The Last Frost

Awesome, Al Gore has taken home 1/2 of the Nobel Peace Prize for his "efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change". 

The other half of the prize went to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for the same reasons. 

This is great news for bringing awareness to Climate Change as an issue as well as recognizing some major players working on the front lines of the attempt to change global awareness. Congrats to Al and the IPCC.

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UPDATE: Al's response to winning:

I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is even more meaningful because I have the honor of sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change–the world's pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis–a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years. We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis.

Thank you,

Al Gore

Al Gore Win's The Nobel Peace Prize - [NobelPrize.org]

I came across an interesting post on the blog ShoeMoney.com. Apparently they've received an email attempting to extort them out of $200 a month. If they do not comply the sender known as "dragon dragon" will use "special robots" to disable the site's Google adsense account.

What does this have to do with global warming and climate change you might ask? Well the scam artist is claiming to need the money for a magnetic energy machine prototype. He even promises to repay all the money after he "registers" the machine. I love this line though, "If you collaborate with me, you have helped to the science. And if not, I will have to close your Google AdSense account."

You can read about the so called machine at the blog given in the email scam: Magnet-Machine.blogspot.com  

Inventor Seeks Funding For Energy Machine From AdSense Publishers [ShoeMoney]

Al Gore is helping to organize a massive series of benefit concerts to occur on all seven continents, including Antarctica. The concerts will feature more than 100 artists, covering the gamut from Snoop Dogg to Bon Jovi. 

All proceeds will go to The Alliance For Climate Protection. 

Al Gore Sets Global Warming Concerts With Snoop Dogg, Bon Jovi - [Bloomberg.com]

Whole Foods, the Austin Texas based chain of natural food supermarkets, is offering cards in $5 and $15 dollar denominations that will help to support the marketing of wind power in the US. The idea is that the $5 cards represent the average energy use by an individual (about 250KWh) and the $15 cards represent the average household (about 750KWh). Buy purchasing the cards, consumers are funding the costs of marketing wind power to the mainstream populace, effectively removing the gap in cost between wind power and traditional fossil fuels. 

It's an interesting idea, but it's supposedly only going to be offered in Western states. According to Reuters.com it will be in 76 stores across: Colorado, California, Texas, Washington, Arizona, Louisiana, Oregon, New Mexico and Nevada.

Whole Foods offers cards to fund wind power market » [Reuters.com]

The head of Virgin has pledged to donate all the profits from Virgin's transportation companies such as the airline Virgin Atlantic, and his train service Virgin Trains, to fight global warming for the next 10 years. He said that he feels transportation companies need to need to lead the way towards developing, "environmentally friendly business strategies". The money totalling about $3 Billion will be invested through a new division called Virgin Fuels.

I'm writing this from the UK, just flown on Virgin Atlantic from New York to London and can I just say that the airline is one of the best in the air today and now I'm 200% more psyched about giving them my business. 

Branson makes $3bn climate pledge » [BBC News]

The record label that originally signed Nirvana, has become the first record label to offset it's power costs with renewable energy. They purchased enough Green Tags to cover their impact on the climate through their power usage. The president of the label had this to say:

"I was, quite frankly, shocked by how easy it is to support renewable energy. Green Tags are a simple way for anyone to choose wind energy, which, in turn, lowers dependence on burning fossils fuels for energy" [Jambase]

Anyone can purchase Green Tags to greenify their power usage. Just visit http://www.GreenTagsUSA.org

You can purchase tags in 99% Wind / 1% Solar for $20, or 90% Wind / 10% Solar for $24 USD. 

SUB POP GOES GREEN » [Jambase]

Help show the world that people recognize global warming as a real concern.

I assume it’s just 5% of the opening weekend proceeds?