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Check out this video about the global climate change action taking place on Sunday all over the world.Check out this video about the global climate change action taking place on Sunday all... more
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Global Work Party this Sunday: Most Widespread Day of Environmental Action in History.
Over 7,000 events are expected to take place in 185 countries for the 10/10/10 Global Work Party, making the 10th of October the most widespread day of environmental action in the planet’s history.
Videos to be posted soon!
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The Center for Biological Diversity and Turtle Island Restoration Network announced that they intend to sue the Obama administration for illegally delaying protection of penguins under the Endangered Species Act.
"The Department of the Interior failed to meet the December 19, 2009 legal deadline to finalize the listings of seven penguin species that are threatened by climate change and industrial fisheries. Until the listings are finalized, these penguins will not receive the Endangered Species Act protections they need to recover.
“While sea ice melts away and the oceans warm, the Obama administration is frozen in inaction. Instead of protecting penguins and taking meaningful steps to address global warming,” said Shaye Wolf, a biologist with the Center for Biological Diversity, “our government is dragging its feet while penguins are marching toward extinction.”
“Penguins face a double whammy from the threats brought by climate change and industrial fisheries that deplete the penguins’ food supply and entangle and drown the penguins in longlines and other destructive fishing gear. They deserve protection under the Endangered Species Act,” said Todd Steiner, executive director of Turtle Island Restoration Network.
In 2006 the Center filed a petition to list 12 penguin species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. In December 2008, the Interior Department proposed listing seven penguin species as threatened or endangered — African, Humboldt, yellow-eyed, white-flippered, Fiordland crested, and erect-crested penguins and a few populations of the southern rockhopper penguin — while denying listing to emperor and northern rockhopper penguins despite scientific evidence that these penguins are threatened by climate change.
While today’s notice challenges the Interior Department’s illegal delay in finalizing the listing of seven penguin species, the Center and Turtle Island Restoration Network also intend to file suit against the Interior Department for unlawfully denying Endangered Species Act protections to emperor and rockhopper penguins.
“So far the Obama administration has done even less for penguins than Bush did,” said Wolf. “Interior Secretary Salazar seems unwilling to complete the final steps to protect some penguin species started by the Bush administration, let alone correct the Bush administration’s illegal denial of protection to the emperor penguin. Where’s the change we were promised?”
Climate change and industrial fisheries pose the primary threats to penguins, although many species of these charismatic birds also face threats from oil pollution, predators, and habitat destruction. Warming oceans and diminished sea ice have wreaked havoc on penguin food availability. For example, krill, an essential food source not just for penguins but also for whales and seals, has declined by as much as 80 percent since the 1970s over large areas of the Southern Ocean with the loss of sea ice. Less food has led to population declines in species ranging from the southern rockhopper and Humboldt penguins of the islands off South America to the African penguin in southern Africa.
Ocean acidification, resulting from the ocean’s absorption of human-produced carbon dioxide, is expected to produce lethal conditions for key marine organisms at the base of the Southern Ocean food web as early as 2030, which will have cascading effects on penguins. Industrial fisheries that deplete the penguins’ food supply and entangle and drown the penguins in fishing gear also pose a significant threat to these unique animals.
Listing under the Endangered Species Act would provide broad protection to penguins from a variety of threats, raise awareness of their urgent plight, and increase research funding. Federal approval of fishing permits for U.S.-flagged vessels operating on the high seas would require analysis and minimization of impacts on the listed penguins. The Act also has an important role to play in reducing greenhouse gas pollution by compelling federal agencies to look at the impact of the emissions generated by their activities on listed penguins and to adopt solutions to reduce emissions.
Protecting penguins will require national and international action to slow climate change. Leading climate scientists have concluded that the atmospheric CO2 level must be reduced to less than 350 parts per million to prevent dangerous climate change and protect vulnerable species like penguins. Doing so will require the United States to cut its greenhouse gas emissions to 45 percent or more below 1990 levels by 2020. However, President Obama pledged an insufficient 3-percent reduction in the Copenhagen Accord.
