Archive for 'Climate Politics'
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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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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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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It’s Not a Democracy Unless We Call It Our Own — 6 Ways to Make It Happen
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment – We have long promoted that one voice can make a difference when added to by another. In this excellent article Jim Hightower presents a sound case for joint action. WE CAN get a movement going – TOGETHER – also see ‘Coalition of the Willing’ here
Let the ideas percolate up from [...]
Posted: July 10th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General.
Tags: activism, activists, Climate Change, global warming, Obama administration, stop climate change
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Will you join in a ‘Coalition of the Willing’?
As you watch this compelling animated video presentation ask yourself if you want to become part of the solution to the problems we face of our own making.
You can be the solution as a single voice that joins many others. Personally I have and am committed to being engaged to create change in our troubled [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, World News.
Tags: activism, activists, Climate Change, global warming
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A message from Obama
Today we received a message from the Obama Administration that the Foundation was asked to share with you. As regular visitors to the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation will know, we are bi-partisan when it comes to issues of politics. We endorse no political party or position. We do endorse CHANGE from the polluting ways of the [...]
Posted: June 22nd, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, World News.
Tags: Obama administration, Oil Industry, Oil Lobby, Oil Spill, United States
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