The Sierra Club, in partnership with green blogs EarthFirst and Ecorazzi are hosting hundreds of house parties across America on Thursday, July 17 to help send the message that to really solve global warming, we need to change more than lightbulbs — we need to change our leadership. Look for a house party near you at LightbulbstoLeadership.org or sign up to host your own. The Sierra Club will provide you with a step-by-step House Party Guide and other materials that will help you plan a successful and fun event.
Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore says there is no proof global warming is caused by humans, but it is likely enough that the world should turn to nuclear power - a concept tied closely to the underground nuclear testing his former environmental group formed to oppose.The chemistry of the atmosphere is changing, and there is a high-enough risk that “true believers” like Al Gore are right that world economies need to wean themselves off fossil fuels to reduce greenhouse gases, he said.
“It’s like buying fire insurance,” Moore said. “We all own fire insurance even though there is a low risk we are going to get into an accident.” Read the rest of this entry »
I though I would liven this post up a bit. Tricia Walsh Smith decided to make a video about her divorce and what is going on through her daily life…it must be nice to have that much money.
Talk about a civics lesson: A high-school senior has raised questions about political bias in a popular textbook on U.S. government, and legal scholars and top scientists say the teen’s criticism is well-founded.They say “American Government” by conservatives James Wilson and John Dilulio presents a skewed view of topics from global warming to separation of church and state. The publisher now says it will review the book, as will the College Board, which oversees college-level Advanced Placement courses used in high schools.
Student Matthew LaClair of Kearny, N.J., recently brought his concerns to the attention of the Center for Inquiry, an Amherst, N.Y., think tank that promotes science and which has issued a scathing report about the textbook.
“I just realized from my own knowledge that some of this stuff in the book is just plain wrong,” said LaClair, who is using the book as part of an AP government class at Kearny High School. Read the rest of this entry »
On March 10, Environment Minister John Baird released detailed regulations to address global warming. These so-called tough measures lean heavily on new technology that captures and stores greenhouse gas emissions. Mr. Baird says catching carbon emitted from coal-fired power plants and tar-sands projects, then burying it deep underground, is a large part of Canada meeting its greenhouse gas emissions targets for 2020 and 2050.This is unlikely. Even if we set aside the fact that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government has set new, weaker goals so that Canada is no longer holds up its share of the Kyoto agreement, the sorry truth is that carbon capture and storage is a kind of fool’s gold — all glitter and promise, but of no real worth. It won’t enable us to meet even these weaker commitments, and it will be an expensive, diversionary tactic while Canada climbs the carbon charts.
Simply put, taking the carbon dioxide out of emissions (from a power plant or installation), and finding a safe place to tuck it away permanently isn’t easy, isn’t cheap and isn’t going to happen in time to save the climate. There are problems with the technology that no one has been able to solve on an industrial scale. Enormous amounts of money will have to be spent just to try and make it work. It really does look like the proverbial bottomless pit. Read the rest of this entry »
Here at PerfectTemp.org, we believe that the average person needs to have a voice about Global Warming and Going Green and that voice needs to be heard. So, to help encourage your voices and typing skills to come be heard at our site, we are going to begin with giving away some goodies with a ‘Green’ theme. Every month the goodies will change, so starting in April will be giving away 10 sets of the highest rated Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs as rated by Consumer Reports: the75 Watt N:Vision Soft White. You can see Consumer Reports test results here. Here’s the catch, to qualify for the CFL bulbs and the $100, you need to register as a member of this blog and be one of the top 10 contributors for the month of April. You can leave comments or you can even show off your talents and become and approved contributor and have your blog entry seen by people from around the world.
Now, I am guessing that you have taken notice to the possibility of winning cash as well (didn’t I say these prizes would have a ‘Green’ theme?). This is probably the simplest part of this contest and your fellow peers will hold your fate in their hands. Easy enough, at the end of April, a poll will be placed on this blog of all the entries. Top entry as voted by your peers wins $100 cash…and by cash, I mean a VISA prepaid card.
Just remember that the owners and operators of PerfectTemp.org will have final say so over everything. That is just part of our God like complex, so type early and type often!
Finally, several informed authorities are saying what so many around the country have been saying: This Global Warming thing is looking more like a cult and a movement than a scientific debate and possibility. Women are aborting their babies because they see further populating the planet as an act of egotism in the face of our frail planet. Others are suggesting placing a tax on babies to cover the amount of harm they will inflict on the environment during the course of their lives. And how will the money cover that?
