Two months ago, we invited you to take action by hosting a presentation in your community. The response we received was phenomenal. Over 1,800 leaders across the globe (and counting!) have requested a Climate Reality presentation. We’ve received requests from 93 countries, all 50 U.S. states and Puerto Rico, and over 1,083 cities across the globe. Your voice is helping us reach thousands.
We’ve created this infographic to show the world that we are active around the globe, helping people learn about the climate crisis and move toward real solutions. What does this show? It shows that while progress on the world stage may be slow, people like you are sharing the truth about climate change and demanding action.
We want to say thank you, and offer our congratulations to all of you who spoke up and requested a presentation. By hosting these presentations, you’re helping us build the climate movement worldwide. As we grow, so does our power to demand action.
For the next week and a half, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will meet for the 17th Conference of Parties in Durban, South Africa. The outcome of this conference will be hotly debated. But the reality is thousands of leaders like you are educating and engaging members of their communities about climate change. That is not up for debate. We are showing the world, and our leaders, that we are not hiding from the reality we face.
JM
November 30th
And when COP17 gives us nothing, then what? If so many people are being reached wyare we in the same place?
We need caps on greenhouse gases that do not strip indigenous and poor people of their cultures, traditions and livelihoods and give them local control of their forests. No REDD mechanism will accomplish what needs to be done now. It needs to be taxed at the source to spur transition, sustainability and responsibility. We need caps that are offset by sustainable agricultural practices, reforestation, agroecology, CO2 sequestration in soil that can remove up to 40% of emissions from our atmosphere and to preserve biodiversity plus a massive move to renewable energy sources.
There are currently more developing nations doing this than rich ones. Where the hell is their moral center? Do they have one? Obviously not. We need to hold polluters accountable through a revenue neutral carbon tax and or the financial markets to a financial transaction tax (and yes again I know try passing that here) that makes up for them using our commons as a sewer and use those funds to bring about the energy transition necessary to stave off catastrophe.
We need all countries to participate in this, even if those binding caps are tied to their GDP instead of the same across the board or even if developing nations that do not only participate in sequestration and reforestation. Those countries that are not polluting but experiencing the effects more pronounced should not have to pay the same as the large polluters! However, those countries like the U.S. and now China which has surpassed the U.S. emissions wise (and yes I know that in part is due to them manufacturing the crap we buy here) should stop acting like children and playing politics and be responsible for what they have and continue to put up in the atmosphere. Personally, I think the retiscense doesn’t just stem from politics or ideology, but from the fact that so many cannot admit their own culpability in this. Well, the Arctic isn’t going to wait for you any longer and people are dying now.
How will these presentations secure that now?
Paul E hughes
November 30th
Hi, I would be glad to help and teach/educate/facillitate Climate Change information sessions if you need help. I have taught and designed University classes on RE and EE topics related to climate change and building a green economy to combat it. I am BPI Energy Audit trained as well as over 14 years in the solar development and construction business.
Pat
November 30th
JM you have just blown my mind….your right we shouldnt let people mess up the world, the fact is that this is our world and we should take care of it…not destroy it..I believe people in politics are just cowards and shouldnt have power to say whether or not they can chop dowon trees for economical means. We should step up and not let this problem get any worse. We can either do it peacefully or the hard way. Truthfully the peacefull way will take too much time. And there wot be much time left if we keep delaying the solution. People won’t change completely from silly PowerPoint presentations, we need a revolution, we need a change in this world.
ANDRES RIVERA
December 1st
Our civilian population in Puertro Rico is in deed eager to learn more about this alarming global matter that is affecting us. I am willing to provide assistance in the disemination of educational matterial.
Diane Melanson
December 1st
I recently took a course in enviromental studies. I would love to lease my granddaughter a better earth, and all the grandchildren of the world.
Robert L. McEwen
December 1st
Would it be possible for you to sue for equal time and go on mass media to counter the views/opinions expressed by so many right-wing politicians that climate change is not linked to human activity? If you could present some of the most convincing data in a one to two minute sound bite, it would change a good deal of the political debate, in my opinion.
