Rated • 3 reviews • politics, global warming • csmonitor.com
From the page: "Some who discount humans' role in altering Earth's climate point to the 'global-cooling' scare of the 1970s."
Rated • 1 review • environment, global warming, politics • time.com
From the page: "Climate scientists are obsessed with finding tipping points, the levels at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable. For environmentalists, 2007 is likely to be remembered as the tipping point when public understanding of the existential threat of climate change reached a critical mass. If that's true, no one will deserve more credit than Al Gore, who was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize today along with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Gore spoke about the threat of the greenhouse effect as a senator in the 1980s, when it was just emerging from the thicket of scientific literature, and after losing the Presidency in 2000 he crisscrossed the globe, laptop in hand, to bring a warning to tycoons, politicians and ordinary citizens alike. The Nobel citation from the Norwegian committee says it all: "He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted."
Congratulations, Al!! Next... run for President!! We could use a president with solid environmental awareness, willing to walk the talk.
Rated • 1 review • photography, trees • flickr.com
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Rated • 0 reviews • bird watching, birds, china, conservation • google.com
Rated • 1 review • books, global warming • postcarbon.org
From the page: "There's a new entrant into the long and twisted struggle to prevent the people of the world from fully appreciating and acting on the threat of global warming: a book by Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg called Cool It: A Skeptical Environmentalist Looks at Global Warming.
On this webpage, we seek your help in building a thorough archive of the book's factual distortions, misquotations, and misleading arguments. The book is already a big seller in the U.S., so there is every reason to push back hard against the insidious and distorting impact it will have on the prospects for taking strong, immediate steps to stop global warming."
Rated • 1 review • alternative energy, politics, global warming • sierraclub.org
From the page: "Congress: Flip the Switch! Bring America's New Energy Future to Life
This fall, Congress can make real progress putting America on the path to energy independence, constructing a clean energy future, and cutting global-warming gases.
All the pieces are there. Congress just needs to flip the switch and pass a final energy bill that combines the best of the House and Senate energy bills -- one that raises fuel-economy standards to 35 miles per gallon and requires that 15 percent of our electricity be generated by wind, solar, or other renewable power.
But Congress won't flip the switch, stand up to Big Energy, or seize this opportunity to make real progress -- unless we push them."
Write your representatives, use the convenient form provided by the Sierra Club.
Rated • 0 reviews • health, politics • nytimes.com
Rated • 1 review • ethics, politics, human rights • cbsnews.com
From the page: " The U.S. tortures prisoners in violation of international law, former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday, adding that President Bush makes up his own definition of torture.
"Our country, for the first time in my lifetime, has abandoned the basic principle of human rights," Mr. Carter said on CNN. "We've said that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to those people in Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo, and we've said we can torture prisoners and deprive them of an accusation of a crime..."
Rated • 1 review • photography • flickr.com
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