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Yes you're right, being from Australia I fly a bit, not many other options when you work overseas, so guilty of a carbon footprint bloated by that. European flights have carbon offsets built in now, how effective they are globally who knows. Also haven't had a car in 16 years.

Sea temps are up 0.6 - 0.8 Celcius already. A few degrees is nothing to humans but very powerful to ecosystems. 2 degrees is enough to wipe out the Great Barrier Reef, & it's already started. Most of the coral reefs in the Indian ocean have already been destroyed largely by bleaching caused by...

There are always conspiracy bloggers out there, it's a worry how many people follow them though. Some real data instead: http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/gcs_2011_en.html

Global warming will be a big problem for Australia but this Rolling Stone article is a bit over the top: Climate Change and the End of Australia

Not a high price at all after the initial capital costs, Spain is saving a lot on fuel imports since they don't have much in the way of local carbon fuel resources. They are now major exporters and installers of wind farms. The unemployment problem is completely unrelated, most caused by a...

True, wind power has a great future economically and with respect to reducing carbon emissions. When used with pumped storage facilities supply spikes can be flattened out, need mountains for that though so maybe not an option in SA. In Spain on windy days the whole country is over 50% wind...