Larry L. Brown
December 1st
This should be a “no-brainer”. Sadly, the Repubs. in Congress are “no-brainers”. The politicians on the right are intent in debunking any real science that conflicts with their “neanderthal”, knuckle-dragging beliefs. I am embarrassed that these anti-science thugs have so much power. Apparently, they do not give a damn about the world they will leave to their descendants. It is more important for them to protect the fossil fuel industry than to protect our planet. I’m 68 and will not see the damage unchecked climate change does, but I really care and thus am very frustrated and angry.
Frank Gomez
December 1st
I hope I am doing my part. I have been giving away free hybrid poplar cuttings to anyone who requests them since last year. We will make this country green yet! Unfortunately I can do that only in the US,
george costanza
December 1st
Andres, I lived in PR and it was beautiful. I have friends who are Puerto Rican and say it is kind of a dumping ground there now.
I used to hike rain forests and swim with manatees, and couldn’t believe it when I saw puerto rican people spearing reef fish for dinner and a lot of trash.
right now there is a far right governor in PR who is literally stripping all protections for workers and students, which is hardly covered at all in the US,
If you live in PR now, get the word out that thousands of students are demonstrating as tuition rates are hiked.
I mean I literally thought all of PR was beautiful. coffee plantations to tropical forest to beaches to scuba diving to glowing phosphorescent waters.
this is what all americans should be protecting.
I at least have my memories..what do people have today when they only care about the latest chinese junk mfg. by a 10 yr old in a toxic factory?
to me, with all of my life experiences, the extreme shallowness in the US is very mind-boggling.
I am pretty young but I have seen a lot of good and bad. there is no way to justify most of what US is doing anywhere around the planet and I cannot even begin to understand what denialists are thinking, driving giant suvs to mao mart. etc.
when I lived in PR, there were armed guards in watch towers in mao mart parking lot with ak 47s. that was also mind boggling in a bad way, that evolved humans have stooped to this level that you have to be monitored by armed guards buying cheap chinese junk. there has to be a MASSIVE paradigm shift…or things will get crappier and crappier. imho based on my experiences. I have also been to small cities and resort on honeymoon which do not exist now due to record mudslides from record rainfall from record warming and record moisture in the air.
if obama wants super rich to pay more taxes since current super low tax rates for super rich were by design temporary, or to continue current payroll tax cuts there are 10,000 comments.
on this re: climate which is destroying the planet, where I live on three sides is devastation right now from flooding, had hurricane one week tropical storm the next and then freak snowstorm which melted the next day when temps warmed 40 degrees. and I am NOT anywhere near the tropics!!!! there are incl. this comment FIVE comments!!!! says a lot about human apathy and how it will always be ‘somebody else’ to deal with it or fix it etc. which is sad.
Carl G. Looney
December 1st
The IPCC has faked the data and supressed all scientific opinions that do not match their own, which is that CO2 is causing global warming. Global warming happens about every 100,000 years even when CO2 levels are much lower than now, so it is NOT the CO2. The cycles of the Sun, the tilt of the Earth, and warmed ocean water are the main climate drivers. 20,000 years ago the Earth’s tilt was headed for its maximum, so the glaciers began melting. Now the Earth’s tilt is headed near medium and its change toward the maximum is increasing. WHAT WILL THIS DO? It will put less radiation on the polar, and nearby parts of the temperate, zones due to less tilt (colder weather), and MORE radiation on the equatorial zone and its nearby temperate zones (hotter weather). This will cause greater differences in temperature across the latitudes of Earth, cause greater winds and floods (more evaporation in equatorial oceans and more cooling in temperate zones for more snow and floods). Get used to it. IT IS COMING! If you live farther North in the US or Europe, move farther South while you can. Strangely, THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MAN-MADE OR OTHER CO2, which is insignificant in causing warming or cooling on Earth (388 parts per million versus 22,000 ppm for water wapor [the real greenhouse gas], and the oceans, whose enormous volumes of water collect essentially all the heat collected on Earth). The Sun’s radiation is by far mostly in the visible light range and light is absorbed by water as is almost all of the infrared. CO2 only absorbs a very small micron band of infrared. It is insignificant, except that we need more CO2 for photosynthesis, the basis of the food chain (there would be no life on Earth without CO2). The eco-profiteers and IPCC would make us all poorer and colder by controlling the fuel we burn and taxing “carbon” credits. This can not change the climate a single micro-iota! Get real and replace your religious-like zeal with scientific knowledge.
