CNN is airing what looks to be an important series this Tuesday and Wednesday. Below are some other important tidbits.
Anderson Cooper on the Colbert Report
Disclaimer to those who don’t believe in the Earth:
If you are one of the few people who don’t yet understand what climate change is, don’t feel lonely - there are actually millions of rural people in very undeveloped parts of the world who don’t understand that what they do there (in China’s most poluted cities, for example) can possibly affect any other country in other parts of the world. So, you’re not alone, at least not for long. It’s true - we live on the Earth, and we humans interact with the environment and are affecting the system. I invite you to contemplate this: Imagine living in a home without access to new fresh water, new food, or new air. You are not allowed to leave and must do everything in your life with what you have in that home. Every day, the waste from your activities, your excrement, and yes, your innovations too, all pile up. How long would you stand to let this accumulate before you realized that you ought to do something about the mess? Yes, I wouldn’t want to live like that either! Here is a new opportunity to catch up on what the leaders, business people and so many young and old people know:
For those of use who understand that we ARE the environment, and for anyone who has never considered themselves environmentalists,
here is a new resource that bridges the understanding that we must take action and combines it with a good understanding of reality:
http://www.worldchanging.com/
Heard of PBS? Yes, the PBS that for decades has created programs and education services enrich the lives of all Americans:
They have the following expose available online:
HOT POLITICS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hotpolitics/view/
As more and more Americans look for a response to the realities of climate change, FRONTLINE correspondent Deborah Amos investigates the political decisions that have prevented the United States government from confronting one of the most serious problems facing humanity today.
In February 2007, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that the science on global warming is “unequivocal” and asserted with 90 percent confidence that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) from human activities, primarily from the burning of fossil fuels, have been the main cause.
Yet, since 1992 — from President George H.W. Bush’s insistence that the first world climate change treaty make CO2 emission targets voluntary, through former President Bill Clinton’s failure to pass a promised energy tax or to push for U.S. Senate ratification of the Kyoto treaty, through President George W. Bush’s 2001 reversal of a campaign pledge to push for mandatory limits on CO2 emissions and his complete withdrawal from Kyoto — the executive branch of the U.S. government has failed to join in climate change agreements adopted by much of the rest of the world.
Hot Politics goes behind the scenes to examine the forces behind the inaction, including a well-financed energy industry campaign that challenged the broad scientific consensus on the human causes of climate change in an effort to stall federal regulation. Fossil fuel companies funneled millions of dollars to the institutes of global warming skeptics, including former President of the National Academy of Sciences Frederick Seitz, who cast doubt about the science in media reports on climate change.