“‘In just over 30 years we have altered the way our planet looks from space”
The major problem is encouraging greater use of a product that, in the future, is leading to the end of life on this planet as we know it.
By jcwinnie
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Also posted in advocacy, atmosphere, climate, conflict, ecology, economics, energy, equity, rhetoric, world
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Tagged atmosphere, Climate change, coal, deception, pollution, rhetoric, world
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“To head off the worst effects of climate change, we need to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to no more than 350 parts per million.” (On the right hand side of my weblog, the meter reads 394.49.) For the sake of future life on our planet, “the United States can’t delay any longer.”
By jcwinnie
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Also posted in atmosphere, climate, communication, consequence, disasters, energy, forecast, human rights, world
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Tagged Climate change, disasters, policy, reading
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Global warming makes heat waves hotter and more frequent.
“unlike financial fraud or terrorist attacks,” (the Robber Barons, which decide what and what is not terrorism, want you to believe that “climate change does not register, emotionally, as a wrong that demands to be righted.”
By jcwinnie
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Also posted in advocacy, attack, behavior, climate, communities, conflict, defense, ecology, economics, energy, environment, equity, groups, human rights, politics, religion, rhetoric
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Tagged Climate change, outrage
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UCS/via We can’t blame climate change for every extreme weather event that slams into us, yet there’s little doubt among scientists that global warming is exacerbating heat waves, flooding, drought, and rainstorms. To illustrate that point, the Union of Concerned Scientists put together a handy little graphic that demonstrates which types of extreme weather scientists [...]
“a mix of news reports, policy briefs, blog posts and longform journalism.”
“Twenty-six of the 27 districts in the tea-and-oil-rich state have been hit by flash floods since June 24 as a result of the torrential rains while the Brahmaputra river has breached its banks in at least nine places.”
Re-post from Greenpeace International The World’s multinational corporations face an unrelenting problem. Resource extraction has met Earth’s limits. The great fortunes of history were made by plundering resources, but we have taken the best of everything. With few virgin resources left, modern profit-making schemes turn to stock manipulations, debt swaps, and bets on derivative markets. [...]
“China, which in 2006 took over the U.S.’s historical position as the world’s biggest emitter, raced ahead in 2010, emitting 9.1bn tons – up 15.5 percent on the previous year, and a 240 percent increase since 1992. That makes China alone responsible for about one-quarter of global carbon emissions from energy, emitting about 48 percent more than the U.S.”
