Tag: 350ppm
Klein & McKibben of 350.org: Take off the kid gloves with Obama.
Klein & McKibben: Take off the kid gloves with Obama.
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Posted: December 21st, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Negotiations.
Tags: 350ppm, activists, Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, European Union, global warming, International negotiations, Kyoto, Obama administration, United Nations
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Climate scientist James Hansen discusses Copenhagen summit with the ABC’s Lateline program
Dr James Hansen heads NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Science. The institute has been publishing global temperature data since 1987 and is now one of the key sources of data for climate scientists.
Hansen’s own testimony to the US Congress in 1988 brought world attention to global warming. His latest book Storms of my Grandchildren carries [...]
Posted: December 9th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Negotiations, Tipping Points.
Tags: 350ppm, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, global warming, International negotiations, stop climate change
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Cap and Fade – Opinion by James Hansen
AT the international climate talks in Copenhagen, President Obama is expected to announce that the United States wants to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to about 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050. But at the heart of his plan is cap and trade, a market-based approach that has been [...]
Posted: December 7th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Negotiations, Tipping Points.
Tags: 350ppm, Cap & Trade, carbon tax, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate change emissions reductions, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, Emissions Trading Scheme, global warming, International negotiations
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‘It’s Not the Kind of Thing Where You Can Compromise’ James Hansen
Climate scientist James Hansen talks about global warming, Copenhagen, and his new book.
James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, is one of the world’s most famous climatologists. He testified at a 1988 U.S. Senate hearing that the emission of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels was already producing a [...]
Posted: November 25th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Interviews with Activists, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: 350ppm, activist, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, global warming, Kyoto, Obama administration, science, stop climate change
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Imagine What Our World Could Look Like
There can be few on the Planet that would not want to take action and imagine how our world could be and how John Lennon saw it possible.
john lennon: Imagine
by MONALIZA007
These are personal choices that we can all make to bring about change. As I say in the book:
Feel no guilt for being part of the problem, [...]
Posted: November 24th, 2009 under Climate Change, Foundation News, General, Green Living.
Tags: 350ppm, activists, Climate Change, emissions reductions, living greener, pollution, reduce waste, stop climate change
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We have met the deniers, and they are us
Names of shame, ignominy, criminals against humanity, against planet Earth itself. Agents of the lethal delays in our response to escalating, accelerating, catastrophic global warming.
Yet, as deniers of climate change, they’re amateurs compared to us. Us activists, environmentalists, scientists, and certainly Copenhagen politicians.
Even though we’re believers, not skeptics, our denial is far more insidious and [...]
Posted: November 20th, 2009 under Climate Change, Foundation News, General, Negotiations.
Tags: 350ppm, activists, Climate Change, CO2 levels, emissions reductions, stop climate change
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The cannibals of Earths’ future are they coming or here now?
A Reality Check From the Brink of Extinction
PLEASE NOTE. The Greenhouse Neutral Foundation determined this provocative discussion in the article below deserved full exposure on the site and has reproduced the piece in its entirety. It gives full credit to AlterNet.org and to Chris Hedges.
Chris Hedges in TruthDig channels the radical thinking of Derek Jensen and [...]
Posted: October 25th, 2009 under Climate Change, Foundation News, General, Interviews with Activists, Nature.
Tags: 350ppm, activists, arctic, catastrophic climate change, CO2 Emissions, coal lobby, Corporations, global warming, methane, natural systems, Oil Industry, sea level rise
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Confused About All the Climate Talk and the Copenhagen Summit? Here’s the Skinny: Five Things You Should Know
By Tara Lohan, AlterNet. Posted October 23, 2009.
The who, what, where, when and why about COP 15, which strangely means: the “Council of Parties.”
There’s a lot of buzz about COP15, the big climate-change meeting coming up — what exactly is all the hype about, and why should you care? Here’s a simple breakdown.
1. What the [...]
Posted: October 23rd, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Negotiations.
Tags: 350ppm, Climate Change, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, global warming, International negotiations, United States
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We can afford to save the planet
Here is the good news on the climate front: The Europeans have ratcheted down their emissions targets, the Chinese are getting serious about solar power and energy efficiency, and Washington is lumbering toward a carbon cap.
These are steps toward the long-held goal: cutting global warming pollution 80 percent by 2050. Such cuts would stabilize the [...]
Posted: October 23rd, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Negotiations.
Tags: 350ppm, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate negotiations, CO2 levels, Copenhagen, International negotiations
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Why 350 Is A Magic Number
Facing climate disaster, African countries are calling for a fast greenhouse gas reduction to 350 parts per million ahead of the global climate protests this Saturday
The battle over carbon emissions has so far been fought mainly between big and powerful players. In countries like Australia, the coal industry has battled environmentalists and taken on solar [...]
Posted: October 20th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Negotiations, Tipping Points.
Tags: 350ppm, activism, activist, activists, arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate negotiations, Copenhagen, emissions reductions, global warming, International negotiations, Obama administration, science, sea level rise, stop climate change
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