Global Carbon “Footprint” by Nation | The Big Picture: Just in case you had not seen this really cool chart from a year ago… Here’s the BIG FOOT, big picture of emissions by country. Note that China has now outpaced the US based on pretty much any measure of emissions you might want to consider. They now burn half the worlds coal, adding on a new coal power plant every few days (about 5 last…
Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming – WSJ.com: Interesting group who signed off on this. Certainly there are smarter things to do and less-smart things to do related to becoming sustainable. In some cases (many cases) the best way to sustainability is to bring a developing economy up out of poverty: you’re not very concerned about the environment if/when you are struggling to stay alive. It should be interesting to see…
Why Are Americans So Ill-Informed about Climate Change?: Scientific American: ‘via Blog this’ I came upon this as I was building a WikiBook on Sustainability and Climate change. Wikipedia has a great coverage of Climate Change and it includes this great article. It is interesting how we Americans are being dragged, kicking and screaming, into a low(er) carbon world. Much of the rest of the developed world has been working on lower emissions for more…
Bonian Golmohammadi: Why We Need a Global Environmental Organization: This article seems to do a good job of organizing the current research. It builds a good case for global action. The global organization is needed, yes. But that is part of the problem. The dysfunction of individual governments is amplified many, many times when it comes to global organizations such as the UN. I think that a big part of the denier ideology is the…
A Year for the Record Books | Planet3.0: ‘via Blog this’ This to us from MacDonald from GreenDistrict… It is one of several places to start rounding up the status of sustainability (gain &) loss for 2011 and start to plan for 2012. As we start to organize the (un)balanced scorecard for an unsustainable year of horrific sustainability numbers… ?What would be a good summary for the year, even if the summary has a lot…
Warming gases show worst jump: Ouch!:-( This is the worst of the worst-case scenarios. Ugly, ugly, ugly. ‘via Blog this’