gary hoesing
December 1st
We, the USA, are the cleanest country in terms of output versus pollution. Almost all the data that was put out there about global warming and man’s contribution to climate change has been doctored and minimized. Unless you can come up with some REAL data, as far as I’m concerned this bandwagon has stopped and it’s time you got off it. I’m not saying we don’t have to be good stewards of the environment we live in, but it is time we point our fingers at the countries that are the real poluters and make them clean up their act at their expense. We cannot afford to be the keepers of the world in this respect
all this carbon credit BS is nothing but a money maker for the ones selling the credits…….
get real
William Craig
December 1st
Climate change is an issue, however, no one thus far has spoken up as to what major factor is causing this change. More than 7 Billion (7,000,000,000) people now dwell on this beautiful blue planet and everyone needs food, clean water, housing, etc. If the world population continues to rise at current rates then in 10 years more than 12 Billion will need these things. Why does no one speak out about the real cause behind climate change? If this problem is not addressed and soon then mother earth will resolve the issue on its own.
Alex Carlin
December 1st
JM makes some great points! But the main thing is this: we already have all the clean energy know-how that we need to stop burning coal very quickly. Only 100 miles by 100 miles of low-tech Solar Thermal Power mirrors would supply all US electric grid needs. Same for China, India, Europe (via the Sahara). Add in all that Solar PV and Wind and we are there in 5 years. Whats blocking the solution? Its that Wall Street/Corporate system that can’t handle the transition. How do we break through? Lets make the demand to stop burning coal the next big demand for the Occupy Wall Street movement. You can’t occupy Wall Street when its under water from sea level rise. If we burn that coal we melt the South Pole by 2100!
Jessee McBroom
December 1st
I firmly believe that the matter of Global Warming and Climate Change can be remedied. I am awaiting reply from Columbia Universiy and their Center For Climate Systems Research on a strategy to do so. If a Principle Member of the Climate Reality Project wishes to contact me they may do so via the email used to sumit this comment.
Joseph L.Goldman
December 1st
I believe you are on the right track, disseminating Climate Change information, and offering to bring information to requesting communities. I would caution that you choose presenters who have engaged in the research, are scientifically trained and that recognize the need to convey the fundamental understanding of balance in nature, whether it is of the atmosphere, the oceans or the biome. I was first involved in Climate Modification research in the ’70s and have found equilibrium to be most difficult for the non-physical science public to comprehend.
heather mason
December 1st
On a good day I think, look how far we have come! Cars are more efficient, people recycle, the local food movement is gaining momentum etc. Then, some days I think, none of this will ever be enough. We have polluted too much, the majority is too greedy, short sighted and self absorbed to make the huge sweeping fundamental changes that it would really take to make a difference, and even if we did make those changes…is it already too late?
Hal Trafford
December 1st
As a painter of Fine Art I appreciate the beauty that I see when I’m outdoors enjoying the beauty of color that this planet gave to all of us. We need to protect it and do everything we can to preserve it in every way. Conserve and don’t destroy what God has given us.
