Beside me, on my desk, to the left of my keyboard is a scribbled list of some of the things I could include in this post.  The ideas are not mine but they enhance my understanding of global warming and improve the precision with which I can discuss the matter.  When I came across some of the ideas I thought, that's obvious I wonder why I didn't understand it until now but I didn't.  On...
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Right now is truly beautiful.  The sun is shining gently, there is no wind, the light is soft in the way that it is not long after dawn, there is visible moisture still on the ground, the birds can be heard singing but beyond that, there is silence.  I am truly grateful and I want to preserve this beauty but, lurking behind my gratitude, I feel this constant, low-level fear that we are too foolish...
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Having shared in Post 1, the Australian version of the carbon footprint calculator from the World Wildlife Fund, I promised to offer some alternatives.  In this post I will write about a calculator that is published by a charitable organisation called Carbon Neutral.  This site offers an option for individuals, businesses or corporations to measure their carbon footprint.  It looks like the primary purpose of the calculator is to let us calculate our total CO2  emissions so we can purchase a $...
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