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...

Timelapse Video of Melting Arctic 2009
on Jul 5, 2009 in Blog Videos Cryosphere 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...

The Edge: Conversation with Gavin Schmidt
on Jul 4, 2009 in Blog Videos 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. \n\n...

Geological Map of Arctic
on May 13, 2009 in Environment Resources Economy Blog Cryosphere Available from Natural Resources Canada is 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 is same geologica...