Hundreds of thousands of people around the world turned out for last Saturday’s International Day of Climate Action. The global climate event was organized by 350.org. Grist caught up with 350’s founder, writer Bill McKibben, in New York’s Times Square. McKibben talked about the event, the worldwide turnout and what it may all mean for the upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen this December.
stop your whining and do something!
Bill McKibben on International Climate Action Day 0
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Posted 11:00 AM on 26 Oct 2009
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EcoReason Posted 12:17 pm
26 Oct 2009
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Delay And Deny Posted 2:00 pm
26 Oct 2009
It's getting cooler every month.
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megaloptera Posted 5:07 am
27 Oct 2009
350.org needs to take immediate action against Congress' plans for false solutions to climate change, such as the Kerry Boxer Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, now moving through the U.S. Senate. This is an energy bill, more drill baby drill. It is a false solution to climate change and unless 350.org takes a stand against it, 350.org will be complicit in the destruction of the planet that will be caused by this bill.
Among the many false solutions in CEJAPA is "biomass burning" - billions of dollars for incinerating trash, tires, forests, and landfill gas under the guise of "clean energy." Biomass burning emits 1.5 to 3.2 times as much CO2 as coal and according to DOE, will emit 11-14% of total U.S. emissions by 2020.
Step it up, Mr. McKibben. Congress is going to act on this bill within the next few weeks, and 350.org needs to oppose it.
www.climatesos.org
www.nobiomassburning.org
www.stopspewingcarbon.org
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amazingdrx Posted 8:09 am
27 Oct 2009
Consider this: just plugging the leaking natural gas, equal to 250 million cars in GHG effect, from the oil and gas industry wells, refineries, and pipelines, is too difficult a task. Even though the gas that's leaking is worth 20 billion per year.
Imagine an army of inspectors and repair crews spreading out across the globe to get this done. 20 billion per year in savings aren't enough to get it done?
How about a trillion per year in efficiency improvements? Can't do that either. What strange creatures we are.
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