Key Canada climate centre faces closure - Americas - Al Jazeera English
These guys are important researchers in climate change and the effects of Keystone XL pipeline into the US that would cause catastrophic climate warming.
We cannot allow money to talk louder than our childrens' childrens' childrens' voices.
Help.. .. .
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Friday, March 29, 2013
Important to Reduce Risks for Climate Catastrophes: " Just Because Climate Change Is Irreversible Doesn’t Mean It Is Unstoppable"
We need to challenge misinterpretations of data about climate change and our future:
Humans have already caused a 0.8 centigrade rise in global temperatures and have released enough carbon to cause another 0.8 centigrade rise in temperature for a total of 1.6 degree rise in global temperatures already.
Some have claimed that we are therefore doomed and don't need to take action to divest from dirty carbon energy (and nuclear).
That is wrong.
But if we act immediately to divest from dirty energy fuels and invest into renewable, clean, free energy such as solar and wind. . . . .divest from dirty energy including "clean coal". .. dirty coal, dirty nuclear risks, dirty petroleum, dirty oil, dirty gas including methane CH4. . . .and invest immediately into renewable clean and free energy infrastructure with help from all asap immediately now yesterday. . . . .then we can reduce risks from catastrophic storms and rising seas.
We have no time to waste . . . .and cannot afford the destructive tactics of the dirty energy industry that has spent millions, billions of dollars to discredit and derail efforts to reduce risks of deadly climate change.
Instead, we need the dirty energy industry to help transform our economy from a dirty energy-driven economy into a more logical economy, a logical economy that values the invaluable enough to protect its childrens' futures from self-destruction.
March 29 News: Just Because Climate Change Is Irreversible Doesn’t Mean It Is Unstoppable: pConfusion over what cutting carbon emissions will do is complicating the whole issue, says a new article in Science. [Climate Central] There is widespread confusion about the near-term benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and that misunderstanding may be complicating the formidable task of reducing manmade global warming, argue two climate researchers in Science in [...]/p "The duo challenge what they say have become pervasive misinterpretations of recent scientific results, including findings from a 2010 National Research Council report they helped write that said that the amount of global warming to date is essentially irreversible on the timescale of about 1,000 years. That study has been repeatedly cited by policymakers to justify delays in tackling carbon emissions by making global warming appear to be inexorable, regardless of what actions are taken.
Humans have already caused a 0.8 centigrade rise in global temperatures and have released enough carbon to cause another 0.8 centigrade rise in temperature for a total of 1.6 degree rise in global temperatures already.
Some have claimed that we are therefore doomed and don't need to take action to divest from dirty carbon energy (and nuclear).
That is wrong.
But if we act immediately to divest from dirty energy fuels and invest into renewable, clean, free energy such as solar and wind. . . . .divest from dirty energy including "clean coal". .. dirty coal, dirty nuclear risks, dirty petroleum, dirty oil, dirty gas including methane CH4. . . .and invest immediately into renewable clean and free energy infrastructure with help from all asap immediately now yesterday. . . . .then we can reduce risks from catastrophic storms and rising seas.
We have no time to waste . . . .and cannot afford the destructive tactics of the dirty energy industry that has spent millions, billions of dollars to discredit and derail efforts to reduce risks of deadly climate change.
Instead, we need the dirty energy industry to help transform our economy from a dirty energy-driven economy into a more logical economy, a logical economy that values the invaluable enough to protect its childrens' futures from self-destruction.
March 29 News: Just Because Climate Change Is Irreversible Doesn’t Mean It Is Unstoppable: pConfusion over what cutting carbon emissions will do is complicating the whole issue, says a new article in Science. [Climate Central] There is widespread confusion about the near-term benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and that misunderstanding may be complicating the formidable task of reducing manmade global warming, argue two climate researchers in Science in [...]/p "The duo challenge what they say have become pervasive misinterpretations of recent scientific results, including findings from a 2010 National Research Council report they helped write that said that the amount of global warming to date is essentially irreversible on the timescale of about 1,000 years. That study has been repeatedly cited by policymakers to justify delays in tackling carbon emissions by making global warming appear to be inexorable, regardless of what actions are taken.
But Matthews and Solomon rebut that justification, writing instead that, “the irreversibility of past changes does not mean that future warming is unavoidable.”"
It wasn't until I went to graduate school that I learned that my world wasn't made up of little boxes piled up on top of each other, my world made up of boxes of categories of classifications that I had learned about as a child.
Instead, I learned that life is instead a series of interlinking, inalienable continuums, of gradations between opposites and the trick is to find the most effective adjustments between polar opposites. Cash systems do not allow this usually. Cash is instead a tool that we can use to invest in infrastructure to enable our system to keep our systems alive, cell or self or globe. .. .to hold the fragile web for all life intact.
We need all hands on deck to help now asap immediately yesterday.
Let's get busy now. Thanks, Team.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
How Global Warming has Prevented Spring's Arrival
"If we continue on the path that we're on, and continue to do nothing to stop the devastating effects of climate change, we won't just be talking about freezing temperatures during the first week of spring.
We'll be talking about the beginning of an out-of-control spiral of weather effects that could range from a new ice age to the death of our oceans."
How Global Warming has Prevented Spring's Arrival
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Direct Links Between Coal and Birth Defect Rates in Appalacia from ilovemountains.org:
Please notice the Direct Links Between Coal and Birth Defect Rates in Appalacia from ilovemountains.org:
http://ilovemountains.org/the-human-cost
Birth Defect Rates for KY, TN, VA, and WV: 1996 - 2003
Data Sources: The Gallup-Healthways Well Being Index, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (Life Expectancy and Population), National Center for Health Statistics natality data (birth defects), Extent of Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia – 2009 combined with most recent active surface mine mine permits approved since the study was completed (acreage impacted), Center for Disease Control (death rates for all cancer, chronic cardiovascular disease, lung cancer, and all causes), The 2010 US Census (poverty rate and population)
Please note the direct links between coal mining and birth defect rates in Appalacia. . ...the costs of birth defects impossible to count in human cash. Please note also that Also http://appvoices.org/2013/03/25/americas-sadness-belt/
Birth Defect Rates for KY, TN, VA, and WV: 1996 - 2003
Data Sources: The Gallup-Healthways Well Being Index, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (Life Expectancy and Population), National Center for Health Statistics natality data (birth defects), Extent of Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia – 2009 combined with most recent active surface mine mine permits approved since the study was completed (acreage impacted), Center for Disease Control (death rates for all cancer, chronic cardiovascular disease, lung cancer, and all causes), The 2010 US Census (poverty rate and population)
http://ilovemountains.org/the-human-cost
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