Climate Crisis Will Be Much Worse Than Economic Crisis
Gore Warns of Sub-Prime Carbon Catastrophe Environment News Service http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2008/2008-09-27-01.asp NEW YORK, New York, September 27, 2008 (ENS) – “I believe we’ve reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction [applause] of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration,” Al Gore declared at the opening [...]
The People of Australia Take Action
Climate emergency: birth of a new protest movement Ben Courtice http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/768/39606 20 September 2008 In the room are a chemical engineer from a large mining/energy corporation, a solar energy engineer, a psychiatrist, a veterinarian, an artist and a construction worker. Also present are an ex-Labor Party activist, a Greens candidate in the 2007 election and [...]
Gore Urges Civil Disobedience to Stop Coal Plants
Planet Ark http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/50351/story.htm Story by Michelle Nichols Story Date: 25/9/2008 NEW YORK – Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental crusader Al Gore urged young people on Wednesday to engage in civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal plants without the ability to store carbon. The former US vice president, whose climate change documentary “An [...]
The Methane Time Bomb
Tuesday 23 September 2008 by: Steve Conner, The Independent UK Arctic scientists discover new global warming threat as melting permafrost releases millions of tons of a gas 20 times more damaging than carbon dioxide. The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released [...]
Is the financial crisis more dire than the climate crisis?
ClimateProgress.org http://climateprogress.org/2008/09/21/is-the-financial-crisis-more-dire-than-the-climate-crisis/ September 21st, 2008 Not even close. If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late. What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future. This is the defining moment. So warned IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri last fall when the IPCC released its major multi-year report synthesizing our understanding [...]
A Genuine Progress Index
A Genuine Progress Index (GPI) would allow us to measure social and environmental factors of well-being with the same authority and enthusiasm with which we measure GDP. It would show whether social and environmental factors are improving or deteriorating and would create the awareness needed to stimulate serious actions toward solving the problems. Please help [...]
Downward Trend of Polar Ice Loss Getting Steeper
Arctic Ice Melts to Second-Lowest Level Planet Ark http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/50269/story.htm
Roll back time to safeguard climate, expert warns
A return to pre-industrial levels of carbon dioxide urged as the only way to prevent the worst impacts of global warming David Adam www.guardian.co.uk, Monday September 15 2008 11:16 BST Scientists may have to turn back time and clean the atmosphere of all man-made carbon dioxide to prevent the worst impacts of global warming, one [...]
Phase out coal and burn trees instead, urges leading scientist
Current targets on emissions are ‘a recipe for global disaster, not salvation’ By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor Sunday, 14 September 2008 www.Independent.co.uk The public are ahead of the game on climate change Humanity must urgently embark on a massive programme to power civilisation from wood to stave off catastrophic climate change, one of the world’s [...]
Escaping Global Climate Business-As-Usual
Escaping BAU – 450ppm, 2 Degrees C, Change Now By Bill Henderson 16 October, 2007 Countercurrents.org http://www.countercurrents.org/henderson161007.htm Last week Tim Flannery revealed that the next IPCC report will reveal that greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere have passed the 450( E)ppm level a full decade ahead of earlier IPCC prediction. 450ppm is the precautionary ceiling [...]