For more information on penguins and a link to the federal petition, please see: http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/birds/penguins/index.html
For information on how penguins are harmed by climate change and on the importance of reducing atmospheric CO2 to less than 350 parts per million, see our “350 Reasons to Get to 350” Web page: http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/climate_law_institute/350_reasons/index.html"
Meanwhile, life wouldn't be complete if we didn't leave you with a few dancing and rapping penguins we met during our live call in to Copenhagen:
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Sex sells...but will it get people to contact their political leaders in the name of climate change?
That's what 22 year old model Cameron Russell was aiming for when she produced the video below of models stripping in the name of climate change. Cameron explains,
We were so inspired by the pictures we saw coming in from around the world on 350.org , that we wanted to help. We figured we'd try to get the point across the best way we know how--with clothes, or really, with the lack of clothes.
Who ever said that 350 parts per million is our “natural state”? After all, the past million years or so has CO2 levels see-sawed between about 180 and 285 parts per million. The 350 is a ‘best estimate’, best calculation as to the safe level of CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere for a prosperous human civilization.
Right now, humanity is adding enough Co2 into the carbon cycle (mainly, but not solely, from burning fossil fuels) to add about 2 ppm per year. We need to drive down our emissions that drive increased CO2 levels and then continue the process so that we are actually reducing CO2 levels.
So what next, pole dancing for climate change ? (I'm imaging polar bears in bikini's. Is that sick and wrong?)
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It's the question of the hour, right? Can we save the world from the destruction that the scientists are predicting?
350.org has coordinated the largest climate event in history to demonstrate that people around the world want to live in a safe and clean environment. But it's not your grandma's brand of protest. Actually...there will be no protest. No picketing. No parades. No police barricades. Just millions of people from around the world making images of 350.
When 350.org founder Bill McKibben says he is, "...tired of losing and it's fun to take the bad guys down a peg or two..." he wasn't kidding. McKibben skyped in to speak with Current Green from his home in Vermont while 350.org staffer May Boeve and climate activist/bike rider Adam Taylor of Ride 350 came in to our online studio to discuss what went into organizing what is predicted to be the largest climate event in history.
If 350.org has anything to do it with it, yes we can save the world from the predicted effects of climate change. The organization was made for the sole purpose of insuring that everyone knows the following fact:
350 is the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide—measured in "Parts Per Million" in our atmosphere. 350 PPM—it's the number humanity needs to get back to as soon as possible to avoid runaway climate change.
The bad news: we have already surpassed 350.
The good news: People around the world are organizing to put pressure on their climate negotiators who are preparing their stance for Copenhagen.
The current stats on the event (which get larger by the minute): 162 countries are signed up to participate (including Iraq, Afghanistan, Nepal, Honduras...) and more than 3,700 actions/events.
Are you participating? Show us your pictures! Tell us your story!
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Some people take up pickets, others chase senators around in "survivaballs." I'm a tad embarrassed to blog twice in one day about The Yes Men, but given that I just received 4 full minutes of laugh out loud belly laughter from their latest RIDICULOUS charge on Washington...who am I not to share?
(if you just want to see them get grabbed by a police men, howl as they roll down the steps...only to stand back up and speak about how the survivaball will save them..well..you are one sick puppy and should hang in until 1:49).
You can hear from The Yes Men in their own words about what they are up to:
Survivaballs Storm U.S. Capitol, Citing Frustration Over Senate Inaction on Climate
Washington, D.C. - On the heels of their pointed attack on the Chamber of Commerce today, the Yes Men along with other climate activists took the U.S. Capitol by storm wearing Survivaballs.
At one point, Mike Bonanno of the Yes Men, wearing a Survivaball, began a speech on the Capitol steps. "I think this is our country, our country!" he said, before being grabbed by a policeman. At that point he let out a bloodcurdling scream and tumbled all the way down the monumental Capitol steps. "I'm fine, I'm fine," he said at the bottom. "No matter what comes as a result of climate change, Survivaball can protect us." (Video here.)
At another point, a fleet of Survivaballs chased Senator Arlen Spector outside the Hart Senate Office Building. "Anyone as wishy-washy on climate issues as the Senator, who thinks that clean coal is an answer, needs a Survivaball," said Ross Finlayson, a top Surviva-model involved in the chase. "Maybe he ran away because he knew that even he couldn't afford one."
