Josselin Zaïgouche, freelance-designer from Paris, created ’switch me!’. It stands for our society’s over-consumption and wasteful habits. You should think about whether or not you should turn on the light.

Every time you switch on your entropy account is debited, because finally high-value thermal energy is turned into low-value energy at a lower temperature. And there is no possibility to reverse this process.

more: photon mill
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• Paris: SETE turns Eiffel Tower off for 5 Minutes
• The ongoing Deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest
• London Heathrow: Fog could beat previous UK Record of nine Continuous Days

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Australian Antarctic Division: Massive iceberg calves from the Mertz Glacier
ESA has a great close-up of the crevassed surface of the Mertz glacier.

Found only a few cloud-free images from this year for animation above.

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• Iceberg B15-K crashed into Ekstrom Ice Shelf
• Art expedition to Antarctica: Stellar Axis
• UN: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits Antarctica

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NYT: Hummer Faces Shutdown After Chinese Sale Collapses

16 mpg!

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• Greenhouse Gas CO2 versus individual Traffic
• Upgrade to mySQL / PHP 5 soon
• Tornado in Hamburg (Germany)

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Above animation shows a week of truecolor photos from the MODIS satellite. The point of crash is just in the middle. Check out the Antarctica project page.

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• Art expedition to Antarctica: Stellar Axis
• Antarctica: More Grinding
• Canada: Ayles Ice Shelf broke clear from the Coast of Ellesmere Island

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“Global warming is definitely a factor that must be taken into account in Olympic preparations,” noted the President of IOC, Jacques Rogge, after a meeting last Monday.

Are Winter Games in Greenland or Siberia an option?

Picture Credit goes to Telstar Logistics@flickr using CC

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• Snow from Texas to Michigan
• Report: Climate Change in the European Alps - Adapting Winter Tourism and Natural Hazards Management
• Interactive Antarctica Simulation

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Info note No.58:

Geneva, 22 January 2010 (WMO) - According to a recent review conducted by a panel of experts in charge of global weather and climate extremes within the WMO Commission for Climatology (CCl) the record of wind gusts not related to tornados registered to date is 408 km/h during Tropical Cyclone Olivia on 10 April 1996 at Barrow Island, Australia.

The previous record was of 372 km/h, registered in April 1934 across the summit of Mount Washington, USA.

more: Global Weather & Climate Extremes, Olivia@digital-typhoon

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• London Heathrow: Fog could beat previous UK Record of nine Continuous Days
• Wind Directions over North American Continent and Atlantic Ocean
• Typhoon Cimaron approaching the Philippines

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The feedback of 55 countries - accounting for 78 percent of greenhouse gas emissions globally - is now published on the UNFCCC website. Annex I / Non-Annex.

However, if all pledges become real the 2°C goal will not be met. Here I’d like to highlight the letter from Costa Rica.

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• Munich Re: Climate Change is too expensive
• G8: Percentages, Degrees done. Tons left over for Copenhagen
• 2nd* UNofficial UNFCCC CROSSWORD

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Fraudsters used fake emails to steal passwords of the German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt). Certificates were then transferred to other participating countries and then sold. Some sources report losses of millions of Euros.

The certificates have unique IDs and the DEHSt is working hard to rollback all transactions. In the meantime the register is closed. A spokesperson of DEHSt describes the attack as highly professional and the German Federal Criminal Office (BKA) started an investigation.

You can easily avoid these attacks by checking the sender of emails, not using links inside emails instead trust your bookmarks and in this case by not publishing your email address in the register.

dw-world.de: Hackers steal emissions trading certificates
DEHSt: Preventive Measures of the German Registry

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• BBC Climate Challenge - Choose the right Policies
• Al Gore at New York University School of Law - NYU
• Margaret Beckett: Berlin Speech on Climate and Security

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If you don’t know how to fix it, stop breaking it!

more: Michael Archer interviews Severn Suzuki, April 2009

Wikipedia: Earth Summit 1992

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• ICC 2006: Save a Tree - Save our Lungs
• Children’s Painting Competition organized by the UNEP
• WWF: Climate Changes might happen faster than Scientists can Research, Publish and Communicate

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The Dress was made by a Danish cooperation consisting of design studio Diffus, Danish designer Tine M. Jensen, Swiss embroidery company Forster-Rohner, the Danish research-company Alexandra Institute and finally the Danish School of Design.

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• Munich Re: Climate Change is too expensive
• G8: Percentages, Degrees done. Tons left over for Copenhagen
• Costa-Rica: Long term economy-wide transformational effort to enable carbon-neutrality

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time machine to 1900@nowthatsnifty.blogspot.com

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Update: some replies urge not to mix up a cold winter with climate. This winter intensified by a negative phase of the arctic oscillation and a snow albedo feedback is pretty cold, but not a sign of slower Global Warming.

