Archive for November 10th, 2009
Where We Can’t Afford To Be On December 7th
Will we leave our head in the sand or will we finally take a stand to make change happen?
With only days and hours left, join us NOW for a DAY of global ACTION – COPENHAGEN CLIMATE CHANGE – WORLD HUNGER STRIKE – Will you take ACTION NOW?
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Posted: November 10th, 2009 under Climate Change, Foundation News, General, Negotiations.
Tags: Climate Change, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, global warming, International negotiations, stop climate change
Comments: 1
Koalas ‘could face extinction’
Australia’s koalas could be wiped out within 30 years unless urgent action is taken to halt a decline in population, according to researchers.
They say development, climate change and bushfires have all combined to send the numbers of wild koalas plummeting.
The Australian Koala Foundation said a recent survey showed the population could have dropped by more [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: bushfires, Climate Change, Koalas, species extinction
Comments: 1
Keep an Eye on the SOUTH POLE – DAY 1
This is a satellite picture of the weather patterns over the South Pole (Antarctica) on November 10th 2009. It has been suggested to the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation by an independent source that over the next 7 days we should keep an eye on what unfolds.
The source suggests there will be some significant weather implications developing [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2009 under Foundation News.
Tags: Antarctica, West Antarctic
Comments: 3
Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower
Comment – Greenhouse Neutral Foundation: When you read this report, study the graph issued by the IEA only the dark blue section on “Current production” has any meaning. The rest has been boosted and is unreliable.
Then look around your room, inside your car and anywhere else and note everything that is made from plastic, all [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Negotiations.
Tags: International Energy Agency, Oil Industry, Peak Oil, World Oil Reserves
Comments: none
Environmental Agency Warns 2 Staff Lawyers Over Video Criticizing Climate Policy
Source – New York Times …………The Environmental Protection Agency has directed two of its lawyers to makes changes to a YouTube video they posted that is critical of the Obama administration’s climate change policy.
The agency, citing federal policies, told the two lawyers, Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, who are married and based in San Francisco, [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2009 under Climate Change, Foundation News, General, Technologies.
Tags: Cap & Trade, Carbon Capture & Storage, Carbon Leakage, Carbon offsets, Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, CO2 levels, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Obama administration
Comments: 2
Q&A: Climate change- What is climate change and why should we be concerned about it?
What is climate change?
The Earth’s climate has always varied, so the term climate change is now generally used to describe the changes caused by human activity – specifically, greenhouse emissions such as carbon dioxide and methane, which build up in the atmosphere and trap heat.
Is it the same as global warming?
As human activity increases the [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, CO2 levels, global warming, methane, natural systems
Comments: 1
A poem from a heart of despair
‘Kevin Carter 1994′
He waited to collect the image, for the moment
when the bird would open its wings and lunge
for the child, starving in the Sudanese sand.
And later, he cannot decide how long after
he walked away she rasped air through her body:
Arabic, “further, further,” a kilometer from food.
His attempts to photograph his adaptation
of life as something [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2009 under Foundation News, General.
Tags: Climate Change, Hunger, starvation, Third World
Comments: 3
Activist Captain Paul Watson talks with passion of saving the environment
A famed environmentalist came to Chico State University on Saturday to give a serious talk about the environment, but with the way he played to the crowd at times, he could just as easily have been a comedian.
Capt. Paul Watson, subject of the Animal Planet and Discovery Channel series “Whale Wars,” was a keynote speaker [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2009 under General, Interviews with Activists, Nature.
Tags: activism, activists, Whale wars
Comments: none
On Sunday December 7th 1941 they were sunk. On December 7th 2009 we were again!
The bombing of Pearl Harbour on December 7th woke up the USA and brought the reluctant world power into the Second World War.
Here we sat 68 years later awaiting the arrival of December 7th 2009 when again the reluctant nations would be asked to join the world in the biggest fight the planet has ever [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2009 under Climate Change, Foundation News, General, Interviews with Activists, Negotiations.
Tags: Climate Change, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, global warming, International negotiations, Obama administration, stop climate change
Comments: 2
