Global warming, climate change, activism
Posted in Activism, Housekeeping on Apr 25th, 2010
If anyone’s still reading, it should be obvious that I’ve been on hiatus. I’ll give you the short version: I’m spending every spare second I can find on finishing a young adult novel that’s been rattling around in my brain for three years. I’ve recently launched a web site to talk about the craft of [...]
Posted in Activism, Ain't Easy Being Green, Inspiration on Dec 3rd, 2009
I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. Edward Everett Hale Author and Unitarian Minister
Posted in Activism, Ain't Easy Being Green, Astroturfing, Climate Change Science, UK on Dec 2nd, 2009
Most people who follow the climate debate — and many who do not — will have heard about the so-called Climategate. In a nutshell, hackers stole 13 years of emails from leading climate scientists at Hadley Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the UK’s University of East Anglia, and published them on the web for all [...]
Stephen Harper, and Jim Prentice, we’re waiting. Where are you?
Posted in Activism, Climate Change Solutions on Oct 15th, 2009
Climate change isn’t only about carbon dioxide. So that’s why, in a world that is stepping close to a steep precipice, doing more to reduce non-CO2 climate change contributors such as black carbon, tropospheric ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), as well as expanding bio-sequestration through biochar production, might head global warming off at the pass, according [...]
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is working to pass the Kerry-Boxer climate bill, understanding that America’s future depends upon it. I’ve sent him the following letter. I urge all people who care about future generations to write a letter of thanks. Senator Graham: Your bipartisan work on the climate bill will be remembered by historians [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate Change Science, Politics, Social Justice on Sep 29th, 2009
Just days after Rasmussen reported that 47 percent of U.S. citizens suggested that it was OK to put the economy before climate change concerns, one of the key advisors to the German government suggested that North Americans know less about climate change than just about anyone else in the world. Professor John Schellnhuber, of the [...]
Posted in Activism, Canada, Politics, Progressive Coalition on Sep 24th, 2009
More than 100 of world’s leaders met this week in New York at the United Nations Climate Conference. And where is Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper? He didn’t attend, preferring to meet New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a coffee shop. He just sauntered in to the UN in time for dinner. For the sake [...]
Would we be doing more to save the planet from global warming if we had better phrasing? Jonathan Watts asks that question at The Guardian when he notes that the only time that governments have been able to overcome their pettiness was when scientists warned about an unexpected “hole in the ozone layer.” It seemed [...]
“SPECIAL EDITION” NEW YORK POST from The Yes Men on Vimeo. Read the article about the Yes Men Campaign. Editor’s Note: About two minutes in: How does anyone get to be the publisher of Post with absolutely no understanding of science or media manipulation through astroturfing?