This Global Warming topic is a very interesting and often times heated one. Most people enjoy talking about the possibilities of global warming and some of the things believed to be associated with it. Nevertheless, there are those who are fanatical in defense that it truly exists and that it is a man made calamity.
As many theories exist to back-up global warming claims, there are just as many facts that disclaim the outright lies and contradictions stated by its clerics. Recently we experienced the 54th coolest winter since national records began in 1895.
The average temperature across both the contiguous U.S. and the globe during climatological winter (December 2007-February 2008) was the coolest since 2001, according to scientists at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.”
And just last week, Weather Channel founder John Coleman suggested to Foxnews that we should sue Global Warming fanatics for fraud.
Since we can’t get a debate, I thought perhaps if we had a legal challenge and went into a court of law, where it was our scientists and their scientists, and all the legal proceedings with the discovery and all their documents from both sides and scientific testimony from both sides, we could finally get a good solid debate on the issue,” Coleman said. “I’m confident that the advocates of ‘no significant effect from carbon dioxide’ would win the case.”
“As you look at the atmosphere over the last 25 years, there’s been perhaps a degree of warming, perhaps probably a whole lot less than that, and the last year has been so cold that that’s been erased,” he said.
So the cat is out of the bag so to speak by a lot of people whose opinions I value more than Al Gore, Brad Pitt, Sherryl Crow and Leonardo DiCapprio’s combined. Read the rest of this entry »
A BBC news report from last year (Climate Sceptisim: The Top 10) gives counter arguments to popular skeptic beliefs. The statements that were countered:
1. Evidence that the earth’s temperature is getting warmer is unclear.
2. If the average temperature was rising, it has now stopped.
3. The earth has been warmer in the recent past.
4. Computer models are not reliable.
5. The atmosphere is not behaving as models would predict.
6. Climate is mainly influenced by the sun.
7. A carbon dioxide rise has always come after a temperature increase, not before
8. Long-term data on hurricane and arctic ice is too poor to assess trends
9. Water vapor is the major greenhouse gas; CO2 is relatively unimportant.
10. Problems such as HIV/Aids and poverty are more pressing than climate change.
It was an interesting read for me since I haven’t followed the topic of global warming as closely as Brett has, but the information is certainly more of an overview than an advanced course.
I learned on thing that I definitely did not know before–that the British spell sceptic with a c, not a k. Who knew?
What if the Earth could talk? What would it have to say about
global warming? “I’ll be absolutely fine,” is what, according to satirical British news website The Daily Mash.In a brief ‘interview’, Earth, (age: 4,000,000,000; location: 93 million miles from the Sun), tells the website that humans seem to be confusing the health of the planet with the survival of their own species.
“I might get a bit warmer and a bit wetter, but to be honest, that actually sounds quite nice,” the planet says in one of the few quotes that are in language moderate enough to be repeated on a Reuters blog.
Before rushing off to do some more orbiting, the busy planet told The Daily Mash that environmental campaigners should drop trying to ‘Save the Planet’ and adopt a more apt slogan such as ‘Save Your Sorry Arse’.
The lighthearted article makes a similar point to one made in “The World Without Us” by U.S. journalist Alan Weisman, which imagines what would happen to the Earth if the human race were wiped out - in a few more words, he concludes, it would indeed get along just fine.
A large majority of people in New York believe that global warming is happening because of human activities, and more than two-thirds think that parts of the city will even have to be abandoned over the next 50 years because of rising sea levels, according to survey results released this morning by Columbia and Yale Universities, which called the research the first comprehensive study of opinions from residents of the five boroughs about global warming.
Among the important findings of the survey:
78 percent of New Yorkers were convinced that global warming is happening, and of that number, 82 percent believed that climate change is caused mainly by human activities or caused equally by humans and natural changes.
69 percent said it was likely that parts of New York City would need to be abandoned because of rising sea levels over the next 50 years.
60 percent said they were personally worried about global warming.
30 percent believed dangerous effects of global warming were imminent within the next 10 years.
22 percent believed that global warming has already had dangerous effects on the city.
Large majorities of New Yorkers said that global warming would cause more heat waves (85 percent); energy blackouts (79 percent); worse storms, hurricanes and tornadoes (79 percent); increased rates of disease (72 percent); and flooding of subways, tunnels and airports (70 percent). Read the rest of this entry »
