tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-388962642024-03-13T08:59:41.977-07:00A Random Man on Planet EarthEnvironmental bits and piecesKnowledge is Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054370670337869198noreply@blogger.comBlogger353125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38896264.post-79051955705729331932011-11-03T23:44:00.000-07:002011-11-03T23:49:15.246-07:00Green business needs to reach further<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-q7N8717nJ4c/TrOItm1eFNI/AAAAAAAAA_0/xK_vVykNS9g/s1600/giraffe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" ida="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-q7N8717nJ4c/TrOItm1eFNI/AAAAAAAAA_0/xK_vVykNS9g/s400/giraffe.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: white;">.</span><br />
As the ‘low hanging fruit’ becomes increasingly difficult to find, only businesses that have evolved the ability to reach the higher fruit will survive.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">PAJ Environmental Consulting provides environmental and natural resources management consulting services to help individuals, businesses and organisations adapt and move towards a sustainable future.</span>Knowledge is Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054370670337869198noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38896264.post-46097921457420703442011-08-09T02:39:00.000-07:002011-08-09T02:47:39.633-07:00Australia's new Carbon Price Legislation (draft)<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Men5BVhjmmE/TkECCLDFU4I/AAAAAAAAA_w/nSu8hhFazeY/s1600/wind.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" naa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Men5BVhjmmE/TkECCLDFU4I/AAAAAAAAA_w/nSu8hhFazeY/s320/wind.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
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Australia's new Carbon Price Legislation has today been released in draft form:<br />
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It is available<a href="http://www.climatechange.gov.au/government/submissions/clean-energy-legislative-package/~/media/publications/clean-energy-legislation/exposure-draft-clean-energy-bill-2011-pdf.pdf"> here</a><br />
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Well worth a read!<br />
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<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2009/08/australias-biodiversity-and-climate.html">Biodiversity and Climate Change</a><br />
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<a href="http://pajenvironmentalconsulting.blogspot.com/">PAJ Environmental Consulting</a><br />
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Comments are always welcome!!Knowledge is Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054370670337869198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38896264.post-9715656034961838132011-07-10T18:27:00.000-07:002011-07-10T18:55:41.325-07:00Australia's Clean Energy Future<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cleanenergyfuture.gov.au/clean-energy-future/"><img border="0" height="320" m$="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-feEwzGnVxkI/ThpTNP6QDFI/AAAAAAAAA_o/Kd7RyBKGEfg/s320/Clean+Energy+Future+report.jpg" width="224" /></a></div>Here is the new Climate Change Policy announced by Julia Gillard yesterday.<br />
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<a href="http://www.cleanenergyfuture.gov.au/">Clean Energy Future homepage:</a><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cleanenergyfuture.gov.au/clean-energy-future/our-plan/"><img border="0" height="107" m$="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZG32AgEyUd0/ThpWBi8qIvI/AAAAAAAAA_s/FMC75Q1nwI0/s320/plan+pic.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<a href="http://www.cleanenergyfuture.gov.au/clean-energy-future/securing-a-clean-energy-future/">Securing a clean energy future – The Australian Government’s climate change plan</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.cleanenergyfuture.gov.au/clean-energy-future/our-plan/securing-a-clean-energy-future-in-summary/">Securing a clean energy future – The Australian Government’s climate change plan in summary</a> <br />
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<a href="http://www.cleanenergyfuture.gov.au/clean-energy-future/our-plan/supporting-australian-households/">Supporting Australian households – helping households move to a clean energy future</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.cleanenergyfuture.gov.au/clean-energy-future/our-plan/clean-energy-australia/">Clean energy Australia – investing in the clean energy sources of the future</a><br />
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<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2009/08/australias-biodiversity-and-climate.html">Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change</a><br />
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<a href="http://pajenvironmentalconsulting.blogspot.com/">PAJ Environmental Consulting</a><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>"Providing interdisciplinary solutions to enhance and sustain the natural, built and social environment"</strong></span>Knowledge is Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054370670337869198noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38896264.post-22948115738684212242011-06-15T17:55:00.000-07:002011-06-15T19:38:13.986-07:00The 'Garnaut Review 2011'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.garnautreview.org.au/update-2011/garnaut-review-2011/garnaut-review-2011.pdf"><img border="0" height="273" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JZiSHglZ3xE/TflM08jbC9I/AAAAAAAAA_g/rNzP_bTNgnI/s320/Garnuat+review+2011.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Here is the final report from the economist Professor Ross Garnaut (<a href="http://www.garnautreview.org.au/update-2011/garnaut-review-2011/garnaut-review-2011.pdf">available here</a>) called "<strong>Garnaut Review 2011: Australia in the Global Response to Climate Change</strong>".</div><br />
First here is the man himself:<br />
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<blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>"The final report of the update process, is the product of seven months of careful research, analysis, expert studies and consultation, which have examined key developments in the past two and a half years across a range of areas—the climate science, global greenhouse gas emissions, international progress on climate change mitigation, Australia’s land and electricity sectors, innovation and technology, and carbon pricing. Eight detailed update papers were released between February and March 2011. Two supplementary notes came out at the same time as this book. These materials and other supporting information can be found on the Garnaut Climate Change Review website at </em><a href="http://www.garnautreview.org.au/"><em>http://www.garnautreview.org.au/</em></a><em>."</em> </div><br />
Ross Garnaut</blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Review is well worth a read for anyone interested in the issue of Climate Change and Australia. It is fairly easy to read, but if you are short on time, I would suggest reading the introduction as it gives a good summary of the review. </div><br />
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(Part 3) Australia's Transformations<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">I also saw Professor Ross Garnaut speaking at the National Press Club to launch the report. He presented the main points well and overall gave a great speech. Still, I think that rather than the 'let the facts speak for themselves' approach, he might be better to use some tricks from environmental psychology to get his message across. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.garnautreview.org.au/update-2011/events-speeches/transcript-final-report-launch.pdf">Transcript of the National Press Club address here</a> </div><br />
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<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2008/12/garnaut-on-cprs.html">Garnaut on the CPRS</a> <br />
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<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2008/12/garnaut-not-happy-with-australias.html">Garnaut not happy</a> <br />
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<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2008/10/garnaut-climate-change-review.html">Garnaut Climate Change Review</a>Knowledge is Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054370670337869198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38896264.post-7545283816975746442011-05-23T00:37:00.000-07:002011-05-23T00:37:37.382-07:00Australia's new Climate Change Report<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RIDSLb0l7mA/TdoNkINF_BI/AAAAAAAAA_c/FXiseKaF9Es/s1600/cover+image+060.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="274" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RIDSLb0l7mA/TdoNkINF_BI/AAAAAAAAA_c/FXiseKaF9Es/s320/cover+image+060.bmp" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A new report on Climate Change was released today by Australia's <a href="http://climatecommission.govspace.gov.au/">Climate Commission</a>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The report is called "<strong><em><a href="http://climatecommission.govspace.gov.au/files/2011/05/4108-CC-Science-Update-PRINT-CHANGES.pdf">The Critical Decade: Climate science, risks and response</a></em></strong>".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div><em><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Over many decades thousands of scientists have painted an unambiguous picture: the global climate is changing and humanity is almost surely the primary cause. The risks have never been clearer and the case for action has never been more urgent.</em></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><br />
