Saturday 09 Dec 2006
Postitive, No-Regrets Solutions to Climate Change
Those who are cynical and despairing about facing and dealing with climate change often say that solutions and not realistic because people will not vote for poverty.
However the problem is not that people will not vote for poverty, it is that people ARE
voting for poverty. Older people are voting for poverty for others and […]
Thursday 16 Nov 2006
Trapped by Climate Change
The world faces an enormous, truly global dilemma. Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions are trapping heat from the sun, warming the earth’s atmosphere, seas and land with severe consequences for climate, weather, sea level, arctic ice, the Gulf Stream and other natural global systems. Even worse, there is a deadline or
‘tipping point’ […]
Thursday 16 Nov 2006
Our Mediterranean-sized atmosphere
The atmosphere of our planet is very thin compared to its circumference. In fact, you are closer to the frigid vacuum of space than you are to a place just a few miles away from you.
Our atmosphere is made up of gasses, and all gases can be liquefied (think of steam condensing).
If our entire […]
