Carbon Footprint Reduction Services | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

There are numerous services that allow you to pay into a fund offset your carbon footprint. But how does it actually work?

Humans declared toxic | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

But what will trees use for food when carbon dioxide is eliminated.

Madness is on the hoof.

Get rid of ethanol subsidies, state's auditor says

Minnesota should get out of the business of subsidizing the state's ethanol industry, the Legislative Auditor's office said today.

Commentary: We must act on climate now | McClatchy

We face a similar choice today on climate change. The risk of a sudden shift in the world's climate seems slight - but it has happened many times in the Earth's long history, and the effects would be catastrophic and irreversible. By insurance standards, the risk is not slight - scientists put the chance of catastrophic temperature increases at 1 in 20. AIG thought its risk was much smaller - less than 1 in 1000 - but government regulators will not let them take that chance again.

We would not step off a curb if there was a 1 in 20 chance of getting hit by a truck. We would not get on a plane if 1 out of every 20 crashed. Yet if we do not take strong and immediate action to reduce the world's greenhouse gas emissions, we face a 1 in 20 chance that climate change will tear apart the economic, political and social fabric of the world. Can we muster the will to prevent it?

Clear scientific evidence, mounting daily, demonstrates that the economic, environmental and security costs of climate change will dwarf even the profound global impacts of today's economic turmoil. To take but one example, the Arctic ice cap, the engine of our weather system, may disappear completely within five summers. The consequences for farmers and others who depend on familiar weather patterns are impossible to predict, but they are unlikely to be good.
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Timothy E. Wirth is the president of the United Nations Foundation (www.unfoundation.org).