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<a href="http://climatecommission.govspace.gov.au/2011/05/23/the-critical-decade/">The critical debate page</a> <br />
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<a href="http://climatecommission.govspace.gov.au/files/2011/05/4108-CC-Science-Update-PRINT-CHANGES.pdf">Full report available here</a><br />
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<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2010/03/climate-change-in-australia-website-and.html">Climate Change in Australia</a><br />
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<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2009/08/australias-biodiversity-and-climate.html">Australia's biodiversity and Climate Change</a><br />
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<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2009/08/great-barrier-reef-loss-of-value-due-to.html">Great Barrier Reef loss of value due to Climate Change</a><br />
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<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2009/02/australias-bush-fires-natural-disaster.html">Australia's bush fires</a><br />
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<strong>COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOME !!</strong><br />
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<span style="color: red;">So please, tell us what you think.</span><br />
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This Sunday (May 23, 2011) is <strong>World Turtle Day</strong>. I will be heading down to Bondi Beach to build my own turtle.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.wilderness.org.au/articles/world-turtle-day-save-our-flatbacks"><img border="0" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FM2viZo60GE/TdR-4xAaZdI/AAAAAAAAA_Q/lzl5XEbaCeY/s1600/turtle+day+01.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Here is the blurb from the Wilderness Society:<br />
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<blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>On <strong>Sunday May 23rd</strong>, several environmental organisations across northern Australia are connecting to participate in a joint event on <strong>World Turtle Day</strong>. All around the beaches of northern Australia, groups and individuals will be building flatback turtles from sand to send Environment Minister Peter Garrett the message 'Save Our Flatbacks'.</em></div></blockquote><span style="color: white;">.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.wilderness.org.au/articles/world-turtle-day-save-our-flatbacks">More information here</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2007/10/poor-turtle.html"><img border="0" height="243" j8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zX_gvJEGV68/TdR_U3fU3WI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/x4YblsHMSW0/s400/sea-turtle-deformed.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Knowledge is Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054370670337869198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38896264.post-1548995954675808372011-03-30T23:58:00.000-07:002011-03-31T02:37:18.265-07:00New Journal - NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE - Part TWO<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n-Bu7Elqruw/TZQjPTEvdgI/AAAAAAAAA_M/ffK_W1Sl5u8/s1600/journalcover_2011_04.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" r6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n-Bu7Elqruw/TZQjPTEvdgI/AAAAAAAAA_M/ffK_W1Sl5u8/s1600/journalcover_2011_04.gif" /></a></div><br />
<strong>Picture</strong>: Cover of the new journal <strong>Nature Climate Change</strong><br />
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I decided to break this post into two parts (as it got a bit long).<br />
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<a href="http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v1/n1/full/nclimate1056.html">Overstretching attribution</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">This is a fantastic paper! It really made me think about the claim that biodiversity is responding to human induced climate change (e.g. earlier flowering or migration of animals). But is biodiversity behaviour itself good evidence of human induced climate change? After all, biodiversity will adapt to normal changes in climate. But a study in 2003 shows that while some species do show a strong response to a change in climate (57%), some showed no change (32%) and some showed behaviour in the opposite direction (11%). This is mainly due to "<em>basic differences in species' sensitivity to climate</em>". Hmmm, this really demonstrates that we need to be careful that we don't overstretch attribution of human induced climate change, especially if we only select cherries from the data (remember there are somewhere between 30 and 100 million different species on the planet).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The other problems are that "<em>human forcing of the climate is only detectable on large spatial scales, yet organisms experience local climate</em>" and there is "<em>a complex interplay among habitat destruction, land-use change, exploitation and pollution, in addition to climate change</em>".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The authors "<em>propose concentrating on assessment of the interacting roles of climate and other environmental factors, regardless of the causes of the climate events or trends</em>" rather than trying to find more proof/evidence of human-induced climate change. Well worth a read!!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v1/n1/full/nclimate1080.html">The role of social and decision sciences in communicating uncertain climate risks</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I really looked forward to this paper as science communication, and social/decision sciences are particular interests of mine. It didn't let me down! The paper looks at the challenge of communicating uncertain climate risks and suggests that the answer is "<strong><em>strategic listening</em></strong>" rather than yet another poorly targeted climate change campaign which has "<em>little chance of sustained success</em>" and which has the effect of "<em>eroding both the public's trust in the experts, who seem not to know their needs, and the experts' trust in the public, which seems unable to understand the issues</em>".<br />
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It also suggests that what is needed is "<em>contributions from cross-disciplinary teams, working within an institutional framework that provides support for their efforts. Such teams would include, at minimum, climate and other experts, decision scientists, social and communications specialists, and programme designers</em>". Music to my ears! This paper is well written and definately worth a read.</div><br />
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<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-journal-nature-climate-change.html">New Journal - NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE (Part ONE)</a><br />
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So please, tell us what you think!Knowledge is Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054370670337869198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38896264.post-52475136048932387652011-03-29T16:09:00.000-07:002011-03-29T22:24:28.787-07:00New Book on Climate Change by Robert Repetto<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-z1QeO8wEizA/TZJnH-7GPbI/AAAAAAAAA_I/26lEFqhhuSY/s1600/ropertto.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" r6="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-z1QeO8wEizA/TZJnH-7GPbI/AAAAAAAAA_I/26lEFqhhuSY/s1600/ropertto.jpg" style="cursor: move;" unselectable="on" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><strong>Picture</strong>: Cover of the Robert Repetto's new book America's Climate Problem<br />
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Robert Repetto has released a new book on Climate Change called <a href="http://www.earthscan.co.uk/Portals/0/pdfs/Repetto_extract.pdf">America's Climate Problem: The Way Forward</a>. Note: as a taste, the publisher 'Earthscan' has released Chapter 6 on <strong>Winning the Battle Over Climate Policy. </strong><br />
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The free chapter alone is worth a look! It was interested to see the five lines of defence used by Climate Change denialists (my summary of pages 153-154).<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="color: black;">1st line of defence is denial: <strong>'It's not true; the science is flawed or incomplete'</strong></span></em></div></blockquote><br />
<blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="color: black;">2nd line of defence:<strong> 'It may be happening but it’s not harmful'</strong>.</span></em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="color: black;">3rd line of defence: <strong>'It may be happening but we can’t stop it'</strong>.</span></em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="color: black;">4th line of defence: (the economic arguments) <strong>‘It may be happening and may cause some harm, but trying to stop it would cost far more damage to the economy and is therefore not worth doing.’</strong> </span></em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="color: black;">5th line of defence: <strong>‘the costs should fall on somebody else, not on me.’</strong> </span></em></div></blockquote><span style="color: white;">.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.earthscan.co.uk/Portals/0/pdfs/Repetto_extract.pdf">Read more here</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2008/10/americans-and-climate-change.html">Americans and climate change</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2008/12/combating-climate-change-and-boosting.html">Combating Climate Change and Boosting Growth Are Natural Allies</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Comments always welcome!</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Please tell us what you think. </div><img height="96" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-z1QeO8wEizA/TZJnH-7GPbI/AAAAAAAAA_I/26lEFqhhuSY/s1600/ropertto.jpg" style="filter: alpha(opacity=30); left: 448px; mozopacity: 0.3; opacity: 0.3; position: absolute; top: 279px; visibility: hidden;" width="64" />Knowledge is Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054370670337869198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38896264.post-70480603252330492052011-03-29T15:50:00.000-07:002011-03-31T02:40:06.856-07:00New Journal - NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE - Part ONE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZOBDOdpBSY0/TZJgD5p7aGI/AAAAAAAAA_E/GXQOzy_jgiI/s1600/journalcover_2011_04.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" r6="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZOBDOdpBSY0/TZJgD5p7aGI/AAAAAAAAA_E/GXQOzy_jgiI/s1600/journalcover_2011_04.gif" /></a></div><br />
<strong>Picture</strong>: Cover of the new journal Nature Climate Change<br />
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Here is a link to a new journal called <strong><a href="http://www.nature.com/nclimate/current_issue.html">Nature Climate Change</a></strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">I have now had a good read of the <a href="http://www.nature.com/nclimate/current_issue.html">Nature Climate Change</a> Journal and it definately has some very interesting papers that may be useful to others including:</div><br />
<a href="http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v1/n1/full/nclimate1076.html">It isn't easy being green</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">How much do our friends influence our behaviour? This article looks at some of the psychological aspects of being green. Plus, I love the use of the Kermit the frog quote used by psychologist Dr Paul Stern "<em>it isn't easy being green</em>". It also argues that social science has a lot to offer when it comes to making society more green. This is not a huge suprise to me, given that people and society are involved in human induced climate change. </div><br />
<a href="http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v1/n1/full/nclimate1071.html">Time to try Carbon labelling</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">"<em>A Global Carbon-labelling scheme for consumer products</em>" it is argued could help people select the lower Carbon option when shopping. Economic rational thinking suggests that people make their decisions based on full knowledge of the product. However, the Carbon price is not included information at this time. With this missing information, consumers will hopefully make better decisions. "<em>Labels are a well established method for providing information</em>", but are people willing to pay more for lower Carbon products or will more information pale when compared to choosing a cheaper (more carbon intensive) option? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The authors admit that labels alone won't solve a complex problem, but they will give the consumer (and supply chains) the option to select a lower Carbon alternative. They conclude "<em>The size of the consumer footprint suggests that only small shifts in purchasing behaviour could yeild large emissions reductions</em>". Is greener consumption part of the answer (ecological modernisation) or is it a part of the problem ('green business as usual' from a deep green perspective)? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It also makes the point that firms may make changes and obtain positive reputation impacts, even if consumers don't change their behaviour in response to these Carbon labels. Also the complexities of Carbon labels is discussed (e.g. the need to include full life cycle analysis) and the fact that the <strong>ISO 14067</strong> is being developed as a standard for world-wide usage. Interesting paper!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are many more articles that may be of interest to other (e.g. "The Future of Food").</div><br />
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<strong>Picture:</strong> Smoke rising from the Fukushima Reactor in Japan<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Below is a link to a piece written by <a href="http://fsi.stanford.edu/people/charlesperrow/">Charles Perrow</a> on the background and situation at the nuclear plants in Japan. It came through the Envirosoc listserver. He is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology and an expert on the sociology of risk. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He wrote "<strong><a href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9442.html">The Next Catastrophe</a></strong>" and "<strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Normal-Accidents-Living-High-Risk-Technologies/dp/0691004129">Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies</a></strong>". (Note: Now both on my list of books to read).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>As I noted in a recent book, The Next Catastrophe (Princeton, 2011), we continue to populate our planet with systems that have catastrophic potential. We have vulnerable concentrations of populations, economic power, and hazardous materials. The most fearful concentrations of hazardous materials are in nuclear power plants.</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>We have yet to face up to the enormous risks of nuclear power plants. Japan is the current case in point. Known risks were run regarding earthquakes, plant layout, and engineering design, all assuming that the “worst case” event would be a rare outlier. I will take each in turn.</em></div></blockquote><span style="color: white;">.</span><br />
<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/alanrudy/charlesperrowonfukushimareactors">More here</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Kates, Robert W., ed. 2010. <strong><a href="http://www.hks.harvard.edu/var/ezp_site/storage/fckeditor/file/pdfs/centers-programs/centers/cid/publications/faculty/wp/213.pdf">Readings in Sustainability Science and Technology</a></strong>. CID Working Paper No. 213. Center for International Development, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, December 2010.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>Abstract:</strong> This Reader is one possible set of materials for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students of sustainability science. It consists of links to 93 articles or book chapters from which appropriate readings and internet sources can be chosen. Many of these can be downloaded, others need to be sought through University libraries. These are organized around three major domains of sustainability science: Part 1: an overview of sustainable development; Part 2: the emerging science and technology of sustainability; and Part 3: the innovative solutions and grand challenges of moving this knowledge into action.</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>The Readings begins with the history of sustainable development and its many concepts. Among these are the dual goals of sustainable development—the promotion of human development and well-being while protecting the earth’s life support systems. Thus, the current status, long-term trends, and impacts of nine essentials for human well-being and seven of the essential life support systems are examined. Part 1 concludes with the interactions of human society and the life support systems as these have been sketched—simply, realistically, and imaginatively.</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Part 2 of the Reader focuses on what, why, and how to do sustainability science and technology. It begins with three essential qualities of the emerging science: its use or needs orientation, focus on human-environment systems, and goal of integrated understanding. As a science in support of a sustainability transition, it is clearly value-driven and a second section of this Part considers the science of identifying and analyzing values and attitudes. The third and fourth sections examine the current practice of the science, the analyses undertaken, and the distinctive methods and models used.</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong></strong> </div><a href="http://www.cid.harvard.edu/sustsci/index.html"><strong>Professor William C. Clark</strong></a></blockquote><br />
</div><blockquote>Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development<br />
Harvard Kennedy School of Government<br />
Harvard University</blockquote><br />
