Archive for 'Climate Change'
Am I an activist for caring about my grandchildren’s future? I guess I am
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment – I have long admired James Hansen as a person who cares for the future of all that we share our fragile planet with. The answers to all of the significant challenges we face in the imminent future is in OUR hands.
We need to accept this moral responsibility. The following article [...]
Posted: August 28th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, Tipping Points.
Tags: activism, activist, activists, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate negotiations, CO2 levels, coal, glacial melt, global warming, International negotiations, Obama administration, Oil Industry, Tipping Points, United States
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Have you heard the one about the two frogs chatting?
From Yale Forum on Climate Change & Media comes the following story – How true! You may also be interested in the feature The Caribou and us.
August 24, 2010
No doubt that some who take the ongoing global climate change challenges seriously have from time to time had visions of others fiddling while Rome burns.
It’s just [...]
Posted: August 25th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General.
Tags: Climate Change, global warming, United States
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Science stunner: Vast East Siberian Arctic Shelf methane store destabilizing and venting
NSF issues world a wake-up call: “Release of even a fraction of the methane stored in the shelf could trigger abrupt climate warming.”
March 4, 2010
Methane release from the not-so-perma-frost is the most dangerous amplifying feedback in the entire carbon cycle. Research published in Friday’s journal Science finds a key “lid” on “the large sub-sea permafrost [...]
Posted: August 16th, 2010 under Climate Change, Foundation News, General, Tipping Points, World News.
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The Caribou and us.
Sometimes the most important news is what is not happening.
That comment in a recent article along with the following adaptation (from the French) of a story sent to me by a colleague in Quebec Canada made me reflect on why the global community is not focused and active on pushing for immediate reductions in greenhouse [...]
Posted: August 15th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, Nature, World News.
Tags: arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, Ice free Arctic, methane, permafrost
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We either cut global warming or live with it
By Daniel Gros Director of the Centre for European Policy Studies.
Sometimes the most important news is what is not happening.
This summer has given us one such example: the climate change bill, for which the US President Barack Obama had pushed so hard, will not even be presented to the US Senate because it stands no [...]
Posted: August 13th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General.
Tags: Cancoon, China, Climate Change, CO2 levels, coal, Coal Fired Power Stations, India, International negotiations, Kyoto, United States
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Greenland ice sheet faces ‘tipping point in 10 years’
Scientists warn that temperature rise of between 2C and 7C would cause ice to melt, resulting in 23ft rise in sea level
The entire ice mass of Greenland will disappear from the world map if temperatures rise by as little as 2C, with severe consequences for the rest of the world, a panel of scientists told [...]
Posted: August 13th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, World News.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, greenland, icesheet loss, sea level rise, Tipping Points
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Massive ice island breaks off Greenland
August 7th — A piece of ice four times the size of Manhattan island has broken away from an ice shelf in Greenland, according to scientists in the U.S.
The 260 square-kilometer (100 square miles) ice island separated from the Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland early on Thursday, researchers based at the University of Delaware said.
The [...]
Posted: August 8th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, World News.
Tags: #BREAKING NEWS, arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, greenland, Ice free Arctic, icesheet loss, sea level rise, Tipping Points
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An evil atmosphere is forming around geoengineering
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment – In the series Letters from 2030, we wrote about geoengineering in the piece Man’s folly – The Hail Mary Clouds. A visitor commented this must be fiction – until she researched the issue. This tampering with the planet must not be allowed to take place. As you read through the [...]
Posted: July 24th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Nature, World News.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, geo-enginineering, global warming, scientists, World News
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We’ve got the power (to change the World)
JP Taylor the inspiring environmental activist educator has the vision to create change together. He knows as does the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation, that together we’ve got the power. In this inspirational collaboration he inspires us to use the power we have. Thanks to JP – Suzanne and Imke Pearson for making this presentation the inspiration [...]
Posted: July 24th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, Nature.
Tags: activism, Climate Change, global warming, Greenhouse Neutral Foundation, stop climate change
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There comes a time when we come together as one
Planet Earth – We are the World. We are the ones who can make the World a better place. There comes a time when we come together as one – let’s make that time now for all of Earths creatures.
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Posted: July 24th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Foundation News, General, Green Living, Nature.
Tags: activism, Bob Williamson, Climate Change, global warming, Greenhouse Neutral Foundation, natural systems, stop climate change
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