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CO2.Earth is live!!

CO2.Earth has Launched!

November 13, 2013

CO₂.Earth is now live. I am proud that it is one of the very first websites on the internet with a .earth domain. The first .earth site to launch—democracy.earth—happened last week. This week, CO₂.Earth is the site that's rolling out, just before .earth domains open for public registration on December 19, 2015.

Also, just in time for the international climate summit in Paris, CO₂.Earth takes over global redistribution of CO₂ data from CO₂Now.org.

CO₂.Earth is here to track the atmospheric CO₂ trend along with you. Any time you want an update for earth's planetary vital signs, CO₂.Earth points to the latest numbers.

Michael McGee
Producer, CO₂.Earth
Vancouver Island, Canada

P.S. Please note that some articles and the set up of CO₂ web widgets are still being completed.

Media

Interlnk via PR Newsire Popular citizen sustainability site relaunching on new .earth domain

CO₂.Earth via PR Web Global public gest new site to track atmospheric CO₂

CO₂.Earth Backgrounder

CO₂.Earth Media Releases + Media Room

Backgrounder: CO2.Earth Launch

Backgrounder

November 13, 2015 Launch of CO₂.earth (& Show.earth)

Related Media Release

PR Web November 13, 2015 RELEASE Global public gets new site to track atmospheric CO₂

A History of 'Earth’s CO₂ Home Page'

December 17, 2007 Michael McGee launched the first atmospheric CO₂-focussed website, a simple, one-page html site at themostimportantnumber.org.

Spring 2008 McGee created the world’s first CO₂ web widget that people continue to use worldwide to track and display atmospheric CO₂ readings on their websites and blogs.

September 1, 2008 McGee moved “Earth’s CO₂ Home Page” and website from themostimportantnumber.org to CO₂Now.org.

Since December 17, 2007 McGee has faithfully kept the latest atmospheric CO₂ data on display on Earth's CO2 Home Pages and on many hundreds of websites and blogs worldwide with CO2 website widgets.

2015 Launch of CO₂.earth

CO₂.earth helps people of many countries and backgrounds access the biggest indicators for planetary health and sustainability.
A powerful translation tool is built into the site to make pages readable in 57 languages.
The latest in responsive website technology is used to reach the 45% of the world's people who are connected to the internet with devices of many makes and screen sizes.

CO₂.earth About

CO₂.earth 2015 Launch of CO₂.earth

Site Producer Mike McGee

Creator of 3 websites that re-post the earth's data and information from scienctific institutions and other credible sources worldwide (2007 to present)
Employed by the provincial government in British Columbia (23 years) with policy and communications responsibilities with a transportation licensing tribunal (15 years)
Master’s Candidate at Royal Roads University (environmental education and communication)
Data and education-related projects (including CO₂.earth) are part-time, volunteer and operated independently of any employer, university, science institution or other group or organization

CO₂.earth Production Team

Website with a Purpose

195 member countries of the United Nations have signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This agreement includes an ultimate climate objective to stabilize the concentration of CO₂ and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere. CO₂.earth provides an informal place to track planetary changes as they happen and explore pre-requisites for their stabilization.

CO₂.earth CO₂ Past, Present, Future

CO₂.earth Global Surface Temperature

CO₂.earth Track The Trend

UN Paris Climate Talks

CO₂.earth brings focus to quantified indicators that enable people to sense and know planetary changes for themselves. Of relevance to UN climate talks in Paris (November 30 - December 11, 2015), the site includes indictors for gauging the degree of progress toward internationally-adopted targets that bring global warming to an end.

CO₂.earth COP21 | 2015 Paris Climate Conference

Show.Earth: Show The Trend That You Are Tracking
Show.earth

Michael McGee is launching Show.earth at the same time as CO₂.earth as a repository for tools that people and organizations can use to show the planetary trends they are tracking.
Show.earth starts as simply the new “go to” place for CO₂ website widgets that people and organizations can embed on their websites and blogs.
Show.earth has been designed with built-in potential to expand its offerings over time.