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Here is what President Obama said during his State of the Union address:<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><em><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>We'll invest in biomedical research, information technology, and <strong>especially clean energy technology</strong> — an investment that will strengthen our security, protect our planet, and <a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-green-jobs.html">create countless new jobs</a> for our people.</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Already, we're seeing the promise of renewable energy. Robert and Gary Allen are brothers who run a small Michigan roofing company. After September 11th, they volunteered their best roofers to help repair the Pentagon. But half of their factory went unused, and the recession hit them hard. Today, with the help of a government loan, that empty space is being used to manufacture solar shingles that are being sold all across the country. In Robert's words, "We reinvented ourselves."</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>That's what Americans have done for over 200 years: reinvented ourselves. And to spur on more success stories like the Allen Brothers, we've begun to reinvent our energy policy. We're not just handing out money. We're issuing a challenge. We're telling America's scientists and engineers that if they assemble teams of the best minds in their fields, and focus on the hardest problems in clean energy, we'll fund the Apollo projects of our time.</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>At the California Institute of Technology, they're developing a way to turn sunlight and water into fuel for our cars. At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, they're using supercomputers to get a lot more power out of our nuclear facilities. With more research and incentives, we can break our dependence on oil with biofuels, and become the first country to have a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>We need to get behind this innovation. And to help pay for it, <strong>I'm asking Congress to eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies</strong>. I don't know if — I don't know if you've noticed, but they're doing just fine on their own. So instead of subsidizing yesterday's energy, let's invest in tomorrow's.</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Now, clean energy breakthroughs will only translate into clean energy jobs if businesses know there will be a market for what they're selling. So tonight, I challenge you to join me in setting a new goal: By 2035, 80 percent of America's electricity will come from clean energy sources.</em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>Some folks want wind and solar. Others want nuclear, clean coal and natural gas. To meet this goal, we will need them all — and I urge Democrats and Republicans to work together to make it happen</strong>.</em></div></blockquote></em></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">It is interesting that Obama includes nuclear power as a clean energy source. The main challenge for him will be to get these ideas (e.g. such as <em>"eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies"</em>) through the Congress, given the increased number of Republican politicians in it. However, he does speak of the creation of 'green' jobs (also protecting the planet and US energy security) with this 'clean energy' investment and given the political need for job creation in the United States, it may get some traction. We will have to wait and see how it all plays out. </div><br />
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<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2008/10/americans-and-climate-change.html">Americans and climate change</a><br />
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<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-green-jobs.html">New Green jobs??</a><br />
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<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2008/12/splitting-jobs-versus-environment.html">Splitting jobs versus the environment</a><br />
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<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2010/03/open-letter-from-scientists-in-united.html">An Open Letter from Scientists in the United States on the IPCC</a><strong></strong><br />
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Please tell us what you think.Knowledge is Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054370670337869198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38896264.post-63727138567764996852010-12-29T03:09:00.000-08:002010-12-29T03:58:24.521-08:00King Parrot in the wild<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/TRsXyh7fOMI/AAAAAAAAA-I/HfFYemBdSu0/s1600/King%2BParrot%2Bmid.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 342px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 187px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5556060722160416962" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/TRsXyh7fOMI/AAAAAAAAA-I/HfFYemBdSu0/s320/King%2BParrot%2Bmid.jpg" /></a>Photo supplied by: <a href="http://pajenvironmentalconsulting.blogspot.com/">PAJ Environmental Consulting</a><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/TRsXStRDNvI/AAAAAAAAA-A/LWFF0T11U7s/s1600/King%2BParrot%2Bclose.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5556060175447832306" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/TRsXStRDNvI/AAAAAAAAA-A/LWFF0T11U7s/s320/King%2BParrot%2Bclose.jpg" /></a> Photo supplied by: <a href="http://pajenvironmentalconsulting.blogspot.com/">PAJ Environmental Consulting</a><br /><br /><div align="justify">Male Australian King Parrots are the only Australian parrots with a completely red head.<br /><br />This King Parrot was photographed in Killcare (Central Coast, New South Wales).<br /><br /><strong>** If you enjoyed this post <span style="color:#ff0000;">please</span> also check out:<br /></strong><br /><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2008/09/saving-superb-parrot.html">Saving the Superb Parrot</a><br /><br /><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2008/06/orange-bellied-parrot.html">Orange Bellied Parrot</a><br /><br /><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2009/08/australias-biodiversity-and-climate.html">Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change</a></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#ffffff;">. </span></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Comments are always welcome, so please leave a comment!</span></div><div align="justify"></div>Knowledge is Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054370670337869198noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38896264.post-57488298988214116142010-11-27T15:58:00.000-08:002011-01-20T22:28:45.269-08:00Random Man on Planet Earth reaches 10,000 hits<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544387955417659250" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/TPGfeFOft3I/AAAAAAAAA9U/nF4Iec3qLlE/s320/RM_PE.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 177px;" /><br />
<div align="justify"><strong>Random Man on Planet Earth</strong> would like to have a look back at some of the highlights over the life of this blog which started back on the 20th of March 2007.</div><div><br />
</div><div>See the first 'Welcome post' <a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2007/03/welcome-to-random-mans-blog.html">here</a> </div><div><br />
</div><div>Anyway, here are some of the most popular posts (in no particular order).</div><div><span style="color: white;">.</span></div><div><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2009/08/psychology-and-climate-change-new.html">Psychology and Climate Change</a><br />
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<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2009/06/use-synthetic-trees-to-capture-carbon.html">Synthetic trees?</a></div><br />
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<div><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/search/label/Arne%20Naess%20%281912-2009%29">Arne Naess 'father of deep ecology'</a></div><br />
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<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/search/label/Allan%20Schnaiberg">The Environment: From Surplus to Scarcity</a> (by <a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/search/label/Allan%20Schnaiberg">Allan Schnaiberg</a>)</div><br />
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<div><strong>**<span style="color: red;">Please</span> leave a comment! </strong></div><div><span style="color: white;">.</span></div></div>Knowledge is Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054370670337869198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38896264.post-49566495640994579022010-11-10T13:25:00.000-08:002010-11-10T16:47:31.890-08:00Some lizards from CubaHere is a selection of the different lizards found in Cuba.<br /><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span> <span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span><br />If anyone knows more about these wonderful lizards please let me know.<br /><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span><br /><p><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 232px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538080602242394994" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/TNs29zojq3I/AAAAAAAAA88/Gg1qbO8VtMQ/s320/Cuban%2BLizard%2B004s.jpg" /> </p><p>Photo supplied by: <a href="http://pajenvironmentalconsulting.blogspot.com/">PAJ Environmental Consulting<br /></a><br /></p><a href="http://pajenvironmentalconsulting.blogspot.com/"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 228px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538069244470346562" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/TNssosorw0I/AAAAAAAAA80/qjkEJ_QbDqo/s320/Cuban%2BLizard%2B003s.jpg" /></a> Photo supplied by: <a href="http://pajenvironmentalconsulting.blogspot.com/">PAJ Environmental Consulting</a><br /><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">..</span><br /><a href="http://pajenvironmentalconsulting.blogspot.com/"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 194px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538064426066892530" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/TNsoQOrx1vI/AAAAAAAAA8k/8BNvjV9Scio/s320/Cuban%2BLizard%2B001s.jpg" /></a> Photo supplied by: <a href="http://pajenvironmentalconsulting.blogspot.com/">PAJ Environmental Consulting<br /></a><span style="color:#ffffff;">..</span><br /><a href="http://pajenvironmentalconsulting.blogspot.com/"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 238px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538065129134067954" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/TNso5J0DkPI/AAAAAAAAA8s/iJ-oawS5rWE/s320/Cuban%2BLizard%2B002s.jpg" /></a><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="color:#000000;">Photo supplied by: <a href="http://pajenvironmentalconsulting.blogspot.com/">PAJ Environmental Consulting</a></span> .