Ron Hayden
December 1st
It is time to face up to the fact that the earth “as we know it” is on the verge irreversible catastrophic climate change. If we did just one thing, we might have a chance of limiting the damage that is caused by excessive greenhouse gases. That one thing is to stop the contruction of new coal fired power plants and to begin the sytematic dismantling of exising coal fired power plants. Coal contributes more than 40% of the excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This is a relatively small industry. About $50 billion valuation. There are about +/- 500 coal fired power plants in the US. If we nationalized the coal industry, paid the owners fair market value and begin a systematic shutdown of coal plants we might have a chance of saving future generations. Coal contributes about 48% of our electric power in the US. That means that we need to excellerate the construction of alternative energy plants such as solar, wind, geothermal and nuclear. The energy we get from coal will need to be replaced by non-polluting sources. We have the technology available. What is missing is political leadership. It will be costly. It will be time consuming and we don’t have much time left. Our life styles will change and we will have to sacrifice. Or as the guy says, you can pay me now, or you can pay me later. Later will be a lot more costly. (Costly in blood and treasure)The alternative of continuing business as usual is un thinkable. 5 to 7 degrees of additional heating of the planet will in effect, destroy our world as we know it. We owe it to our children, grandchildren and future generations to make the sacrifices now to save the planet from catastrophic irreversible runaway global warming.
Fletcher Bistle
December 1st
It is unfortunate that so much organized effort is not being directed to *real* problems, such as population, food, water and the management of the resources of the planet. ‘Climate change’ has become an emotional and religious movement that feeds off of two natural human traits: the positive response to “saving the planet” and the tendency to believe in, and be fascinated by, catastrophic events. Human society should of course take care of our common environment and ecosystem. We should of course practice energy conservation and find more efficient ways to produce energy and apply it to productive tasks. Saddling the economies of countries with repressive costs in an attempt to try to control climate is a misguided alarmist campaign that addresses a minuscule fraction of the factors affecting climate, and sadly will have no impact save that for wasting massive amounts of time and money that could be more productively applied in efforts that will in fact improve the conditions of human life on the planet.
John M Petro
December 1st
There are two kinds of people in the world. One out of every six people is an interdependent thinker who sees connections between themselves and everyone and everything else in the world, like Al Gore. Five out of every six people is an independent thinker who sees no connection between themselves and everyone and everything else in the world. Interdependent thinkers see independent thinkers as destroyers of their world. Independent thinkers see interdependent thinkers as destroyers of their freedom, their ability to do what they want when they want. Five out every six people will continue to increase human made global warming until living conditions on Earth become so difficult that only people cooperating in groups, interdependent thinkers, will be able go survive. When this hsppens over population will also no longer be a problem.
Ray Humiston
December 1st
How many conferences in So. AZ? Ray
SMarshall
December 1st
There would be plenty of food and water for everybody, if more people either significantly reduce their meat consumption or completely eliminate it. So many of our environmental woes are caused by the polluting and abusive ways of agribusinesses. Education and presentation might help to illuminate the truth to unaware people.
Saul
December 1st
We need to act now to avoid health’s problems, our climate changes came from us, therefore, we have to take ownership to fix it.
Ann marie cuellar
December 1st
Congratulation for the great job all of you are doing to take care our mother of nature etc.
Greg Pearl
December 1st
Mr. Craig , you are correct. Global environmental problems are directly related to the increased consumption of our ever increasing population on our planet. However, even though China reduced it’s population growth, their carbon footprint continues to grow exponentially as everyone there aspires to consume more. Our world could benefit immediately if every intelligent alpha consumer in the developed world would reject the bombardment of marketing pressure and eat less meat, buy less new goods, drive less and fly less. Consciously controlling our own appetite for carbon to live as examples to our communities and educate others as to why we have taken this path.
Lou Rosenberg
December 1st
Bottom line is everyone living on this planet must now take responsibility. Groups of like minded people CAN and WILL effect change in not only awareness but in action. Groups like OWS are helping bring awareness of the greed and corporate plundering which is hindering
progress on real climate change.
Kevin Aubie
December 1st
On behalf of my country, Canada, a once proud nation, I would like to apologize to the world for our abysmal record on climate change action. Our current government, owned and operated by big oil & gas, rose to a pseudo majority with only 40% of the vote in our last election, mainly through the financial aid of Big oil & gas.
Stephen Harper is an extremely arrogant science denying facist pig and is NOT supported by the majority of Canadians. The oil and gas propaganda in our country is ubiquitous and has been very effective at deceiving many innocent Canadians and of course the minds of many have been bought with high paying tar sands jobs.