Survivaballs are the stupidest costume known to humankind, and the Yes Men say that their point is to highlight the absurdity of the Senate's slow pace in responding to climate change. Originally deployed by "Halliburton" at an insurance conference on the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast (full story here), they have now replicated, and a fleet of 20 are available as a tool for climate activists.
After their antics on the Capitol steps and in front of the Senate building, the Survivaballs continued their antics to the Chamber of Commerce, the White House and the Lincoln Memorial. More reports will be posted at www.theyesmen.org/plunge.
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South Asian paradise Maldives is one of the main countries most immediately threatened by the effects of climate change. With roughly 80 percent of its 1,200 islands 1m above sea level, Maldives’ President, Mohamed Nasheed has become a spokesperson for lowering atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to 350 ppm.
Circle of blue speaks with 350.org founder Bill McKibben and catches Nasheed’s speech at the UN conference in Copenhagen about the movement that has spawned around the figure. Meanwhile the groups are fighting to keep the 350 figure in the negotiating text.
“The Maldives team is fighting to keep 350 in the negotiating texts.” Nasheed said, “Continue the protest, continue after Copenhagen, continue despite the odds, and eventually we will reach that crucial number – the most important number in the world.”
“3-5-0 ensures that our country survives, 3-5-0 makes a better world possible.”South Asian paradise Maldives is one of the main countries most immediately threatened... more
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Circle of Blue’s Aubrey Parker reports on-the-ground from the Global Day of Action and reveals the truth behind sensational headlines that played up police arrests in Copenhagen.
Photo by Aubrey Parker/Circle of BlueClimate Change Demonstrators, including Greenpeace International, in Copenhagen.
COPENHAGEN — The Global Day of Action began Saturday in the South Pacific where the sun rises. The day of international protest started as an uplifting global demonstration calling for a “Real Deal” to come out of the climate negotiations in Copenhagen. More than 3,000 marches and candlelight vigils in 139 countries occurred — some yielding as many as 50,000 demonstrators— all with the intent of spreading this one common, unified message to policymakers.
This may well go down in history as the most coordinated showings of human solidarity and resolve in history.
But the poisoned arrows of the media were aimed at a public Hermes, as the winged-feet of marches advanced westward across the globe, carrying the message to world leaders: Respond to climate change now. There was no debate about science or politics here in the streets of Copenhagen on Saturday. The devil is in the details — small island nations are sinking and in need of assistance while major countries are scrambling to realign their markets for a new-century economy driven by clean energy.
By the time the sun had set in Copenhagen, Western journalists — with the sole intent of selling a dramatic, shallow story — hinged their coverage on the delinquency of a few (less than a dozen as it turns out). Reporters replaced the ethics of journalism and defaced the efforts of hundreds of thousands of people around the world trying to send a unified message.
While the 50,000 peaceful protesters congested the cobblestone streets of a thousand-year-old city — one that remembers when the carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere was over 100 parts per million less — the press took the misconduct of a minority and ruined the message for the majority. This week will be unprecedented as more than 100 heads of state will converge to — as the overwhelming majority of scientists report — decide the fate of our largest cities, our coastal zones, our glaciers, our agriculture, and our economies.
In pursuit to sell news, or Google hits, instead of the frightening reality at hand, many major media outlets are missing the Big Story.
Saturday began with peaceful, large-scale demonstrations in Melbourne, drawing tens of thousands of people into the streets. This was the fifth anniversary of “Walk Against Warming” in Australia, and according to an early morning report by the Associated Press, “Australian marchers lead world climate protests.” Similar titles included “Australians walk to pressure Copenhagen on climate change,” “Protesters demand climate for change,” and “New Zealand youth joins climate change demo” by Reuters, the Sydney Morning Herald, and the Otaga Daily Times respectively.
Interview with Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director Greenpeace International.The BBC displayed the first pictures of the day — the Australian “Walk Against Warming,” traditional Chinese drummers in Beijing, as well as face and body paint displays in the Philippines, South Africa and France. However, the energy and excitement behind such a massive movement waned as the sun moved westward across the globe.
