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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]