The facts are devastatingly clear.
Around the globe, we are on track to see the hottest year yet in 2010. From the flooding in Pakistan to droughts in Russia and landslides in China, the effects of this year’s extreme weather are catastrophic and undeniable.
The recent pattern of extreme weather events is consistent with what scientists have projected to result from climate change: temperature shifts, severe rainfall and snow in some parts of the world, and major droughts in others.
Check out Repower America’s fact sheet on extreme weather and share it with your friends.
Despite the overwhelming facts, skeptics — like the now infamous Koch brothers1, Massey coal2 and Lord Monckton3 — will no doubt continue to spend big bucks to keep spreading misinformation about global warming.
But if we want to fight the skeptics, we’ll need a growing number of people to get informed. As the evidence mounts, leaders like Russian President Dmitry Medvedev are finally speaking out about climate change. President Medvedev spoke out at a United Nations Security Council meeting and said,
“What is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions in the past. This means that we need to change the way we work, change the methods that we used in the past.”4
In Pakistan, nearly 1,600 people have died this summer from the worst monsoon-related floods in living memory. And around the world, 2000-2009 was the warmest decade on record5, and 2010 is on track to be the warmest year the world has seen in 131 years.
Extreme weather events are putting lives in danger all around the world. Make sure you get the facts and spread the word.
Learn more about the link between extreme weather and climate change today.
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1. Jane Mayer, “Covert Operations: The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama,” The New Yorker, August 30, 2010. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer
2. Tom Zeller Jr. and Ben Werschkul, “A Coal Executive Pushes Back,” The New York Times, August 17, 2010.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/coal-executive-pushes-back/
3. Suzanne Goldenberg, “Climate change denier Lord Monckton meets Glenn Beck,” The Guardian, October 30, 2009. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/oct/30/lord-monckton-glenn-beck-copenhagen
4. The Kremlin, “Speech at expanded Security Council meeting on fire safety measures for strategic facilities,” August 4, 2010. http://eng.kremlin.ru/transcripts/724
5. National Climatic Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “State of the Climate in 2009,” June 2010. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams-state-of-the-climate/2009.php
Let’s have zeal to self tune in sasrai-Movement policy and be committed to save resource and reduce solid waste in our daily living – no matter how small it is. Plz relentless to voice from all corner across the globe
* Please, save a drop of water daily, during all water related activities
* Please, plant at least a tree annually in own home or in the community
* Please, keep off electric appliances one minute daily
* Please, suspend travel by personal car once a day
* Please, keep a day in a week luxury free
* Please, do not throw away the waste wherever you like
* Please, No more junk food
* Please, save one minute to think on Climate Change and Environment
* You could uphold the movement instantly using sasrai-Movement appeal at the bottom of your all printed material
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Let’s be a desired friend to all living body, humanity, environment and earth
Let’s we try to save one Taka/dollar/pound/yen …………FROM daily LUXURY combat the CLIMATE CHANGE and the sequences
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Eid Mubarak
Wish the peace, prosperity, sustainable living and environmental justice for organism in universe
Annihilation, eradication of corruption – criminal, crook, deceiver, swindler
AIMED AT SUSTAINABLE LIVING, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Well, from what I see on Internet news we need more people from groups like this panning out onto the Internet to counter the outright misinformation and downright hatred being spewed out here instead of just staying in the confort zones of our own sites. And that is not only regarding the facts surrounding climate change’s effects on our world, it is the blatant attacks on Mr. Gore (by certain interests as well I have no doubt) in order to discredit him. I am out here every day trying to as best as I can counter the misinformation and the hateful content when I see it, because believe it or not people believe it.
That has been the one arena where deniers, skeptics, fossil fuel interests and their media accomplices have had the biggest success. Let’s face it, more people read news on the Internet now than read newspapers with the exception still perhaps of watching it on TV. And these entities know it. I think if you want an idea on how to bring about a shift in how people see this, you must become more aggressive on the Internet especially in disseminating truth to counter the lies and misinformation being spread. And it is also no secret that companies like BP, Monsanto, and others budget monies each year not only to lobby Washington DC, but to hire people to post propaganda on the Internet to discredit truthful information put out about them.
There is no way these interests should be winning that battle when we have truth on our side.
Blessings:
I have a hard time taking this organization seriously when you talk about clean air acts and clean water acts, but fail to recognize that in 2005, Bush and Co. made the Oil and Gas Corporations exempt from those acts. That’s just the tip of the TRUTH iceberg.
I recommend watching a couple of documentaries.
1. GASLAND.
2. BLUE GOLD.
3. FLOW – For Love Of Water.
You are going to have to STOP supporting this corruption.
STOP buying their products, STOP paying their taxes.
Until you recognize that YOU are part of the problem, you will never solve it.
your humble servant,
ancient clown