Logo for .earth Domain

Source Image PR Newswire

.earth Domains

Registration of .earth domains is tied to a voluntary pledge:

“By registering a domain in the .earth TLD, Registrants voluntarily pledge to become ambassadors for Earth and do away with actions that harm Earth and its inhabitants.”

By invitation from Interlink Co. Ltd., the Registry Operator for .earth Top Level Domains (TLDs), CO₂.earth and Show.earth are founding members of an emerging community that share a common domain name and pro-earth pledge.
Information about .earth domains, registration, registration terms and conditions (including voluntary pledges) is available at domain.earth, a website maintained by Interlink.

Domain.earth What’s .earth?

CO₂.earth .earth founding member

More Info about CO2.earth

CO₂.earth Servers powered by the sun

CO₂.earth Media Releases

CO₂.earth Media Stories & Features

CO₂.earth Media Resources

Front Lines of Global Change

Oceanside graves on the Marshall Islands

Image by Mark Edward Harris | used with permission | previously published at Honolulu Civil Beat

The metaphor of 'vital signs' might bring up hospital images of beeping instruments that show changing numbers and blinking charts. But the instruments are not the sole source of important information. The people have their human stories to share. They have histories, insights and hopes that are often interwoven. They offer an intelligent and caring perspective that no electro-mechanical instrument can provide.

This website speaks to the usefulness and importance of scientific data and information about the changing climate and earth system. This page acknowledges that even planetary data does not tell the whole story

"Front lines of global change" was created as a place you may discover that we live in a world where human experiences are rich with insight about the earth, and where local knowledge is vitally important. It starts as a modest selection of links that can grow over time.

Vital Stories

Honolulu Civil Beat Climate change: 'The single greatest threat to our existance'

2015

AOSIS Small islands propose "below 1.5°C" global goal for Paris agreement

PISF 20 therapists talk about parallels of personal and planetary climate healing

NASA 10 NASA scientists talk about the meaning of surpassing 400 ppm CO2

R we?

Are we stabilizing yet?

It's a fair question.

Look, we have 195 countries and the EU that have signed the UNFCCC and its ultimate climate objective to achieve a timely stabilization of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. So, are we doing it, or not?

It's a fair question, and it's also a limited question. It's a binary question that points to a simple 'yes' or 'no' result.

If you don't like the answer you come up with, you may be motivated to ask some follow-up questions.

There are lots of questions you might ask.

You could ask a physical science question like this: "What measurable level of emissions must be acheived to stabilize atmospheric CO2?" Or you could ask an earth systems question about how GHG stabilization enables temperature stablizations and climate stabilization. There are also social-systems question like, "How do we work together and achieve stabilization?". And there is the obvious personal question many of us ask ourselves: "What can I possibly do as an individual that would make a difference in this big world?

To the last question, the launch of CO2.Earth is premised on a belief that tracking atmospheric CO2 levels is one fo the most basic and important thigs an individual can do. It's a way of learning about the earth system as a whole. It's an activity that should enable some people to better understand our current planetary situation and what responses are helpful and appropriate. It helps to build capacity and support for responses that match the nature and scale of the problem. Tracking CO2 and learning about the earth system is a critical early step that enables people to see what actions help. It is a way to discover possibilities in areas that seem impossible.

"Are we stabilizing yet?" is a starting question that aims to promote global thinking about the most important environmental problems facing humanity and the wider community of life. We hope you find some inspiration it.

Planetary Art Show: 350 Earth

350 Earth Art

350.org organized the world's first planetary art show in November 2010 just before the Cancun Climate Conference.

browse 350 eARTh

350 eARTh: Post Event Video

Source Video 350.org YouTube Channel [December 2010]

This EARTH project is designed to spread a warning, around the globe. It's designed to spread a message of hope, too--if we rise to our potential as humans, we'll be able to cope with the most dangerous problem we've ever faced, and begin to work our way towards a clean, renewable future.

~ Bill McKibben, 350.org founder

Links

art.350.org/earth An art exhibit visible from space

Huffington Post-2010 Henn | Can art save the climate? 350 EARTH

flickr 350.org 350 EARTH: 35 photos