The climate legislation activists were asking for slowly faded from headlines to make way for the enthralling tale of police beatings and incarcerations. What began with “Protesters call for bold pact on warming,” in the Boston Globe, but soon became “Copenhagen Climate Summit Protest: 600 Detained at Climate Rally Urging Bold Pact,” and “600 Detained at Climate Rally Urging Bold Pact,” in The Huffington Post and ABC News. By the time the sun had set in Copenhagen, the headlines transitioned solely to the number of arrests from the demonstration — “Nearly 1000 held after Copenhagen climate rally,” in Reuters and “Nearly 1,000 arrested in Copenhagen,” in RFI.
Like the childhood game of “telephone,” the phrase whispered into a neighboring reporter’s ear became increasingly more dramatic, changing with every new media message. The climate demonstrations ended with a message that so radically changed their original sentiment: “Copenhagen talks stagnate as protest turns violent” reported the Australian Broadcasting Corporation News on Sunday.
It was official — in meager attempts to outbid each other, the media had completely skewed the way the world perceived the Global Day of Action.
Here in Copenhagen, I followed the marchers from start to finish along a 4-mile trek through neighborhoods, past ancient churches and alongside picturesque parks. I took photos and recorded interviews for Circle of Blue, alongside toddlers in one-piece snowsuits and an 89-year-old Danish woman carrying a steaming cup of coffee in one hand and a sign reading “The World Wants a Real Deal” in the other. I did not witness a single struggle between protesters and police during the entire four hours it took to walk from Christiansborg Slotsplads (Parliament Square) to the Bella Center where the United Nations climate negotiations are being held. Nor did anyone that I’ve spoken with over the past two days — other journalists, Danish cab drivers and internationals from Canada and Estonia. Compared to most U.S. football games, the crowd was saintly.
By the time the headlines began to emerge, some online reports were painting a portrait of simply young people marching for good-natured rebellion. And others were taking it even further, seeking any little barb or acerbic note. But the march contained people of all ages, from babies in strollers to old men waving. In many ways, it was the definition of family friendly and cordiality — people making way for others, families picnicking, restaurants opening their doors for people to use the restrooms — despite the striking scene the media has laid out in vivid headlines.
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There’s no doubt there were problems. A handful of anarchists dressed in all black — rightly named Black Box, who were part of the Youth Culture Center shut down by Danish police two years ago — stormed the rear of the parade, throwing rocks, paint and fireworks. Police responded by holding upwards of a 1,000 unrelated marchers in the cold for more than five hours on suspicion to attempt foul play. Less than a dozen were charged with any offense.
Yet this is what the majority of the news industry chose to focus on — the brutality of Danish police and the violence of protesters. The resounding message of the day has been completely distorted, as can be seen in the videos by major news sources that know better, such as the New York Times, NBC, and USA Today.Circle of Blue’s Aubrey Parker reports on-the-ground from the Global Day of... more
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Nepal's top politicians got their doctors OK, boarded a helicopter and strapped on oxygen tanks to assemble 17,192 feet above sea level on Mount Everest Friday for an event dubbed the world's highest cabinet meeting.
Yes, the event was a publicity stunt, but one for an important cause: climate change. In Nepal, it's not just an abstract issue, it's one that could very seriously affect their country and their people. According to The Associated Press, scientists claim Himalayan glaciers are melting at alarming speed, creating lakes with walls that could burst and flood villages below. Melting ice and snow also make the routes for mountaineers less stable and more difficult to follow.
This most unusual Cabinet meeting, which was attended by the Prime Minster, his two deputies and 20 Cabinet members, was meant to catch the attention of folks attending next week's international climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. At the brief, chilly Cabinet meeting, members signed a commitment to tighten environmental regulations and expand the nation's protected areas.
"The Everest declaration was a message to the world to minimize the negative impact of climate change on Mount Everest and other Himalayan mountains," Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal told reporters.
