by nate on Monday, December 14th, 2009 | Health, News, Weather, World | No Comments

COPENHAGEN — On the 30th of November, 2009 the governments of the world attended to Copenhagen for the fifteenth UN Climate Conference (COP-15). This will be the biggest summit on climate change ever to have taken place.

A large numbers of protesters took to the streets of Copenhagen on Saturday to demand a strong global-climate pact, even as world leaders reiterated that the coming week’s talks will not lead to a binding legal agreement.

Among the balloons and climate-themed sails waved during the massive demonstration flew the flags of left-of-centre European political parties, as well as signs reading “there is no planet B.”

While most of the march was peaceful, riot police detained between 600 and 800 people around the Danish capital after some black-clad demonstrators threw bottles and smashed windows.

“And the number is growing,” police spokesman Flemming Steen Munch said.

The marchers spread out across six kilometres as they walked toward Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the high-security site of the international talks.

Estimates ranged from 30,000 upwards to 100,000 protesters, all of whom flocked to the Danish capital from across Europe and the world.

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Tags: climate change, climate change's summit, climate conference, copenhagen, global warming, mass protest, protests, save the planet

by wildcherry on Monday, December 7th, 2009 | News, World | No Comments

The Environmental Protection Agency concluded earlier today that climate changing pollution threatens the public health and the environment.

The announcement came as the Obama administration looked to boost its arguments at an international climate conference that the United States is aggressively taking actions to combat global warming, even though Congress has yet to act on climate legislation. The conference opened Monday in Copenhagen.

The EPA said that the scientific evidence surrounding climate change clearly shows that greenhouse gases “threaten the public health and welfare of the American people” and that the pollutants – mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels – should be regulated under the Clean Air Act.

“These long-overdue findings cement 2009’s place in history as the year when the United States government began addressing the challenge of greenhouse-gas pollution,” said EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson at news conference.

The action by the EPA, which has been anticipated for months, clearly was timed to add to the momentum toward some sort of agreement on climate change at the Copenhagen conference and try to push Congress to approve climate legislation.

Under a Supreme Court ruling, the so-called endangerment finding is needed before the EPA can regulate carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases released from automobiles, power plants, and factories under the federal Clean Air Act.

The EPA signaled last April that it was inclined to view heat-trapping pollution as a threat to public health and welfare and began to take public comments under a formal rulemaking. The action marked a reversal from the Bush administration, which had refused before leaving office to issue the finding, despite a conclusion by EPA scientists that it was warranted.

Tags: climate change, Environmental Protection Agency, Epa, Epa Greenhouse Gases, global warming, Green News, Greenhouse Gases

by wildcherry on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 | News, Weird | No Comments

Thousands of emails and documents were posted on the Internet after being hacked from Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University in the United Kingdom.

The hacking and release raises obvious ethical and even legal questions over the alleged behavior of scientists who advocate the view that human activity is a significant cause of global warming.

Global warming deniers claim the documents suggest that scientists are pushing an “agenda” that humans are responsible for global warming.

In the hundreds of emails that were stolen and have been taken out of context, there isn’t actual evidence of such a plot.

The hacked emails involve both American and European researchers, and according to the New York Times they include “discussions of scientific data and whether it should be released, exchanges about how best to combat the arguments of skeptics, and casual comments — in some cases derisive — about specific people known for their skeptical views.”

The emails also suggest “bitter feelings” involved in the debate between those on both sides of the issue of global warming and the seriousness of the threat.

Read More: Huffington Post

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by argyll2002 on Monday, December 1st, 2008 | Life | 2 Comments

Global warming is something i think we should all take seriously and here is a poem about how we can all do something to help.

A human Solution

This world belongs
To you and I
The oceans, seas
Lands and sky

So why do people
Seek to destroy
This very planet
We’re supposed to enjoy

With greenhouse gases
And high pollution
It is only we humans
That has the solution

So start with your rubbish
Try and recycle it
And at least you’ll know
You are helping a bit

And in case you decide
To give it a miss
Go out in the garden
And try to do this

Take a deep breath
Lay on the grass
Look up at the sky
And watch the clouds pass

This is the earth
And there is only one
So let’s try and maintain it
For generations to come

By James

www.alifeofrhyme.blogspot.com

Tags: climate change, environment, global warming, Greenhouse gas, poem, poetry, Pollution

by nate on Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 | Inspiration, Knowledge, Life | 4 Comments

For many years, large, influential businesses and governments have been against the idea of global warming. Many have poured a lot of resources into discrediting what has generally been accepted for a long time as real. Now, the mainstream is generally worried about climate change impacts and the discourse seems to have shifted accordingly. Even some businesses that once engaged in disinformation campaigns have changed their opinions, some even requesting governments for regulation and direction on this issue. However, a few influential companies and organizations are still attempting to undermine climate change action and concerns. Will all this mean a different type of spin and propaganda with attempts at green washing and misleading information becoming the norm, or will there now be major shift in attitudes to see concrete solutions being proposed and implemented?

taken from globalissue.org

Tags: climate change, earth, global crisis, global warming

by nate on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 | News, World | No Comments

(taken from msnbc.com)
Some current hotspots will lose their appeal, but others stand to benefit

By David S. Hirschman
updated 6:57 a.m. PT, Wed., Oct. 15, 2008

Predictions about the rate of global warming vary greatly, but even by conservative estimates it’s likely to have a big effect on travel. Many current tourist hotspots will literally be too hot for comfort, while others will lose their natural beauty, be prone to catastrophic storms—or simply be underwater.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the planet’s average temperature could increase by as much as 3.5 degrees celsius by 2100, causing sea levels to rise nearly four feet. If the Greenland and Antarctic continental ice sheets then melt—as some predict—sea levels could rise by an additional 30 feet. Potential side effects include increasingly intense storms, catastrophic heat waves and global flooding on a biblical scale.

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Tags: climate change, global warming, National Center for Atmospheric Research