Climate change aspects and issues
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The Global Community has had work on the climate change aspects and issues ever since 1985. A short list of our previous work on climate change and issues. A short list of our previous work on climate change is shown here

For more recent work on the climate change aspects and issues read the following table.

 Month/year  Theme and Author  Read contents
 July 13, 2007   Global Warming Is A Human Rights Issue, by Mary Shaw, mary@maryshawonline.com published in Countercurrents.org The U.S. -- with about five percent of the world's population -- remains the world's chief polluter, generating 25 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions. And the Bush administration continues to stonewall, lest new emissions regulations should inconvenience his corporate cronies.   Read Global Warming Is A Human Rights Issue
 June 1, 2007   The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) and TheCorporateCounsel.Net invite you to participate in a free webconference: Tackling Global Warming: Challenges for Corporate Boards and their Advisors. , by NCSE. Climate Change: Science and Solutions http://www.ncseonline.org/2008conference/ http://www.tacklingglobalwarming.com/   Read NCSE invites you to participate in free webconference: Tackling Global Warming- Challenges for Corporate Boards and their Advisors
 May 15, 2007   One Billion To Be Displaced By 2050 , by Agence France Presse, Countercurrents.org At least one billion people risk fleeing their homes over the next four decades because of conflicts and natural disasters that will worsen with global warming, a relief agency warned Monday. In a report, British-based Christian Aid said countries worldwide, especially the poorest, are now facing the greatest forced migration ever — one that will dwarf those displaced by World War II.   Read One Billion To Be Displaced By 2050
 May 14, 2007   Deforestation: The Hidden Cause Of Global Warming , by Daniel Howden , The Independent Countercurrents.org The accelerating destruction of the rainforests that form a precious cooling band around the Earth's equator, is now being recognised as one of the main causes of climate change. Carbon emissions from deforestation far outstrip damage caused by planes and automobiles and factories. The rampant slashing and burning of tropical forests is second only to the energy sector as a source of greenhouses gases according to report published today by the Oxford-based Global Canopy Programme, an alliance of leading rainforest scientists.   Read Deforestation: The Hidden Cause Of Global Warming
 May 14, 2007  Climate Change: A Moral Obligation for the Developed World The Nobel laureate calls for industrialized nations to step up their efforts on climate change for the sake of the world's poor. by Desmond Tutu, TomPaine.com, also in The Guardian, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Environment.   Read Climate Change: A Moral Obligation for the Developed World
 May 8, 2007   CLIMAT : L’HOMME EST BIEN COUPABLE DU RECHAUFFEMENT CLIMATIQUE Notre réseau de personnes engagées dans la culture de la paix ; nous : les artistes, écrivains, intellectuels divers, qui chantons l’amour de la nature, nous pouvons être le ciment de cette civilisation de l’exigence pour la paix et la protection et la promotion de la nature. by Guy CREQUIE   Read CLIMAT : L’HOMME EST BIEN COUPABLE DU RECHAUFFEMENT CLIMATIQUE
 April 16, 2007  Global Warming Challenges Environmental Law We need a new approach to environmental law that would bypass the debate over property rights vs. the environment and replace the discretion to regulate with the obligation to protect, by Kelpie Wilson, http://www.alternet.org/authors/6735/, TruthOut.org published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, EnviroHealth   Read Global Warming Challenges Environmental Law
 March 5, 2007   Is U.S. Global Warming Pollution Violating Human Rights Law? , by Megan Tady, The NewStandard, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, EnviroHealth, As the ice they depend on for their way of life melts away around them, indigenous people of the Arctic are taking a crack at Washington in international court.   Read Is U.S. Global Warming Pollution Violating Human Rights Law?
 February 12, 2007  Tackling Climate Change in the U.S. Potential U.S. Carbon Emissions Reductions from Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency by 2030 Energy efficiency measures can prevent our carbon emissions from growing over the next 23 years, even as our economy grows. The six renewable technologies have the potential to make the kind of deep cuts needed in our carbon emissions. Of the total carbon reductions possible, 57% are due to energy efficiency and 43% are from renewables. , by Charles F. Kutscher, Editor American Solar Energy Society   Read Tackling Climate Change in the U.S.
 February 11, 2007   Bush, Cronies and Soldiers Are War Criminals, by Dr. Glen Barry, An immoral, doltish President leads his people in criminal military adventurism and climate change policy obstruction. Earth Meanders and Ecological Internet (EI) Insightful original Earth essays placing environmental sustainability within the context of other contemporary issues including peace and freedom.   Read Bush, Cronies and Soldiers Are War Criminals
 February 12, 2007   Scientists Conclude Global Warming Is Unequivocal. Most warming in the last 50 years is due to human activity, by Mark Rainer, World Socialist Web published in Countercurrents.org   Read Scientists Conclude Global Warming Is Unequivocal
