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From the Climate Reality Project: (h/t David Appell) Related posts (randomly generated) Renewable energy is bullshit… literally

Over at collide-a-scape Keith has inadvertently stumbled upon an interesting observation from an article in the Guardian which states: The world’s cities have seen a 45% increase in population since 1992, according to the Global Footprint Network, and urban residents typically have a much larger carbon footprint than their rural

Now with more globe-y-goodness Isn’t it pretty? This new fancy 3-ball was created by Ali Lupu. Go check out his other work and while you are over at his place tell him to hurry up and release his amazingly illustrated children’s book! Related posts (randomly generated) What is in a name?

If you put all the water on Earth in one place it would look like this: Yes that is a lot of water, but compared with the rest of the planet it really is a tiny ball via Boing Boing Related posts (randomly generated) The coming water crisis Bush’s Vulcan

Canada has no real plan to meet its stated 2020 GHG emissions goals, and has no idea how much its hodgepodge of sector specific regulations will cost. In his latest report, Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development Scott Vaughan says Canada would need to reduce emissions by 178 million

XKCD is always a great way to cheer up on a Monday morning. Here is just a snip from the latest brilliant comic that is sure to please at least some Planet3.0 readers: Related posts (randomly generated) Lost in Deep Time with Richard Alley Steroids, baseball, and climate change

I think Tamino is right: Some have criticized Microsoft for “supporting” the so-called “Heartland Institute.” The basis of this is that Microsoft provides free software because the so-called “Heartland Institute” is, at present, legally classified as a nonprofit organization. There have even been suggestions to pressure Microsoft no longer to

By now the news is stale, but on Friday Heartland pulled down the highly offensive billboards comparing the acceptance of mainstream climate science with such despicable people as the Unabomber. They, however, refuse to apologize: We do not apologize for running the ad, and we will continue to experiment with ways to communicate

This absurd and extreme guilt by association that Heartland is pushing should be countered by making it abundantly just clear how absolutely absurd it really is. And while we are at it why not make people laugh a little. (image via Dan Johnson on Facebook) Related posts (randomly generated) Prawngate: Monckton tries to censor

TransCanada applies for Keystone XL pipeline permit: TransCanada Corp has asked the U.S. government for approval to build the $7.6 billion Keystone XL oil pipeline which has been put on hold due to environmental concerns. Is anyone surprised? Related posts (randomly generated) About those radical foreign interests opposed to the

In a press conference, Environment Minister Peter Kent said that the perceptions of scientists being muzzled has been caused by journalists who want to set their own agenda of who they talk to and when. Yes it is simple. If Journalists would just stop asking questions, the government wouldn’t have

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David Appell spots a nice little calculation in the recently published  Levitus 2012 paper on ocean heat content: We have estimated an increase of 24 x 1022 J representing a volume mean warming of 0.09°C of the 0-2000 m layer of the World Ocean. If this heat were instantly transferred to the lower 10

John Nielsen-Gammon takes a look at claims that the mean surface temperature has stopped warming: There aren’t that many full-blown El Niño events, but they seem to be following a steady upward trend. There are more La Niña events, and they too clearly follow a steady upward trend. Finally, the

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… Pass climate change legislation. Via Nature news and the BBC. Related posts (randomly generated) Republicans block FISA talks Green Party Adopts Net Neutrality in Policy Platform Who knows more about nuclear safety, Harper or the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission The tradition of inaction continues The environmental costs of the

If people believe that sustainability and economic growth are incompatible then why would their place their bets with economic growth? I asked this on Twitter, Google+ and Facebook, but figured there is a decent chance that the Planet3.0 community will provide a better answer. But just in case I will

I have never been a fan of earth hour and was contemplating writing an article explaining why I find it is pointless, but Maggie Koerth-Baker saved me the trouble: This Saturday, thousands of people will voluntarily spend an evening without electrictricity. No lights. No television. No computers. They’ll eat dinner by candlelight, maybe

  Even the mighty Thor was unable to prevent the collapse of Norse civilization in Greenland Many in the climate/sustainability world are understandably preoccupied with the notion of collapse. After all, it is reasonably argued that if we do not change the course of our civilization then collapse is inevitable.