</span> <p><br />**If you enjoyed this post, <span style="color:#ff0000;">please</span> check out:<br /><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span><br /><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2010/03/orangutans-of-kota-kinabalu.html">Orangutans of Kuta Kinabalu</a><br /><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span><br /><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2010/01/2010-international-year-of-biodiversity.html">2010 International Year of Biodiversity</a><br /><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span><br /><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2008/12/polar-bear-begs.html">Polar Bear</a><br /><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span><br />Comments always welcome!<br /><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span> </p>Knowledge is Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054370670337869198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38896264.post-30272596652649087102010-09-01T17:27:00.000-07:002010-09-01T17:47:16.641-07:00Bill McKibben on Letterman<p><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0JcRj-Yokuw?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0JcRj-Yokuw?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /></p><p>Here is <a href="http://www.billmckibben.com/">Bill McKibben</a> speaking with David Letterman about:</p><ul><li>his new book <a href="http://www.billmckibben.com/eaarth/eaarthbook.html">Eaarth</a>,</li><li><a href="http://www.350.org/">350.org</a> and</li><li>his campaign to get the Whitehouse to reinstall solar panels on 10/10/10. </li></ul><p>I have another post on Bill McKibben (<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2009/05/bill-mckibben.html">available here</a>); from when I went to see him speak in Sydney, last year. </p><p><span style="color:#ff0000;">Comments always welcome!</span></p><p> </p>Knowledge is Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054370670337869198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38896264.post-58570378985483881302010-08-04T15:41:00.000-07:002010-11-30T02:04:57.733-08:00United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/TFnvjBfqGOI/AAAAAAAAA8U/8qXVMb8BITY/s1600/bonn_aug_2010.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 401px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 163px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501691804785449186" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/TFnvjBfqGOI/AAAAAAAAA8U/8qXVMb8BITY/s320/bonn_aug_2010.jpg" /></a><br /><div>The conference runs from Monday, 2nd August to Friday, 6th August 2010.</div><div><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></div><div align="justify">Christina Figueres (UNFCCC Executive Secretary) stated that governments can build on progress in five key areas:</div><div align="justify"></div><ol><li><div align="justify"><em>they need to resolve what to do with their public pledges to cut emissions</em></div></li><li><div align="justify"><em>governments seem on track to agree to a comprehensive set of ways and means to allow developing countries to take concrete action</em></div></li><li><div align="justify"><em>industrialized nations can turn their funding pledges into reality</em></div></li><li><div align="justify"><em>countries want to see that what they agree with each other is measured, reported and verified in a transparent way</em></div></li><li><div align="justify"><em>governments agree that pledges need to be captured in a binding manner but they need to decide how to do it</em></div></li></ol><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Click <a href="http://unfccc.int/2860.php">here</a> for more information on the conference (including reports and background readings). </div><div><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></div><div><strong>**If you enjoyed this post, <span style="color:#ff0000;">please</span> check out:</strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></strong></div><div><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/search/label/Conferences">Conferences</a></div><div><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></div><div>Comments and questions always welcome!</div><div><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></div><div></div><div></div>Knowledge is Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054370670337869198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38896264.post-83724467127747588512010-08-03T18:39:00.000-07:002011-04-03T15:45:17.593-07:00Humpback whales off Sydney Harbour<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/search/label/Biodiversity"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501363990834268978" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/TFjFZvXNSzI/AAAAAAAAA8M/tl1o6Ut89oc/s320/Whale+016+(small).JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a> Photo supplied by: <a href="http://pajenvironmentalconsulting.blogspot.com/">PAJ Environmental Consulting</a><br />
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<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/search/label/Biodiversity"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501363841008955154" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/TFjFRBOEbxI/AAAAAAAAA8E/uyA7dtgkZjA/s320/Fishing+040+(small).JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a> Photo supplied by: <a href="http://pajenvironmentalconsulting.blogspot.com/">PAJ Environmental Consulting</a><br />
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<div><div><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/search/label/Biodiversity"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501363676358127730" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/TFjFHb2QMHI/AAAAAAAAA78/qUwr5TEcsok/s320/Fishing+036+(small).JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a>Photo supplied by: <a href="http://pajenvironmentalconsulting.blogspot.com/">PAJ Environmental Consulting</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are some photos taken of some Humpback whales that were heading north - past Sydney Harbour - for the breeding season.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;">.</span></div><div><strong>**If you enjoyed this post, <span style="color: red;">please</span> also check out:</strong></div><div><span style="color: white;">.</span></div><div><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2010/01/2010-international-year-of-biodiversity.html">2010 International Year of Biodiversity</a><br />
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<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2010/12/king-parrot-in-wild.html">King Parrot in the Wild</a><br />
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<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2010/11/some-lizards-from-cuba.html">Some Lizards from Cuba</a><br />
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<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2010/03/orangutans-of-kota-kinabalu.html">Orangutans of Kota Kinabalu</a><br />
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<a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2009/08/australias-biodiversity-and-climate.html">Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change</a><br />
<span style="color: white;">.</span></div><div>Comments always welcome!</div></div>Knowledge is Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054370670337869198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38896264.post-17366184503606359542010-07-28T15:42:00.000-07:002010-07-28T20:14:22.556-07:00Climate Change Indicators suggest a warming world<div align="justify">The annual <em>State of the Climate Report</em> has just been released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">NOAA</span>) for the year 2009. Over 300 scientists from 48 countries were involved. The report examines data for ten indicators of a warming world (as seen below).</div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></div><div align="justify"></div><a href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams-state-of-the-climate/2009.php"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 182px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499092004527723554" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/TFCzCu0Q1CI/AAAAAAAAA7k/aXa-TzxKdh4/s320/Ten+indicators+of+a+warming+world.jpg" /></a> <p align="justify">Of these ten indicators, seven are expected to increase in a warming world (Air Temperature Near Surface (Troposphere), Humidity, Temperature Over Oceans, Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Level, Ocean Heat Content, and Temperature Over Land). The data for each of these indicators does trend up, suggesting we are living in a warming world. </p><p align="justify"></p><a href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams-state-of-the-climate/2009.php"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 298px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499092455428046130" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/TFCzc-jRvTI/AAAAAAAAA7s/mtpQgLLbWW0/s320/going+up.jpg" /></a><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Finally, three indicators are expected to decrease in a warming world (Snow Cover, Glaciers and Sea-Ice). The data for each of these indicators does trend down, suggesting we are living in a warming world. </div><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams-state-of-the-climate/2009.php"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 238px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499092782655781314" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/TFCzwBkcucI/AAAAAAAAA70/2ogfMVOnbsI/s320/going+down.jpg" /></a> </p><p></p><p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> Climate change is "<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">unequivocal".