5% ??? Get outta here! Time to Get up!

I’ve  just donated a few bucks to get this advertisment shown on TV at the Boxing Day cricket match.
Get up!:
Even as he was announcing woefully inadequate climate targets on Monday, Prime Minister Rudd was setting aside over $130 million for an ‘information campaign’ to sell us his sparse climate package. Doesn’t [...]

Enrique Peñalosa

PS: Enrique Peñalosa is speaking in Brisbane on the 7th of February. The event is booked out. If you are attending or know of any reports, pictures or notes from it afterwards – please drop me line. Thanks.

Where I live

KEEN – Big Bob and Joe Natoli show down
This was a good night (sorry not such a good photo) at Noosa Gallery – a meeting of Noosa’s Knowledge Entrepreneurs to pick the brains of the mayoral candidates for the post-amalgamation Noosa-Maroochydore-Caloundra Super Shire.
Coinciding with this I came across Enrique Peñalosa – former mayor of Bogota, [...]

Basic Risk Management applied to Climate Destabilisation

Science teacher superstar explaining where it all ends.
Watch this video. Give him the time.
It’s time for the best of us to come out!

Bali summit applauds Rudd.

So do I.
Good write up by Crikey: Bali summit applauds Rudd.

Oh! Google to get involved in sustainable energy production!

Via ‘O’Reilly Radar’:
Google is going to invest tens of millions in renewable energy. The aim of yesterday’s announced RE<C is to produce a Gigawatt of renewable energy cheaper than coal.
All systems go!
A Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG).

Step by step: Peter Singer ‘A Fair Deal on Climate Change

from Project Syndicate

Establish the total amount of greenhouse gases that we can allow to be emitted without causing the earth’s average temperature to rise more than two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), the point beyond which climate change could become extremely dangerous.
Divide that total by the world’s population, thus calculating what each person’s share of [...]

Am I going to drown?

Having an after school cup of tea with Hillary yesterday she told me about an article she read saying the polar ice caps are supposed to be gone, finished, kaputt by 2020.
So having bought a new house I wondered if we’ll still be dry.
I found this nifty google maps app showing projected sea level [...]

Love Miles

…”But one idea in Heat that will gain momentum is that of ‘love miles’, analogous to the ‘food miles’ that are already part of the language. These are the miles we travel to be with far-flung friends and family, so feeding the aviation industry which is the world’s fastest-growing source of greenhouse gases. Monbiot offers [...]

Uh – Oh , this is good stuff on climate change:

From Friends of the Earth reader contributions to the Big Climate Debate.
I hope Andrew Tweedie doesn’t mind my copy and paste. I just loved his questions:
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Since Solar radiation at Saharaian latitudes delivers 300% more energy /heat than in the UK and, according to the German Fed Gov report (see link via www.trec-uk.org.uk) only 10% is [...]