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Depending on the sources, a lot of different aspects of our lives are endangered by climate change. What do you think is most at risk from Climate Change around the world — from the direct effects of climate change and the impact of actions we need to take to combat climate change?
A new Enviroment/Climate poll has been created.
Copenhagen, Denmark – United Nations Climate Change Conference (Dec. 7 – 18, 2009) or COP15, is seen as a critical turning point in the world’s battle against climate change. Many people – and governments – still consider Climate Change ‘tomorrow’s problem,’ but already livelihoods, lives, wildlife and eco-systems around the world are seeing the effects first-hand. Are you affected? Have you witnessed the effects of Climate Change?
A new Enviroment/Climate poll has been created.
Should the Federal Government permit exploring and drilling for oil off our shores?
A new Enviroment/Climate poll has been created.
The White House tries to maintain the focus on healthcare and other policies. But former president’s Jimmy Carter’s comments about opponents’ racism toward Obama strike a chord on both sides. Is race at the center of the attacks on this administration?
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A dust storm swept across eastern Australia and blanketed Sydney on Wednesday, disrupting transport, placing health authorities on alert for widespread respiratory illness and stripping thousands of tonnes of topsoil off Australia’s main farmlands.
Is this a direct result of Climate Change, or just a random severe weather event?
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Complaints re Van Jones center around Jones’ background and statements he previously made as an activist. Specifically, conservative blogs and media outlets have seized on a harshly-worded petition Jones signed in 2004 demanding further investigations into the 9/11 attacks. Jones has clarified since then, saying of the petition that “it certainly does not reflect my views, now or ever.
A new Enviroment/Climate poll has been created.
Recently WWF and other international organizations aimed to raise awareness of our global warming climate crisis by switching off lights for an hour in major cities and landmarks around the world. did it work, did it help?
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The December 2009 talks are the latest in a line of climate conferences that began in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. This year the focus will be on the details of a new global climate agreement for when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
The stakes are high.
The representatives of 192 national governments, along with countless lobbyists and special interest groups, will gather between 7-18 December against a backdrop of increasingly gloomy academic papers, all predicting dramatic and catastrophic changes to the world — unless we act right now.
According to Kofi Annan’s Global Humanitarian Forum, there are already more than 300,000 deaths per year directly attributable to climate change. While hundreds of studies around the world have linked climate change to phenomena including the increased frequency and intensity of hurricanes and other storms, changing rainfall patterns, drought, coastal flooding, changing disease patterns and the migration of human populations.
As a result climate change is no longer just a “green” issue, with organizations now campaigning for action also including trade unions, humanitarian NGOs such as Oxfam, Christian Aid and the Red Cross; even civil groups, like the Women’s Institute in the UK, are demanding action.
But, despite this broadening of the issue and what most experts argue is unequivocal scientific proof that we need to act immediately to avoid even more serious consequences, so far activists agree that the necessary changes aren’t coming nearly fast enough.
With the clock ticking, Friends of the Earth believe that now is the time for radical change: “What we need to see in Copenhagen is genuine shifts toward making the cuts [in emissions] needed in developed countries, the commitment to the finance needed to support developing countries, and perhaps most of all, an abandonment of failed policies — or false solutions.
“This boils down to ensuring [industrialized] countries commit to making at least 40 percent cuts by 2020 without recourse to offsetting within this range, mobilize the necessary international finance to support mitigation in developing countries and protect forests without using offset mechanisms to buy up tracks of rainforest at the expense of making real industrial emissions cuts at home.” Will they do enough?
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U.S. Govt. recently approved extension of ‘Cash for Clunkers’ program adding another US$2 Billion to the budget. The program provides up to US $4500 as a trade in for swapping an old ‘gas-guzzler’ vehicle for a new efficient vehicle. Good idea or political folly?
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