</span></p><p> </p><p>Both the full report and an easy to read 10 page summary of the report is available <a href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams-state-of-the-climate/2009.php">here</a>.<br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Reference</strong>:<br /><br /><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Arndt</span>, D. S., M. O. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Baringer</span>, and M. R. Johnson, Eds., 2010: <a href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams-state-of-the-climate/2009.php">State of the Climate in 2009</a>. <em>Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc</em>., <strong>91</strong> (6), S1-S224.<br /><br /><strong>The 2007 <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">IPPC</span> report was released in April 2007 in Paris. It is available at:</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg2.htm"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">IPCC</span> (<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">WG</span>2) Climate Change Report 2007</a> </p><p><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></p>Knowledge is Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054370670337869198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38896264.post-84037449072448327722010-07-20T21:38:00.000-07:002011-01-20T21:59:24.655-08:00Reframing climate change into a public health issue<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/TEaOKyGkKBI/AAAAAAAAA7U/5_RKEoZSw98/s1600/ambulance+climate+emergency.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 187px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496236711151413266" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/TEaOKyGkKBI/AAAAAAAAA7U/5_RKEoZSw98/s320/ambulance+climate+emergency.jpg" /></a><span style="color:#ffffff;"> .<br /></span><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">New research carried out by Maibach et al (2010) from George Mason University suggests that framing climate change in terms of a public health issue - rather than an environmental issue - helps a wider spectrum of people to see climate change as personally relevant, understandable, and significant.</div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></div><div align="justify"></div><blockquote><p align="justify"><em>"Re-defining climate change in public health terms should help people make connection to already familiar problems such as asthma, allergies and infectious diseases, while shifting the visualisation of the issue away from remote Arctic regions and distant peoples and animals." </em></p></blockquote><br /><div align="justify"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="color:#000000;">A better healthier future for everyone is a positive framing that may help to better engage the public with climate change.</span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span><br /></div><div align="justify"><blockquote><p><em>"Many leading experts have suggested that a positive vision for the future, rather than a dire one is precisely what has been missing from the public dialogue on climate change so far."</em></p></blockquote></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="color:#000000;"></span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="color:#000000;"></span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="color:#000000;">For the press release for this research </span><a href="http://eagle.gmu.edu/newsroom/830/">see here</a></span><span style="color:#000000;"> </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></div><div align="justify">Or for the full paper <a href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/10/299">see here</a></div><div align="justify"></div><br /><div align="justify">For more on this, please check out:</div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></div><div align="justify"><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2009/05/six-americas.html">Six Americas - which one are you?</a> </div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2008/10/americans-and-climate-change.html">Americians and climate change</a> </div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2008/12/splitting-jobs-versus-environment.html">Splitting jobs versus the environment</a> </div><br /><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#ffffff;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Comments always welcome!</span><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></div><br /><div align="justify">Please tell us what you think.</div>Knowledge is Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054370670337869198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38896264.post-46765016336808968922010-03-19T00:00:00.000-07:002010-03-19T00:07:46.388-07:00An Open Letter from Scientists in the United States on the IPCCHere is the start of the letter:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 22px;font-size:15px;" ></span><blockquote style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 22px;font-size:15px;" >Many in the popular press and other media, as well as some in the halls of Congress, are seizing on a few errors that have been found in the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in an attempt to discredit the entire report.<span style=""> </span>None of the handful of mis-statements (out of hundreds and hundreds of unchallenged statements) remotely undermines the conclusion that “warming of the climate system is unequivocal” and that most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations. Despite its excellent performance for accurately reporting the state-of-the-science, we certainly acknowledge that the IPCC should become more forthcoming in openly acknowledging errors in a timely fashion, and continuing to improve its assessment procedures to further lower the already very low rate of error.</span><br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 22px;font-size:15px;" >It is our intention in offering this open letter to bring the focus back to credible science, rather than invented hyperbole, so that it can bear on the policy debate in the United States and throughout the world.<span style=""> </span>We first discuss some of the key messages from climate science and then elaborate on IPCC procedures, with particular attention to the quality-control mechanisms of the IPCC.<span style=""> </span>Finally we offer some suggestions about what might be done next to improve IPCC practices and restore full trust in climate science.</span></blockquote><br /><a href="http://www.openletterfromscientists.com/index.html">More here</a><br /><br /><strong>** If you enjoyed this post <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">please</span> also check out:</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2009/11/copenhagen-diagnosis-climate-science.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Climate Science Report</a><br /><br /><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2009/10/changing-finance-financing-change.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></a><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2010/03/climate-change-in-australia-website-and.html">Climate change in Australia: website and report</a><br /><br /><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2009/08/estimated-cost-of-climate-change.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Estimated cost of adapting to climate change</a><br /><br /><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2009/07/overcoming-barriers-to-beat-climate.html">Overcoming barriers to beat climate change</a><br /><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2009/05/top-10-environmental-posts.html"></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br />COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOME !!</span><br /><p align="justify"><br />So please, tell us what you think!<br /></p></div>Knowledge is Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054370670337869198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38896264.post-88947817777027826212010-03-17T00:53:00.000-07:002011-03-29T17:55:26.725-07:00Green or Greenwash?<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/TEaUQUAPi1I/AAAAAAAAA7c/Q9wXPHqInAo/s1600/greenwashing.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496243403220814674" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/TEaUQUAPi1I/AAAAAAAAA7c/Q9wXPHqInAo/s320/greenwashing.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 245px;" /></a><br />
<div class="ad" id="adspot-940X20-pos-1" style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 130%;">Today's Sydney Morning Herald had a </span><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;">front page</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> story on how two of LG Electronics fridges were found to be not as energy efficient as they claimed. In fact the story suggested that they had installed a devices that activates an energy saving mode when the fridge detects room conditions similiar to those of a test laboratory.</span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;">Green fridge labelled a fraud</span></blockquote><br />
<blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;">LG Electronics</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> has agreed to compensate potentially thousands of consumers after two of its fridges - models L197NFS and P197WFS - were found to contain an illegal device that activates an energy-saving mode when it detects room conditions similar to those in a test laboratory.</span></em></div></blockquote><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: 130%;"><em>It is the third time LG Electronics has been caught making false claims about the environmental credentials of its products. In 2008, it had to repay $3 million after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ruled it had inflated the energy-efficiency star rating of five models of air-conditioner.</em> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/environment/green-fridge-labelled-a-fraud-20100316-qclx.html">Source (SMH)</a></span></blockquote><br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;">I wondered what other greenwash had been 'discovered' in Australia. After a very quick google search, I found the following:</span></div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"><blockquote><div class="ad" id="adspot-940X20-pos-1"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;">GreenPower retailer led investors astray: ACCC</span> </div><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Global Green Plan Ltd, using the name <span style="font-weight: bold;">GreenSwitch</span>, was deregistered from the national GreenPower program in September 2008 for failing to buy enough renewable energy certificates, but it continued to trade through its website until November. The company will now have to buy 4000 renewable energy certificates to make up the shortfall. ''The ACCC investigated the GreenSwitch activities and found the numbers didn't match up,'' the acting chairman of the ACCC, Michael Schaper, said. ''To take money from customers and not use it as it was intended is simply unacceptable.'' </span></em><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/environment/greenpower-retailer-led-investors-astray-accc-20100106-lue2.html"><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source (SMH) </span></em></a></blockquote><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Greenwash: company guilty of misleading claims</span></span><br />
<blockquote><em><span style="font-size: 130%;">A carbon credits company, </span><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;">Prime Carbon</span></em><span style="font-size: 130%;"><em>, has been found guilty by the Federal Court of Australia of making misleading green claims. Prime Carbon is a private company that produces and trades carbon credits created through soil enhancement and carbon sequestration programs.</em> </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/business/greenwash-company-guilty-of-misleading-claims-20100311-q1o1.html">Source (SMH)</a></span><br />
<div class="ad" id="adspot-940X20-pos-1"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"></span></div><div class="ad"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"></span></div></blockquote><br />
<blockquote><div class="ad"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;">Regulator demands muscle on 'green' ads </span></div><em><span style="font-size: 130%;">Graeme Samuel, the chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, said a sharp rise in complaints about green advertising claims - </span><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;">from almost none two years ago to about 500 since early 2008</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> - was ''very unusual''.</span></em></blockquote><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: 130%;">''Five hundred suggests there's more than a moderate problem,'' Mr Samuel said. ''It's a new area and in some cases marketers don't understand - but in most cases marketers do understand and they are overselling.'' </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/environment/regulator-demands-muscle-on-green-ads-20100125-mujk.html">Source (SMH)</a></span></blockquote><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;">ACCC warns about 'green' marketing</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;">The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said as companies push to appear greener, it's becoming difficult to find products that do not promise some kind of environmental benefit. </span><span style="font-size: 130%;">"Companies risk breaching the Trade Practices Act if they give an overall impression to consumers their product is environmentally friendly when it isn't," ACCC deputy chair Louise Sylvan said in a statement. </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://news.smh.com.au/business/accc-warns-about-green-marketing-20080508-2c8p.html">Source (SMH)</a></span></blockquote><span style="color: white;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"></span></div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 130%;">I also found this:</span></div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Six Sins of Greenwash</span></span><br />
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<div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: 130%;">In December 2007, TerraChoice, an environmental marketing company in North America , released the findings of a study titled 'The Six Sins of Greenwashing'. The company, a leader in green marketing, <span style="font-weight: bold;">found that 99% of the 1018 common 'environmentally friendly' consumer products randomly surveyed for the study were guilty of greenwashing</span>. The findings of the report were alarming and from it the company created the six sins of greenwashing, which it believes will help equip consumers with the tools to figure out the truth about environmentally friendly products. They define the six sins as:</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span style="font-size: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">Sin of the Hidden Trade-Off:</span></b> eg, 'Energy-efficient' electronics that contain hazardous materials. <b><span style="font-size: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />
</span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">Sin of No Proof:</span></b> eg, Shampoos claiming to be 'certified organic', but with no verifiable certification. <b><span style="font-size: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />
</span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">Sin of Vagueness:</span></b> eg, Products claiming to be 100% natural when many naturally occurring substances are hazardous, like arsenic and formaldehyde. <b><span style="font-size: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />
</span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">Sin of Irrelevance:</span></b> eg, Products claiming to be CFC-free, even though CFCs were banned 20 years ago. <b><span style="font-size: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />
</span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">Sin of Fibbing:</span></b> eg, Products falsely claiming to be certified by an internationally recognised environmental standard like EcoLogo, Energy Star or Green Seal. <b><span style="font-size: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />
</span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">Sin of Lesser of Two Evils:</span></b> eg, Organic cigarettes or 'environmentally friendly' pesticides.</span></div></blockquote></div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://www.sustainabilitymatters.net.au/articles/1570-The-sins-of-greenwashing"></a></span></div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://www.sustainabilitymatters.net.au/articles/1570-The-sins-of-greenwashing">Source (www.Sustainabilitymatters.net.au)</a></span></div><br />
<div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">So the message is very clear.</span></div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Beware of making 'greenwashed' claims for your products or you may end up on the front page of a major newspaper</span>!! </span></div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">That would not make good business sense.</span></div><div style="font-family: times new roman;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: times new roman; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">If anyone finds any more examples of this type of thing, please let me know and I will add the company to the list of shameful behaviour. It is great to see people are making complaints when they see this type of thing ("from almost none two years ago to 500 complaints since 2008").</span></div><div style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><strong><br />
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Those that are pro-science tend to push the benefits (and the nanoproducts) and those that are against science tend to push the risks of nanotechnology and nanopollution. Will nanotechnology help to solve environmental issues or will dangerous nanopollution and nanoweapons be the result? Will nanoscience help to reduce human suffering for many (or few) people? Or will it increase suffering? Will it boost human lifespans and lifestyles or reduce them? And who will benefit or suffer as a result of the new science and technology and its products and effects? Well, that depends on what 'society' does with the new science and technology it now increasingly has at its disposal.<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br />.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"There are many people, including myself, who are quite uneasy about the consequences of this technology of the future" </span><br /> <br />Eric Drexler<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. </span></blockquote><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://randommannano-land.blogspot.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 241px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/S2vKYr7EcyI/AAAAAAAAA5U/fQmHTlXo_-E/s320/nanobama.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434659900808786722" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Above:</span> Microscopic faces of Barack Obama made using nanotechnology, and imaged using a scanning electron microscope. Each face consists of millions of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes, grown by a high temperature chemical reaction. <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajohnhart/sets/72157608561494488/">Image source here</a></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br />Lets have a look at the benefits first.