But please be aware that many Canadians are not fooled and work every day against the oil & gas mafia, corrupt politicians and the cheerleaders of ignorance.
At 47, for the first time in my life, I am truly ashamed to be Canadian, but please don’t think that many Canadians do support your work. We are currently losing this battle and will probably continue to do so until we can get King Harper out of office, although he is already altering Canadian election laws to ensure his continued grip on power. He is an evil unethical tyrant that the majority of Canadians absolutely despise.
To me, he and his minions are about as un-Canadian as can be. What other conclusion could one come to about a prime minister who is a cheerleader for the continued sale of asbestos around the world. He simply doesn’t care about peoples lives and caters only to his corporate buddies.
Stephen Harper is an absolute disgrace to our country.
Elaine Jones
December 1st
I am in a university biology class that focuses on the environment and the ecology of the planet. We are headed toward another extinction. There have been five in the past and we are living through the sixth. The previous five have been caused by asteroids, volcanic eruptions and other natural causes. The sixth extinction will be caused by humans and human activity. We all need to wake up and start doing something about it. For one thing, there are too many people on earth and most will starve because the land and the oceans will not support the 7 billion-and-growing people on earth. We do need to find alternative sources of energy but we also need to voluntarily do something about the birth rate. In the past it was laudable to have many children, but today’s demands are different. In other words, this must be a coordinated effort through many different disciplines if we want to save the earth. It is a lovely, blue planet.
Manuel H. Conejeros
December 1st
I’m american citizens and I born in Chile, Southamerica, where the politicians and the govern wants to build about 7 electrical thermo plants working with charcoal. The country is full in contaminants and in use with charcoal for calefactors, they have They want to use charcoal from a native charcoal mine from a natural island ubicated to the very South of Chile named Riesco Island where that industry will be contaminated the wild enviromental, and the people is fighting against two project. Next year, in January 2012 I’ll travel to Chile and I ‘ll programate a big conference in this point.
Please put in mind my petitions and answer me. I have experience in to do the event including inernational events (Peru, Argentine, Bolivia, Uruguay and Paragay countries)
My regards.
Marilyn Closterman
December 1st
Seems for every action, there’s a reaction. You do something, someone else does just the opposite. You stop eating meat, the new rich eat more. You decide to have fewer offspring, others feel it’s their duty to have more.
How do you change or influence people whose beliefs are opposite yours?
david g evans
December 1st
In a book written since retiring from NASA as a chief engineer, 3 of the chapters concern a review the pub-lished literature on our future climate and environ-ment. It wasn’t written for publishing, but for my own distribution, allowing for more freedom of expressing opinions on the work of others, and then making sug-gestions on it.
Tim Dolan
December 1st
This is all great stuff but….
Does anyone happen to know where to get a sustainable supply of CO2 free, non radioactive, non toxic energy today?
Daniel K Shelton
December 1st
We cannot continue to pollute our planet and think we will have a place that will support life of any kind! So much has already been destroyed in the name of big business and fast and easy bucks. You can save our planet and still be very succesful in business. If we all did just one act of conserving energy or cleaning a spot in our own neighborhood just think how much greener our plant would be. I love nature and life of all kinds and hope we show people what a wonder place we have to live and lets bring it back to our childhood beauty for future generations
george drake
December 1st
Following on Mr. Craig’s comments:
World population is absolutely the crucial issue. The power of exponential growth overwhelms every solution we put forward, or even accomplish. Central to our difficulties in addressing the situation is the fact that we regard ourselves, humanity, as the only important consideration.
The Gaia hypothesis says that the Earth is a living being. It is time we begin to regard it as such.
The question is not how many of us can survive on the planet, but instead how many will it take before we kill Her. Our growth is the growth of a cancer, and it threatens the life of the living being in which it is occurring.
Until we incorporate that kind of thinking, all of our solutions are really only attempts to make it possible to put more of us on Earth’s surface. We continue to think just like cancer cells would think.
Alternatively, of course, we could be working toward expanding off the planet , but there is no future in that unless we succeed in slowing down the pace at which we are growing and destroying our environment, anyway.
