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350 PPM C02 Is No Longer Achievable

November 7, 2011 by Jim Pierobon
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Here’s one slice of irony from today’s protest against TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline surrounding the White House: actually reducing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere from about 389 parts per million (ppm) currently to the widely-held threshold of 350 ppm is no longer possible. The combined impacts, to... [read more]

When Changing A Lightbulb Isn’t Enough…

September 1, 2011 by Marc Gunther
with 380 views
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   What have you done lately about climate change? In the last two weeks, about 700 Americans – with more to come – have been arrested in front of the White House, calling on President Obama to block the construction of the $7 billion, 1700-mile Keystone pipeline project that will bring Canadian tar sands oil to largest... [read more]

Oil Sands Anxiety Is Overblown

August 26, 2011 by Geoffrey Styles
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As I was catching up on a two-week backlog of news after my vacation, I ran across a New York Times editorial with the promising title of "Tar Sands and the Carbon Numbers." Thinking that perhaps the Times might have woken up to the necessity of comparing the lifecycle emissions from oil sands to those from other crude oils, I was... [read more]

Civil Society Shows the Way Towards Long-Term Sino-American Cooperation on Climate

December 10, 2010 by nrdc switchboard
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With two days left in the climate negotiations in Cancun, a group of Chinese and American NGOs showed last night what can be done when we roll up our sleeves and work toward common solutions. With representation across all fields and age ranges, we produced what we hope to be a model for how our two countries can achieve better mutual... [read more]

McKibben: Earth is over

April 19, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
with 355 views
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Bill McKibben, author of the just-released book, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, is doing a lot of interviews, and it makes for interesting reading, to say the least. One of the best interviews I saw with him appeared on Salon, “Eaarth”: Earth is over: What is “Eaarth”? The meaning behind the title is that we really have... [read more]

The technology that could save the planet

December 10, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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What if the technology we need to curb climate change turns out to be not a solar panel, smart grid or electric car battery but social media powered by cellphones, laptops and online networks like Facebook? 350.org event in Copenhagen As I prepare to leave today for the climate negotiations in Copenhagen, I’m struck by–actually,... [read more]

Bill McKibben’s wrap up of the more than 4300 (!) demonstrations for 350 ppm around the planet

October 25, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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The great environmental writer and founder of 350.org, Bill McKibben, is the guest blogger. We’re sitting here in our temporary offices in lower Manhattan hunched over laptops drowning in images—15,000 photos and thousands of minutes of video have arrived from what turned out to be 5,200 rallies, protests, and demonstrations in 181... [read more]

International Day of Climate Action is October 24. Go Out. Then Go Home.

October 21, 2009 by Peter Troast
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The count-down is on. This Saturday you will have an opportunity to join with your neighbors, fellow citizens and fellow humans from around the world to mark Climate Action Day, which 350.org has declared "the most widespread day of environmental action in the planet’s history."  We hope you'll participate in this extraordinary day... [read more]

Nicholas Stern, world’s top climate economist, endorses 350 ppm as “a very sensible long-term target.”

September 9, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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The great environmental writer and founder of 350.org, Bill McKibben, is the guest blogger. Nicholas Stern is the most important climate economist in the world. After a stint as chief economist at the World Bank, he was asked by the government in his native Britain to conduct the most thorough review of the economics of global warming... [read more]

Rajendra Pachauri endorses 350 ppm, not as IPCC chair but “as a human being”

August 25, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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I’m delighted to have the great environmental writer and founder of 350.org, Bill McKibben, as the guest blogger for this big story. Note that Pachauri was the guy handpicked by Bush to replace the “alarmist” Bob Watson. But it’s the facts that make people alarmists, not their politics or professional background (see “Desperate times,... [read more]