Neighborhood Energy network - a NYC based eco-Activist group
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Neighborhood Energy network - a NYC based eco-Activist group by Neighborhood Energy Network
I am on the mailing list for the Neighborhood Energy Network, based in New York City. They regularly send out updates, presentation and movie announcements, and activist opportunities, to a large mailing list. This one, their latest, lists many useful sites on Climate Change, including how to deal with deniers.
It is presented here as an aid for those who want to be better informed and to answer critics.
Climate change is here, but it is clear there's more to it than just rising CO2 levels - indeed if that's all there was, it would be much easier to solve. Also talked about here is the effect of soot, some of which comes from increased shipping in the newly opened Arctic Route. I wish someone would study the effect of all those new ice breakers criss-crossing the arctic, and even the antarctic, slicing off hundreds of miles of vulnerable ice edges each time. Some of these ice shelves took decades to form, or longer; they cannot reform to the same density in time for the next shipping assault. What does this do to the overall ice coverage range?
This information will make people think. That's what it ought to do. That's what people must do.
We recently passed an average of 400ppm of CO2. The president says to expect action on climate change within weeks but we've heard this so many times before, and Kyoto, the most significant Climate Change agreement, was a dud because China and the United States, now the biggest emitters of CO2, never agreed to it, and other countries off-shored their polluting industries to countries not covered by the agreement. As the articles below make clear, we are not only far from where we need to be, we are moving in the wrong direction, and, using worldwide averages, at an increasing rate too.
Perhaps the discussion we need to be having is what to do now that Climate Change is inevitable. Here in NYC, we are planning to build seawalls, making it more expensive to live in the most vulnerable neighborhoods (this is a major reversal from policies that encouraged people to build by the shore), and building out marshlands to mitigate more Hurricane Sandy type storms that are sure to come. This may be the only kind of Change We Can Believe In.
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