This is a great set of visualisations - would be great to see the originals (which are 10 foot wide)
http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=7

For example,

“Depicts 11,000 jet trails, equal to the number of commercial flights in the US every eight hours. ”

And here’s a detail

As reported by the Washington Post
“President Bush has consistently called for the development of advanced technology to help meet the country’s energy needs and cut global-warming pollution without imposing a mandatory cap on emissions. ”

Not content with disagreeing that any form of limits should be placed, they don’t even accept the UN as a platform:

The United States also remains opposed to a statement that reads, “We acknowledge that the U.N. climate process is an appropriate forum for negotiating future global action on climate change.”

From the BBC

“… according to Dr Copland, the fact that such thick ice could split apart in less than an hour - as it did back in August 2005 - illustrates a more alarming point. “This shows how climate change can trigger very sudden changes even on a massive scale - when the ice shelf broke away, the rupture registered with the force of a small earthquake,” he said … According to Dr Mueller, “the difference now is that with the current rate of warming, those ice shelves are likely never to be reconstituted.”
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We just launched Amee - a framework for collaborative campaigning on Climate Change.

It’s an API on CO2 data and calculations, and for CO2 Footprint profiling. It’s designed to be used by as many campaigns and initiatives as possilbe.

Immense thanks go to the team for a huge amount of effort and dedication to create it.

We’ve had fantastic support from Defra and many other parties. We hope that this is the start of a great project and want to hear from everyone who’d like to get involved. We have a lot of work to do.

I gave a presentation at XTech yesterday, which I’m delighted was well received.

” The company’s goals are to reduce its operations’ carbon emissions significantly and to engage its 47,000 employees and its millions of readers, viewers and web users around the world on this issue. All News Corporation business units will become carbon neutral by 2010 … (and has joined The Climate Group).” (Yahoo News)

If you’d like to get involved, have a look ℵhere.