissions from more than 200 million U.S. automobiles.	ESRL
300 tons	Recent measurements at Mammoth Mountain indicate that the total rate of CO2 gas emission is close to 300 tons per day.	USGS
500 milli grams	For websites that are not audited, MoveNeutral offsets, on average, 500 milligrams of carbon dioxide emissions per page view.	MoveNeutral.com
0.1 gram of carbon	Here are some numbers, taken from books on exercise physiology. Fat, protein, and sugar all contain about 0.1 gram of carbon per food calorie consumed. So if you digest 2,000 calories of food (a typical daily diet for adults) then you take in about 200 grams of carbon. At rest, each breath exhales about 0.5 liter of air containing about 1 percent carbon, for about five milligrams per breath. After a day at 12 breaths per minute, you get rid of about 120 grams of carbon. Thats less than you ate, so youll gain weight.	Technology Review

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Greenpeace: Coalfinger vs. Gaverson Green (James Bond Parody)

noiv — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:37:58 +0000

Coalfinger

This animated Bond spoof features David Mitchell (C4s Peep Show) as secret agent Gaverson Green fighting to stop the evil plans of Coalfinger, voiced by Brian Blessed.

With a soundtrack by composer David Arnold (Quantum of Solace, Casino Royal).

More at : Coalfinger.com

Via: Ehrensenf.de
Visit:eon

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CO2 Emissions by Activity

noiv — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:28:21 +0000

Nearly any activity consumes energy and therefore forces emissions of CO2.

Of course using green energy is different. However, it is useful to know the emissions generated by different goods or activities.

Kick the Habit is a excellent guide to climate neutrality. Provided and produced by UNEP it is full of maps, examples, graphic and this chart.

The graphic beside gives a descriptive overview and you may easily find a point where to save energy the easy way. The graphic is available in the explorer, so just click and use your mouse (wheel) to explore. All given amount are in kilograms of CO2 equivalent.

Credits: UNEP/GRID-Arendal. Examples of GHG emission amounts generated by different activities or goods. UNEP/GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics Library. 2008. Available at: http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/examples-of-ghg-emission-amounts-generated-by-different-activities-or-goods. Accessed October 12, 2008.

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No Emergency Exit Foreseen

noiv — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:48:41 +0000

Aquecimento Global

via: ptfolio.com

Agência: McCann
Anunciante: Quercus
Directores Criativos: Diogo Anahory / José Carlos Bomtempo
Redactor: Diogo Anahory
Director de Arte: José Carlos Bomtempo
Tv Producer: Nuno Calado
Produtora: Seagulls Fly São Paulo
Som: Indigo

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ExploreOurPla.net goes 3D (still experimental)

noiv — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:37:41 +0000

The Google Earth Plugin turns browsers into full Earth browsers. Well, not supported is UNIX, Apple, but FireFox and Internet Explorer running on Windows 2000 or better. The API of the plugin is well supported and this site will have a progressing amount of features available in 3D. First achievement is the Daily Planet map provided by NASA’s OneEarth server.

The current implentation is far from complete and a lot of further work is ahead. Especially registered users will find out that the plugin does not allow to use the flyout menu any longer and switching maps is a challenge. Please log out in this case or prepare the geoLinks you need in advance. As an another aspect the overlays do not work with Google Earth as base map. However seeing the Planet is no longer flat is exciting. Expect far more improvement in usability and data soon.

The navigation is quite simple: just try all mouse buttons, double click or drag the globe.

geoLink 1515 links exclusively to the North Atlantic Ocean showing the daily status of upcoming hurricanes.

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