E-PRTR - European CO2 Emitting Facilities
on Nov 18, 2009 in Environment Blog Pollution Emissions Earlier this month the European Environment Agency (EEA) gave access to information on emissions from European industrial facilities. Included are annual data for 91 substances and more than 24 000 facilities in 65 economic activities. The around 36...

Rosetta pictures Antarctica during Gravitational Slingshot
on Nov 16, 2009 in Blog Earthviews Space Views This image was acquired by the Rosetta Orbiter Imaging System OSIRIS from a distance of 350 000 km at 22:28 UTC 12th November. The resolution is 6.5 km/pixel. The mission is named after the famous ‘Rosetta Stone‘ and refers to an import...

Tokyo and Manhattan flooded
on Nov 14, 2009 in Environment Blog Consequences Some when in the future - maybe this century - a apocalyptic event flooded both megacities, water level is around 10m higher, fish is cheap and cellphone still operate. See the full set of pictures released by Studio Lindfors at flickr. via: BLDGBLO...

Bedtime Story Controversy in United Kingdom
on Nov 7, 2009 in Blog Kids Campaigns 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 cinem...

Kilimanjaro
on Nov 4, 2009 in Environment Blog Consequences Cryosphere 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...

350.org: Planet too hot for Supermodels
on Nov 2, 2009 in Blog Videos Campaigns 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. Featurin...

They come back to Town
on Aug 20, 2009 in Blog Videos 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 M...

More Arctic Melting
on Jul 26, 2009 in Blog Earthviews Cryosphere 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...

G8: Percentages, Degrees done. Tons left over for Copenhagen
on Jul 13, 2009 in Environment Blog Politics 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 t...

Spam, Energy and Entropy
on Jul 13, 2009 in Environment Blog Energy 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 milli...