Q. and A.: Greening the London Olympics - NYTimes.com

We’ve never said “carbon neutral”; instead we’ve said “low carbon” because obviously you can’t eliminate or mitigate all the emissions. Based on our carbon footprinting exercise, which we did as part of our planning process, we determined which aspects would have the biggest impact and focused on avoidance.

Carbon is a useful proxy because if you are saving carbon, you are also typically saving money and reducing waste. But it’s not a sustainability metric on its own because we considered other factors as I’ve already mentioned, like social and economic ones. Over all, we’re convinced that the net benefit of the games and transforming the site will be vastly superior to any negative environmental impacts.

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[Fair-and-balanced, completely objective, no-axe-to-grind mainstream journalist Suzanne Goldenberg] Can't wait. Sen Bernie Sanders takes to floor today to call out Sen Jim Inhofe on climate change denial.

Sizing Up Antarctica's [alleged] Glacial Melt by The Globalist - The Globalist

If you were to take the roughly 240 cubic miles (1,000 cubic km) of melt water generated by Antarctica's glaciers since 2002 and spread it evenly over the entire United States (an area of about 3,794 million square miles, or 9,827 million square km), or similarly sized China (3,706 million square miles, or 9,597 million square km), it would rise to a height of 4 inches, according to calculations by Gernot Wagner of the Environmental Defense Fund.

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