Critics say buying an offset while continuing to fly, or drive an SUV, or live in a mansion with all the lights on, is at best hypocritical, and at worst, downright dangerous. It simply avoids the issue, which is that we should be reducing our carbon footprint, and simply encourages the delusion that we can go on living in an environmentally profligate way.

So believe just that, but others still blame man for this widely accepted Theory.

The experience of many countries with implementing methane emissions reducing technologies and practices have shown that reducing this potent greenhouse gas makes both environmental and economic sense.

There are a number of options available for producing energy from sustainable sources; these commonly include solar power, wind turbines and tidal power, but there are more unusual solutions on the horizon. Environmental consulting could soon be recommending balloon farms as a way of providing energy for whole communities.

The carbon offset industry is new and unproven, and there are some bad examples; if you are responsible for putting major CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, is it your your moral obligation to take them back out again?

Kevin Costner hit a homerun with the now classic movie about the future of earth. Was it a vision of the future of the earth due to global warming?

Those that are not as familiar with carbon offsetting often link the concept immediately to reforestation. While this is a common form of carbon offsetting, there are various other types of useful offset projects. This is important because a lot of controversy surrounding offsets seems to have its roots in reforestation project criticism.

The ABTA Trade Convention was held in Gran Canaria in early October 2008. A video address by Prince Charles was presented to attendees. The agenda focused on innovations in tourism but included considerable discussion of eco tourism and sustainable tourism.

Due to “global warming” and the so-called “greenhouse effect”, sudden climate changes are experienced in all parts of the world. Climate changes produce a variation in the Earth’s atmosphere that is felt in other parts of the globe like the ice caps and oceans.

Wildfires have been a problem for a long time, but in recent years the fires seem to be much worse than usual. What could be causing this?