<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br /><strong>Benefits of <a href="http://randommannano-land.blogspot.com/">nanotechnology</a></strong><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br />Nanotechnology is already being used in many applications. For example, in modern medicine, nanotechnology is being used for fluorescent biological labels, drug and gene delivery, tissue engineering and MRI contrast enhancement. The benefits of these improved medical diagnostic methods and treatment options could be huge for those that are sick with a range of illnesses and diseases such as cancer. Those that support nanotechnology suggest the amazing possibilities of nanotechnology are almost endless.<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br />Strong proponents believe that, with further research and development (and funding), nanotechnology could be used to help solve a wide range of environmental and social problems including: climate change; water/air pollution; and even world hunger. However, the hype and marketing surrounding nanotechnology makes it difficult to separate what is technically possible and what may one day be available.<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br />It is also important to consider who will benefit. Can people access or even afford it when they may need it? Who owns, and therefore profits and controls nanotechnology? Much of the debate coming from the global 'South' in climate change, centres around the need for technology transfer, but will nanotechnology solutions be shared?<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/ELIZAB%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-2.png" alt="" /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/ELIZAB%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-3.png" alt="" /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/ELIZAB%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-4.png" alt="" /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/S4Yr8zAN5WI/AAAAAAAAA5k/mfCyngVCHJc/s1600-h/nanohaz_001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HSp0F_XVo2Q/S4Yr8zAN5WI/AAAAAAAAA5k/mfCyngVCHJc/s320/nanohaz_001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442085523207087458" border="0" /></a><br /><strong>Risks of <a href="http://randommannano-land.blogspot.com/">nanotechnology</a></strong><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br />Consider the case of the nanosock which has nanosilver particles in them to prevent bacteria and foot odor. Preliminary results from research being conducted by Troy Benn (an Arizona State University doctoral student) were presented at the American Chemical Societies 2008 conference. The research found that nanosilver particles would come out of the sock in the wash and therefore be released into the environment. This raises serious issues, such as what happens when bacteria killing particles are released into the environment? Science cannot yet answer that question adequately so we should remember the precautionary principle (PP) and be very careful until we can. Arguments over whether a strong or weak precautionary principle should be used then begin. Those that push for less regulation argue that a strong PP would limit the pace of discovery and therefore hold back the benefits of nanotechnology to those that may really need then now (i.e. the sick or the elderly). While those that want stronger regulation believe that the unknown risks out weigh the possible benefits and slowing the pace makes it safer.<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br />New nanoproducts should be tested for safety before going onto the market, but currently the risk research lags behind the new products. Some of this is because we are only beginning to 'see' some of the possible risks of nanotechnology.<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br />Molecular nanotechnology may allow the creation of self-replicating machines and the problem of ‘grey goo’. [See: the sci-fi book '<span style="font-weight: bold;">Prey</span>' by Michael Crichton] Is this idea of nanotechnology 'getting out of control' only 'science fiction'? Or is it a very real nasty future that awaits?<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br />Nanoweapons could be created, given almost half of all scientific research is for military purposes, there is a good chance that researchers will look towards nanoweapons that could deliver bioweapons – like a nanobot mosquito with a nasty toxin such as botulism). The development of nanoweapons could lead to a nanotechnology arms race, between nanotechnology superpowers or even smaller rogue states or terrorist group. There could be a large number of states with nanoweapons and because of there size they would be difficult to find and easy to smuggle which means they could be easily transported. There is also the possibility that a black-market for banned nanomachines could occur and because of the size of future nanomachines, it would be difficult to find them.<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br />Microscopic surveillance devices raise serious privacy concerns because individuals, governments or businesses could misuse them and it would be very difficult to deal with negative antisocial uses of the technology e.g. hidden cameras in private places such as bathrooms, or used for industrial or government espionage.<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br />Nanotechnology could have unintended consequences that could cause serious harm to society or the environment. Technocratic science has ‘blind-spots’ that result from its disciplinary and reductionist nature. These blind-spots could include unanticipated new illnesses, unintended negative environmental effects or major negative social change. These unintended consequences could also cause the public to lose of confidence in nanotechnology and this could effect funding.<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br />A lack of effective regulations to deal with the unintended consequences of nanotechnology could allow dangerous risks to be placed upon society. I believe a precautionary approach is therefore needed. It is also important to consider who owns and controls the technology, and who can have access to it (when and where it is needed).<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br />Having said all this - scientists actually working in fields of nanotechnology and nanoscience are increasingly aware of both the possible benefits and the possible problems. The example of genetically modified food has demonstrated to many scientists, some of the possible battles ahead. Good policy needs to stear through the minefield of the different assumptions and views on 'science' itself.<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br />Will the public trust nanoscience if it is found being used for weapons or polluting the environment? What if it is providing much joy and saving many lives? Many governments (including the US Government, the European Union and the Australian Government) have began to investigate the question of what should society do with nanotechnology.<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br />In conclusion, because there are many different values and worldviews in our society (e.g. anthropocentric, ecocentric and ecofeminism) and these values and worldviews are often conflicting, there is no one correct way of answering all the difficult ethical and environmental questions raised by rapidly progressing nanotechnology.<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br />Therefore, there needs to be a dialogue between all the key stakeholders, rather than a narrow group of experts. In order for the public to gain some control over the technology (Habermas question), they need to be involved in the problem definition, problem framing, discussing of options, etc. It must be a bottom-up rather than the typical top-down decision (leave it to the 'experts' i.e. scientists and economists).<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br />This could be achieved using a citizen’s jury (as they did with the UK nanojury). This is needed because nanotechnology has the potential to affect almost all aspects of modern society, so all people have a stake in their future and should help decide what risks they are prepared to take rather than having them thrust upon them without been consulted.<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></div>by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Random Man</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Comments most welcome, what do you all think about nanotechnology??</span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">For more on nanotechnology see: </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br /><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2008/11/history-of-nanotechnology.html">History of Nanotechnology</a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br /><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2008/11/what-is-nanotechnology.html">What is nanotechnology?</a><br /><br /><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2009/07/environmental-nanotechnology-predicting.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></a><a href="http://randommanplanetearth.blogspot.com/2009/07/environmental-nanotechnology-predicting.html">Environmental Nanotechnology</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br />COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOME !!</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br />So <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">please</span>, tell us what you think.Knowledge is Powerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05054370670337869198noreply@blogger.com0