But there is a vital difference in the attitude of slowing it down in order to gain time to get off the planet, and making the resources that we have here on the planet extend a little farther so that we can continue our exploitation of Earth as if we are incapable of killing all life that exists here.
June Halls
December 1st
Well done! We must perservere.
Sorry I am unable to host an event at present.
William Rice rice
December 2nd
7 billion souls?…keep on truckin’ folks ….it takes a village
Bob Vadas, Jr.
December 2nd
Let’s face it, Republicans really do know that global warming is an anthropogenic problem, but it’s definitely an inconvenient truth that goes vs. their political agenda. In particular, the petroleum and automobile industries provide much campaign funding to downplay the importance of climate change and ocean acidification for destroying our terrestrial and/or aquatic ecosystems. It’s ironic that people who embrace technology, including coal-fired power plants, don’t embrace the precautionary, environmental science that goes along with it (as if they really know better!). Even the U.S. military, insurance companies, and some religious institutions are adapting to this new reality, rather than bury their heads in the sand like maladapted dinosaurs…
mbm j
December 2nd
have not been well enough 2 be giving presentations,so will keep harmin on the need for cthru rubber reinforced safety glass web,as wot govs keep allowin thru as safe healthy hygienic protectin planet is harmin us fauna planet,so how long think will last if stay on same bizarre tracks? bitumened roads which crack crumble @ shifts in axis when how many keep insistin usin artillery daily or the likes? horrified @ stupidity a how many,when keep takin from earth but not fixing existin problems 2 create a better environment 4 our children,? so if we want a better,stop votin ppl in, but vote on proper cthru rubber reinforced glass web productions,so stops the greedy uneducateds from exploiting lord god jesuses freely given fauna planets,as there is more then 1,&how have these ppl helped keep safe? by sendin how many tonnes a junk in2 space thus far,only 2 hear how hurtling thru air 2 hit where? just askin as concerned patron private cit, greenee, reiki, shaman, greenpeacer, activist?! mbm j
jim
December 2nd
“Only 100 miles by 100 miles of low-tech Solar Thermal Power mirrors would supply all US electric grid needs.” gee, only 10,000 square miles – wow – i’m sure we could pick this up for a couple of bux. An area larger than five of our states. See, this is the problem with all of you greenies, you are that way because you think emotionally, not logically. And what do we do at night? Maybe we can store massive amounts of excess power from the daytime in Algores garage. THE TECHNOLOGY ISN”T AVAILABLE!!!!! Solve the real problem Pf=Pp(1+g)^n
Francis Edward (Gene) Garren
December 2nd
Sadly as the true scientific information is published and also made available to Congress, the more negative propaganda is being bombarded on the American People. As a simple voter, I can name over a half dozen, respected scientific organizations that clearly show, Global Warming is real and that excessive CO-2 emissions are the cause. Yet our Congress failed again to pass a truly comprehensive climate bill. This is unbelievable especially in the light of the record warmth of the last 2 decades. This can only be due to excessive influence on many in Congress by the greedy CEO’s in the polluting energy industries, who have allowed greed, arrogance, and denial in the name of power, and money. Sadly the White House of the last President simply ignored the reports and insured that almost another decade passed without any action. The current White House has tried to act completely different, but cannot get the needed support from Congress thus far. It is unacceptable that anyone in Congress, or running for President of the United States, could still be in the camp of the ignorers of the truth. Yet our dismal failure as a nation to truly take the world lead in reversing the effects of Green House emissions stand out clear for all the world to see. As a 100% service connected retired combat veteran, I have sadly been enlightened, since retiring eleven years ago of this sad, but true fact. Therefore any effort to combat the half truths, lies, and distortion of the ” green house emission supporters and their propaganda campaign is an absolute requirement. Sadly the enormous amount of money being pumped into this campaign of lies, and distortions has made almost half our nation to still be “Global Warming Deniers”. This campaign has many very skillful and capable propagandists among it’s ranks. Many Americans refuse to even study the facts or consider knowing the truth due to the success of this propaganda campaign. The propaganda is broadcasted over the television, radio, and internet, and other sources. For this reason far to many good decent Americans don’t even have Global Warming on their radar screen. Many will only wake up when the effects of climate change come to their very door step. Sadly so