Friday's Cabinet meeting was significantly speedier than normal, and many preparations were taken to ensure the safety of all involved. On Thursday, the group stayed overnight in the town of Lukla, about 9,180 feet high, to acclimatize to the higher elevation. They then traveled to Syangboche — 12,800 feet high — where the group, bundled in thick jackets, windproof gear and woolen hats, took the helicopter to Kalapathar, a flat area next to Everest's base camp. The meeting lasted a mere 20 minutes before the government officials were swooped away to lower ground.
But they certainly got their point across, and provided a powerful message about the seriousness of global warming.Nepal's top politicians got their doctors OK, boarded a helicopter and strapped... more
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Hannah Fraser, along with sister Jasmine who both now work with activist father Andy Fraser, is seen swimming with giant whale pod, in support of 'climate change' awareness, in the new video for Fraser's worldwide free download "This is the Big One" -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63qIoGpnrl8&feature=channel
It seems Hannah may have bigger cahones than even her hot-blooded father, when it comes to issues she believes in. (She is featured swimming with 14 ft Great White sharks : release date 2010 - National Geographic special on sharks).
Andy Fraser, the reclusive icon from the 70's rock band FREE and writer of the monster anthems 'All Right Now' and Robert Palmer's 'Every Kinda people', who surfaced recently with his album "Naked... and finally free", a response to global media reports of his death from AIDS, confirms he is battling AIDS and has come to terms with being homosexual. After being married with two daughters, he has come out once again to not only proclaim he is very much alive, but intends to stay so, and catastrophic climate change doesn't help.
Fraser is standing with campaigns such as Avaaz.org, TckTckTck, Repower America, and Al Gore, to help promote the message of catastrophic climate change by releasing "This is the Big One", and in an unprecedented move to further the message, a link allows fans to forward the song to friends worldwide for FREE. http://www.andyfraser.com/bigone.html
"I love my car, electricity to power my studio and refrigerated food, but we need to find a better way, or we're all screwed. First of all we need to get a strong international agreement in Copenhagen come December 2009, but we must invest in alternative energies, and pull our heads out of the sand regarding the reality of the condition our planet is facing", said Fraser.
While putting the final touches on a new full length CD, "Andy Fraser.... on assignment", holding back the release of the long anticipated Concert footage, "Alive" with a mini-documentary, and discussing offers of a full length documentary of his life story, Fraser has felt this issue takes precedence and seems hot-headed enough to do something about it.
To further the message, Fraser is sponsering a video competion, to win ipods and an autographed Bass guitar from his personal collection.
http://www.andyfraser.com/MakeADifferenceNow/Hannah Fraser, along with sister Jasmine who both now work with activist father Andy... more
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Can we summon the people power of Berlin in 1989 and Seattle in 1999 to Copenhagen in 2009?
Next month, at the climate change summit in Copenhagen, the wealthy nations that produce most of the excess carbon in our atmosphere will almost certainly fail to embrace measures adequate to ward off the devastation of our planet by heat and chaotic weather. Their leaders will probably promise us teaspoons with which to put out the firestorm and insist that springing for fire hoses would be far too onerous a burden for business to bear. They have already backed off from any binding deals at this global summit. There will be a lot of wrangling about who should cut what when, and how, with a lot of nations claiming that they would act if others would act first. Activists—farmers, environmentalists, island-dwellers—around the world will try to write a different future, a bolder one, and if anniversaries are an omen, then they have history on their side.
A decade ago, and a decade before that, popular power turned the tide of history. November 30, 1999, was the day that activists shut down a World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Seattle and started to chart another course for the planet than the one that corporations and their servant nation-states had presumed they’d execute without impediment. Since then, events have strayed increasingly far from the WTO’s road map for global domination and the financial scenarios that captains of industry once liked to entertain.
Until that day when tens of thousands of protestors poured into the streets of Seattle (as well as other cities from Winnipeg to Athens, Limerick to Seoul), the might of the corporations made their agenda seem nothing short of inevitable—and then, suddenly, it wasn’t. Disrupted by demonstrators outside its door and, on the inside, by dissent from poor nations galvanized by the ruckus, the meeting collapsed in confusion. Today, the WTO is puny compared to its ambitions only a decade ago.
