Inspired by hucksters, Nicole DOES something

...We then calculated our school’s average yearly carbon footprint. 11,247 tons! I was shocked when I calculated this number. So we set out to do something. We needed this mural to MEAN something! SO, the title of our mural is “Our pledge to reduce our 11,247 ton yearly carbon footprint.’ Today, as global warming action day, many students showed up a lunch to put their foot shaped hand print on the black part of the mural, as their own pledge to reduce Rothesay High’s collective carbon footprint. These foot shaped hand-prints are done put making a fist and putting paint on the side of your first then using that as a print… It ends up looking like a foot and then you put toes on it.

Quality Control of pre-1948 Cooperative Observer Network Data « Watts Up With That?

...Putting together these B44 forms over the life of a station would enable the creation of a timeline that shows building and road proximity biases that may exist, which are just as important as catching the errors that creep into the human transcription of the data.

Rudd's emissions trading scheme faces double blow | The Australian

KEVIN Rudd's ambition of an emissions trading scheme in Australia by 2010 has suffered two setbacks, with both the Coalition and independent senator Nick Xenophon warning they may push for a delay.
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Hosting a greek barbecue at Parliament House today, Senator Xenophon told The Australian Online the Coalition may prove right to delay a scheme until 2012 or beyond if the model isn't changed.