Moby Plays 'Carbon Footprint' Swedish Gig - Spinner

The shaven-headed dance music maestro has launched a special concert campaign to raise awareness of the issue and convince fans to do reduce their carbon footprint.
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"It's almost like, not to be overly dramatic, but the long-term survival and the long term well-being of the human race is involved with climate change," he explained. "We all work under the assumption that as a species we're slowly moving forward to better things.

In his website blog Moby -- a committed vegan -- said he wanted to address the fact that nearly a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions is the result of rearing animals for human consumption.

"I asked Al Gore about why he didn't mention this in an 'inconvenient truth' (as animal production is responsible for more greenhouse gases than every car, bus, truck, bus, plane, boat on the planet COMBINED). He answered honestly, basically saying that getting people to drive a hybrid car isn't that difficult. Getting people to give up animal products is almost impossible. I appreciated his honesty.

newsminer.com • Fairbanks flirts with frost as early cold weather arrives

A temperature of 28 degrees was recorded at Eielson Air Force Base, breaking the old record of 33 degrees for the day, set in 1963. A new record low of 30 degrees was reported at the University of Alaska Fairbanks West Ridge. The old record was 32, set in 1963.

Greenpeace's sea ice 'mistake' delights climate change sceptics | Environment | guardian.co.uk

This is all sensible advice, especially given there's simply no need to exaggerate. The facts are scary enough, without having to resort to artificially magnifying them. Greenpeace will be bruised by this furore, but it should also see it as an instructive exercise in how best to engage with its critics.

Greenpeace's Director Busted For Lying About The Effects Of Global Warming

On July 15th, Greenpeace put out a press release saying the arctic ice caps would melt by 2030, a claim that Leipold now admits is false. Rather than own up, and say it was a mistake and he'd never let it happen again, he says Greenpeace is "a pressure group" that has to "emotionalize issues, and we're not ashamed" of it.

This is horrible. Imagine if an oil company executive, or the head of the American Petroleum Institute made the same concession.