 February 5, 2007  Who's Funding Global Warming? Find out which banks are part of the problem, and which are part of the solution, in the fight against global climate change. , by Tara Lohan, http://www.alternet.org/authors/8104/, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, EnviroHealth   Read Who's Funding Global Warming?
 February 9, 2007   The conspiracy Of Silence On Climate Change, A review of George Monbiot's book - Heat: How to stop the planet burning, by Ashwin Gambhir, published in Countercurrents.org   Read The conspiracy Of Silence On Climate Change
 February 8, 2007   Urgent: Climate Wake Up Call! Avaaz.org is a community of global citizens who take action on the major issues facing the world today. The aim of Avaaz.org is to ensure that the views and values of the world’s people shape global decisions. Avaaz.org members act for a more just and peaceful world and a globalisation with a human face, by Res Publica, Res Publica is a community of public sector professionals dedicated to promoting good governance, civic virtue and deliberative democracy.   Read Urgent: Climate Wake Up Call!
 February 2, 2007   Climate Change 2007 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to assess scientific, technical and socio- economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation. It is currently finalizing its Fourth Assessment Report "Climate Change 2007". The reports by the three Working Groups provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the current state of knowledge on climate change.   Read Climate Change 2007
 February 3, 2007   Humans Blamed For Climate Change , by Richard Black , with BBC, published in Countercurrents.org   Read Humans Blamed For Climate Change
 February 1, 2007   The compatibility of collapse and resistance. In this time of more discussion about climate, war, peak oil and other major issues, debate almost rages about the relevance of resistance and activism versus accepting or encouraging total collapse, by Jan Lundberg , with Culture Change Culture Change was founded by Sustainable Energy Institute Will peak oil save the climate, or shall we first embrace a new culture?   Read Culture Change Letter #152: The compatibility of collapse and resistance
 January 21, 2007   Clean Coal, Forest Biofuel and Other Fairy Tales, by Dr. Glen Barry , Earth Meanders and Ecological Internet (EI) Insightful original Earth essays placing environmental sustainability within the context of other contemporary issues including peace and freedom.   Read Clean Coal, Forest Biofuel and Other Fairy Tales
 January 20, 2007   Ending Industrialism , by Jan Lundberg , with Culture Change Culture Change was founded by Sustainable Energy Institute Will peak oil save the climate, or shall we first embrace a new culture?   Read Culture Change Letter #150: Ending Industrialism
 January 14, 2007   Indirect Impacts of Peak Oil and Climate Change , by John Rawlins, Whatcom Watch Online Fossil Fuels at Peak   Read Indirect Impacts of Peak Oil and Climate Change
 January 10, 2007   EU: Climate change will transform the face of the continent , by Michael McCarthy and Stephen Castle , Independent News and Media Limited The Independent Europe, the richest and most fertile continent and the model for the modern world, will be devastated by climate change, the European Union predicts today.   Read EU: Climate change will transform the face of the continent
 January 12, 2007   Action Alert: Stop the Great Ugandan Rainforest Give-Away, by Dr. Glen Barry , Rainforest Portal and Ecological Internet (EI) Insightful original Earth essays placing environmental sustainability within the context of other contemporary issues including peace and freedom.   Read Action Alert: Stop the Great Ugandan Rainforest Give-Away
 January 7, 2007   Climate Change Denial , by Dr. Glen Barry , Earth Meanders and Ecological Internet (EI) Insightful original Earth essays placing environmental sustainability within the context of other contemporary issues including peace and freedom.   Read Climate Change Denial
 January 12, 2007   Climate change Will Transform The Face Of Europe, by Michael McCarthy & Stephen Castle , with The Independent, published in Countercurrents.org   Read Climate change Will Transform The Face Of Europe
 January 5, 2007   A Christian 07: an effective remedial action to save us from severe climate change , by Bill Henderson , Countercurrents.org   Read A Christian 07: an effective remedial action to save us from severe climate change
 December 22, 2006   Climate Change vs Mother Nature , by Geneviève Roberts , Countercurrents.org   Read Climate Change vs Mother Nature
 December 14, 2006   Scientific Facts on Arctic Climate Change, by GreenFacts Press, Facts on Health and on the Environment   Read Scientific Facts on Arctic Climate Change
 December 1, 2006   Western states unite in climate change fight, by Këri Bolding, KTVZ.com news sources, Global warming is a serious issue that impacts everyone and must get the attention that it deserves   Read Western states unite in climate change fight
 November 30, 2006   Climate Change Initiatives are Heating Up in the United States, by Jamiyo Mack , with courtesy of Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA), published by Environmental Expert S.L.   Read Climate Change Initiatives are Heating Up in the United States











 

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