The mass civil disobedience in the streets was, in a way, an answer to another landmark day a decade earlier: November 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell and tens of thousands of Germans swarmed across the forbidden zone splitting their once and future capital city to celebrate, and eventually to reunite their nation. The fall of the Wall is now often remembered as if the gracious acquiescence of officialdom brought it about. It was not so.
“I announced the wall would open, but it was only the pressure by the people that made it possible” said Günter Schabowski, then-East German Communist Party central committee spokesperson, earlier this year. Had those East Germans not shown up and overwhelmed the guards at the Wall, nothing would have changed that night. In fact, popular will toppled several regimes that season. Thanks to creative civil-society organizing, steadfastness, astonishing courage, and imagination, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary also slipped out of the Soviet bloc and so out of a version of communism tantamount to totalitarianism as well.
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http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2009/11/learning-how-count-350Can we summon the people power of Berlin in 1989 and Seattle in 1999 to Copenhagen in... more
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The Copenhagen summit on climate change, expected in December, would be a historic opportunity to stop global warming, now that the United States under the Obama presidency have a much greater sensitivity than in previous years and even China seems ready to do something. The negotiations, however, proceed very slowly: in Barcelona have just finished the last preparatory meetings, with little results.
http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/nature/climatechange071109.htmlThe Copenhagen summit on climate change, expected in December, would be a historic... more
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The Orlando Brewing "Thrill the World" dancers danced in front of the number "350" written with chalk on the ground outside the organic brewery based in Orlando, Florida. "350," a number which represents what scientists say is the maximum allowable amount of CO2 in PPM has now been exceeded, and is currently about 390 PPM.
Exceeding 350 PPM means we are more likely to hit a catastrophic tipping point, according to many experts. 350.org wants to help make the world aware and pressure world leaders to ensure Copenhagen addresses climate change and greenhouse gases this December 2009.
Eco Factory offered 350 beers to the first 350 people to show up at 3:50 PM at Orlando Brewing. Everyone had a great time.
The Thrill the World event is a world record breaking attempt to have the most dancers dancing simultaneously around the world.The Orlando Brewing "Thrill the World" dancers danced in front of the number... more
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I was rather un-enthused by this event. I dont see how playing 350 MJ songs or drawing a big 350 in the sand is going to solve anything. Why didn't 350.org use their organizing power to manifest something real and effective, like 350 coal plant sit-ins?
I generally have a problem with partying for causes, especially when partying is the reason for the cause (if you want to consider the Industrial Revolution coupled with Capitalism a 250 year-long party, which I do).
Even if you participated in writing 350 letters to Congress. You think they read those things? If they dont even read the bills they slab their John Hancock on, how do you expect them to read letters from peons (i'm roleplaying) and the ignorant masses? I'd wager they dont read one single letter from a concerned citizen of their constituency, let alone 350 of them.
so, what's next? people know 'global warming', people know 'climate change', and now people have a vague idea of standard molecular ratios for the air they breathe. So when does the TV get turned off, or the cars traded in for bicycles?I was rather un-enthused by this event. I dont see how playing 350 MJ songs or drawing... more
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On October 24, 2009, at over 5200 events in 181 countries, people came together to make their voices heard to put the world on track to a safe, sustainable future. Here are some quick highlights from three major events in Berlin, Germany. More info at www.350.orgOn October 24, 2009, at over 5200 events in 181 countries, people came together to... more
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Activists held events around the world to increase knowledge and gain support for the # 350.
The number 350 ... as in parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which scientist say is the safe upper limit.
The atmosphere currently reaches about 390 parts per million, according to research by NASA climate scientist James Hanse cited by 350.org.
This is a statistical point that normal everyday people can understand and rally behind..
This is most likely to increase public attention in the months prior to the summit to be held in Copenhagen in Dec. .Activists held events around the world to increase knowledge and gain support for the... more
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The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is measured in parts per million. Before the Industrial Revolution, before men began greater coal burning, destruction of forests and use of oil, the concentration was 280 parts per million by volume. We are now at 387. The Kyoto Protocol provided not to exceed 450 parts per million. But it is only a maximum level to avoid the catastrophe, not a disaster.The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is measured in parts per... more
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