Of course this is true, but the agent provocateur is nevertheless not wrong. ;)

please read James Hanson’s If It’s That Warm, How Come It’s So Darned Cold, with more pictures of frozen Niagara Falls.

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• Interaction: Consequences of Climate Change
• Webcast: James Lovelock at Royal Society today
• WWF: Climate Changes might happen faster than Scientists can Research, Publish and Communicate

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A year like 2009, with relatively low losses to date, in no way contradicts this”,

said Torsten Jeworrek, member of Munich Re’s Board of Management responsible for reinsurance business.

“Something must be done. Even if an all-embracing agreement does not seem feasible in Copenhagen, at the very least fundamental framework conditions should be established.

We cannot afford a delay at the expense of future generations.”

more: press release

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• BBC Climate Challenge - Choose the right Policies
• Kyrill: Estimated losses of up to 8 Billion Euro in Europe
• The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale

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Your flight has an impact. Plane Stupid’s new cinema ad, written and commissioned by London’s coolest agency Mother and made by production company Rattling Stick. Director Daniel Kleinman.

planestupid.com

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• International Blog Action Today: How to tackle Aviation Emissions?
• Polar Bears listed as a threatened species?
• EU Commission forces to include Aviation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)

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Earlier this month the European Environment Agency (EEA) gave access to information on emissions from European industrial facilities. Included are annual data for 91 substances and more than 24 000 facilities in 65 economic activities.

The around 3600 greenhouse gas emitting facilities are now searchable here at ExploreOurPla.net. The initial view lists the 100 top emitter of carbon dioxyde. In 2007 most CO2 has been relased in 50129 Bergheim, Germany by the RWE Power AG - 31300 megatons.

Details about the reporting process are described in the guidance document.

more: EEA Press release, E-PRTR

Picture Credit: freefotouk@flickr using CC

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• European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER) updated with 2004 data
• EU Commission forces to include Aviation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)
• Canada: Harper named Kyoto money-sucking socialist scheme

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This image was acquired by the Rosetta Orbiter Imaging System OSIRIS from a distance of 350 000 km at 22:28 UTC 12th November. The resolution is 6.5 km/pixel.

The mission is named after the famous ‘Rosetta Stone‘ and refers to an important discovery helped to understand hieroglyphics.

Picture Credits: ESA ©2009 MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA

More Antarctica same day at ice-map.appspot.com.

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• ESA: Mars successful accelerated Rosetta - now targeting Earth
• Mars: High Resolution Photos from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
• A Beautiful Lie: 30 Seconds to Mars at Arctic

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Some when in the future - maybe this century - a apocalyptic event flooded both megacities, water level is around 10m higher, fish is cheap and cellphone still operate. See the full set of pictures released by Studio Lindfors at flickr.

via: BLDGBLOG

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• Pollution index over Beijing hits the highest measurement
• Small Island States Concerned With Sea Level Rise
• Taking pulse of Digital Zeitgeist

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UK based Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) launched this commercial as part of its Act on CO2 campaign.

The Advertising Standards Authority received already hundreds of complains and the placement in TV and cinema will continue a further month.

What kind of discussion would a similar broadcasting raise in your country? Would you like to give the story a happy end?

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• Turn Down. Switch off. Recycle. Walk. Change.
• Friends of Earth Poster Campaign: Protection against Climate Change
• Campaign: Clean up the World

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1938 Ernest Hemingway eternalised Africa’s white peak with “The Snows of Kilimanjaro“. Now researchers led by paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson estimate the thousands years old glaciers will disappear this century.

PNAS: Glacier loss on Kilimanjaro continues unabated
LIFE Photo (1930)
Photo Credit: paulshaffner using CC

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• Antarctica: More Grinding
• Video: Melting Briksdalsbreen Glacier in BBC News
• More Arctic Melting

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350.org launched an impressive campaign and received feedback from all over the planet.

More viral media is needed to attract global interest.

Featuring: Rachel Alexander, Shannan Click, Hanne Gaby Odiele, Olya Ivanisevic, Alla Kostromicheva, Heidi Mount, Crystal Renn, Rianne Ten Haken, Nicole Trunfio, and Dorothea Barth Jorgensen.

Not everybody was invited to join. :)

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• CO2 Emissions by Activity
• Kyoto Protocol set to help green economies of eastern and central Europe
• European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER) updated with 2004 data

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Stunning the melt is over scenario. More video formats.

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• Video: Al Gore’s Presentation Live
• Video: ABC Nails Exxon and Republicans for Fake Al Gore Video
• Video: CBC.CA - The Denial Machine

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