Calculating the carbon footprint of President Obama’s Olympic trip

Grand Total: 8,379 tons CO2 for trip to Copenhagen

By comparison, the average American household has a carbon footprint of 19.5 tons of CO2 per year.

Therefore, President Obama's two day trip deposited as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 430 American families do in an entire year.

Most people in denial over climate change, according to psychologists - Telegraph

The majority of people in Britain are in denial about the risk of global warming in our lifetimes, according to a new study into the psychology of climate change.
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However Clive Hamilton, Professor of public ethics at the Australian National University, said the majority of the population is still in denial about the risks of climate change.

He compared the situation to the psychology of the British and German populations before the Second World War and said the only way to make people change their behaviour is to "ramp up the fear factor."

Climate change [allegedly] wiping out walruses - Telegraph

Mr York said he had observed 20,000 walruses congregating on the shore of Russia's Cape Schmidt last month and warned the animals, who feed on seafood from the ocean floor, could run out of food when they are in large groups.

Walrus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In the non-reproductive season (late summer and fall) the walrus tends to migrate away from the ice and form massive aggregations of tens of thousands of individuals on rocky beaches or outcrops. The nature of the migration between the reproductive period and the summer period can be a rather long distance and dramatic. In late spring and summer, for example, several hundred thousand Pacific Walruses migrate from the Bering sea into the Chukchi sea through the relatively narrow Bering Strait.