far in spite of the efforts of many environmental groups and courageous members of Congress and President Obama, the battle has so far turned out in the favor of the polluters and not mankind as a whole. The fact that most American homes are air conditioned is another reason for so much denial even today. People simply do not experience the effects of the record warmth due to living in a “man made air conditioned paradise”. Also we have largely become an indoor, air conditioned, computerized society further removed nature and the out doors. In addition the propagandist have managed to weave their distorted lies into the basic good fabric of many American’s noble beliefs. For many anyone who is concerned about Global Warming is automatically a “left wing, unpatriotic, wining, good for nothing person”. These good people continue to go to the polls and vote for the supporters of continued polluting in the name of the economy, jobs, and the American Way. Also we will continue to see the forces of greed win over until we get true campaign funding reform. Far too many people in my view are getting elected to Congress and the White House due to the massive amount of media paid for in part by the supporters of continued Global Warming denial. This is as important for all environmental groups to demand as any campaign such as the one mentioned by this web site. Until all who run for public office are given equal media, and money will be see faster and more effective Climate Change legislation. However as long as we have such a super large number of corrupt people in Congress and perhaps again in the While House, we are fighting an uphill battle and will not see the needed legislation and action until it is perhaps too late and past the point of no return to which many scientist warn is coming.
These corrupt officials must be voted out and exposed for what they truly are. These propagandist of TV, Radio, the internet etc, must also be exposed for what they truly are. We must educated the non-believers so that they too will demand action. Until this is done we will remain a divided nation right down the middle as we sadly are today. The current administration in the White House, also must pull of the gloves if reelected next year and call those in Congress who do not want positive change for what they truly are. Also the American People need to be educated on where the money is coming from to support the campaigns of all running for and serving in public office. Time is running out and up to now our few victories have been little more than “window dressing”. The bottom line is that the CO-2/green house emissions are rising each year and so far those who want positive change have been on the losing side.
It is a sad but true fact.
RAMON J. LONGA
December 2nd
The time is now, we all humans need to do some-thing to stop the use of NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS, NUCLEAR ARMS, THE USE OF GAS-OIL AND PETROLEUN,THE USE OF CHEMICALS ,All this is a crime agains our planet and the creatures in this planet. We need more green energy now… RJL…
Victor Bruce Anderson
December 2nd
3 of 5 of the Molasses (Florida) Keys are NOW underwater.
Joe Lanteigne
December 2nd
At this point , nothing short of a revolution is necessary just to minimize the damage and hardship that we will leave our children. Time to grow up. This revolution will not be televised , so the internet is it. This is it. Keystone XL arrestees started the protests, then OWS, This is it. Our ship has arrived. Get everyone you know to get on board. the sooner the better, because those of us that will fight, wont stop ’til its done. A collaboration of 1st nations in Alberta and BC announced today that they’ll have bull dozers to stop any pipelines that cross their land. I’ll be there beside them. 1st. a revenue neutral carbon fee (not just in B.C.) then,#2… NO new coal mines, then, #3 STOP all fossil fuel subsidies. These are three easy, do-able , substantial policies that we must have
JP GHOSH
December 2nd
Consumption must be reduced to a sustainable level- we all with our progeny shall share the benefit in ages.Thank you for sustainable effort.
Raymond Polson
December 2nd
I could not have commented better than the
afore mentioned ones. Particularly L. . Brown,
my sentiments exactly, since I share his age in
half a month. The earth is extremely rare, we
are not getting another one any time soon ~
saddens me daily to witness its destruction!
Political help? ~ some, but look at the holier
than thou radical right record!
Ananya Roy
December 2nd
In our earnest responsibility we must take care of our global village and not bind our interests within political boundaries only. Therefore there should be rising concern to preserve the precious finite resources as well as stop our wasteful consumption patterns be it energy or water or land. If we all can pledge to save this beautiful blue planet we shall be able to sustain it for our grand children. Aren’t we responsible enough to do that?
e-greenbuilding
December 2nd
Well done in your effort. We will watch closely the upcoming events!!!
