climate
delay delay delay. message to world leaders: we've already delayed too much!!
1 FaverShareViewed: 3 TimesQuoted: Among the chief barriers to a comprehensive deal in Copenhagen was Congress’s inability to enact climate and energy legislation that sets binding targets on greenhouse gases in the U.S. Without such a commitment, other nations are loath to make their own pledges.
2 FaversShareViewed: 3 TimesQuoted: The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic – and worrying – examples of the impact of global warming on the planet. Scientists say the ice at 90 degrees north may well have melted away by the summer.
we have a brand new website here at Washington Conservation Voters! This is the project that has been consuming many of my hours for the past couple months. Check it out :-)
2 FaversShareViewed: 4 Times1 FaverShareViewed: 6 TimesQuoted: Some 220 square miles of ice has collapsed in Antarctica and an ice shelf about the size of Connecticut is "hanging by a thread," the British Antarctic Survey said Tuesday, blaming global warming.
good article and a good start to the climate justice discussion.
1 FaverShareViewed: 3 TimesQuoted: Randy Poplock, guest columnist: In the Pacific Northwest, climate justice must be considered in policy decisions and public dialogue. Every environmental issue poses a social justice concern, and climate change is no exception.
2 FaversShareViewed: 1 TimeQuoted: VALENCIA, Spain: The blunt and alarming final report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released here by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, may well underplay the problem of climate change, many experts and even the report's authors admit.
1 FaverShareViewed: 6 TimesQuoted: By one estimate, about a tenth of this warming planet’s population lives near a coast at an elevation of less than 10 meters. That’s 600 million people who need someone to keep a sharp set of eyes trained on the earth’s poles, where ice melting into the oceans could put their homes at risk. Stanford electrical engineers Howard Zebker and Shadi Oveisgharan are developing precisely such a sentry for detecting changes in polar ice masses.
click to playQuoted: Within the fence area, scientists have observed a strange phenomenon: above the native vegetation, the sky is rich in rain-producing clouds. But the sky on the farmland side is clear.
This is fascinating. A team of researchers led by Udaysankar Nair and Tom Lyons have proposed three possible explanations.
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delay delay delay. message to world leaders: we've already delayed too much!!
1 FaverViewed: 3 TimesQuoted: Among the chief barriers to a comprehensive deal in Copenhagen was Congress’s inability to enact climate and energy legislation that sets binding targets on greenhouse gases in the U.S. Without such a commitment, other nations are loath to make their own pledges.
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