Mark Skudlarek
December 2nd
Why not call out the real problem, Industrial Destruction of the Earth. Climate Change is just one of the by-products.
Hanniki Pieterse
December 2nd
I am amazed at the fact that there are still people asking what they can do to turn this around. You really do not need a degree of any kind – you only have to look at your lifestyle. Do I eat meat, do I walk whenever I can, do I recycle (properly!!!), do I save water by using bathroom water on my plants, is my garden indigenous?
What do I teach my kids? Do I just pull my shoulders up and wait for the next guy to do something? Let us all do what Braam (The Great Wall of China) does – DOT – Do one thing.
Addys
December 2nd
For those who believe that the USA is one of the cleaner countries, look well to China, that besides their pollution is doing major change to reduce it, employing new transportation systems, etc. Whilst the USA does nothing much than debate, keep selling cars that are not fuel efficient – compared to EU cars which for many years ago have been, and we are just now tapping into still not to their mileage per gallon, and finally export all our garbage to other countries, probably elevating their carbon foot print, which was our consumerist garbage to begin with.
John Ross
December 2nd
1. Safely recycle 100% of all human-generated waste products.
2. Peacefully reduce the human population with family planning education.
Marg.
December 2nd
I agree that finding that “equilibrium” is the huge challenge.
Jeffrey Eric Grant
December 3rd
I need energy, the cheaper the better! I live in Connecticut and will freeze to death if I don’t heat my house. I would go crazy without electricity.
Where do I get those things? Not from windmills. Not from Solar Cells. Not from Hydro….nope…..Natural Gas, Coal and Nuclear.
joe tomicki
December 5th
sadly its going to take something realty bad to happen before we start realty doing something. and we have the tech. but not using it, no wonder mother nature is soooo pistedoff.
Md. Sirajul Islam Molla
December 5th
I am sorry that in spite of your several requests I could not arrange any seminar yet, but we arranged a Human Chain on the 3rd of December to express our solidarity with countries around the world against climate change. We tried to send a strong message to the greenhouse gas emitters particularly the westerns and the emerging polluters like China, Brazil, India, Iran and Indonesia. Hundreds of people from about a dozens of organizations including Bangladesh Paribesh Andolan (the largest one) and Sunder Jiban attended the event to raise their voice against polluters and exploiters. This is not the end. We will continue our movement against the polluters to reduce the GHG emission to a significant level. At the same time we will mount our pressure to have our due compensation to help our poor people fight against the resultant effects of climate change.
Winona M Lineberger
December 5th
We are far past the point of blame now. Nothing has been done to ease the effects by the major govts. Whether nature or people are the triggers, is moot.
We need to come up with solutions and leadership. Instead of being so negative, step up to the plate and lead in your little sphere. Many drops make an ocean. We can do it but not if we sulk and whine that it’s too late or not people’s fault etc. Those of us who have a voice, speak out! Loudly. Or join the OWS worldwide. Vote, vote, vote. You have that power, use it. We can bring down emissions, educate, lead politically or socially or just sit and blame. Our own choice, and our own consequences.
John Ross
December 6th
None of your activities will safely recycle the growing tons of pollution dumped in landfills and in the global ocean and up into the air, or peacefully reduce the human population with family planning education. So, the human poulation will go right on growing with its expanding economy and growing pollution beyond the limits of the biosphere, when Nature will solve the problem in the dramatic ways for which she is so famous, and we humans will be unlucky if any of us survive.
Joseph
December 19th
I hear (that’s how normal citizens begin talking about something without trying to sound like “experts”) that beef consumption, that is all the fossil fuel required to raise cattle and bring that beef to market, and let’s not forget the cattle’s methane production, is a super high ranking factor among the major categories of C02 pollutants. Is Al G. and the Climate Reality Project standing behind this reality? Or am I mistaken? Has anyone tried to measure methane produced by us meat eaters after the cook out? The former is a serious question despite the levity the latter is injecting into the argument.