Let me quote lessons worth sharing from the eNewsletter:
Global warming is caused by releasing what are called greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The most common greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide.
Everyday activities like turn the lights on, cook food, or heat or cool our homes rely on energy sources like coal and oil emit carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.
We can help stop global warming by taking action here at 350.org
350 is the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide--measured in "Parts Per Million" in our atmosphere.
350 PPM--it's the number humanity needs to get back to as soon as possible to avoid runaway climate change.
The United Nations is working on a treaty, which is supposed to be completed in December of 2009 at a conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The current plans for the treaty are much too weak to get us back to safety.
Getting back to 350 means transforming our world. It means building solar arrays instead of coal plants, it means planting trees instead of clear-cutting rainforests, it means increasing efficiency and decreasing our waste.
Getting to 350 means developing a thousand different solutions--all of which will become much easier if we have a global treaty grounded in the latest science and built around the principles of equity and justice.
To get this kind of treaty, we need a movement of people who care enough about our shared global future to get involved and make their voices heard.
Dr. James Hansen, of NASA, the United States' space agency, has been researching global warming longer than just about anyone else.
Dr. James Hansen was the first to publicly testify before the U.S. Congress, in June of 1988, that global warming was real.
America has been producing more CO2 than any other country, and leads the industrialized world in per capita emissions.
Even though China now produces as much CO2 annually, the US still produces many times more carbon per person than China, India, and most other countries.
In solidarity with the international community, members of Kabataan Partylist, League of Filipino Students (LFS), Anakbayan, Student Christian Movement of the Philippines (SCMP), College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP), National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) and Karatula, used their hands to paint a world, where its inhabitants are working together to reduce its carbon emissions.
The youth groups joined the global climate action to call for the reduction of CO2 in the atmosphere to 350ppm.
The UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen will be held to approve a new document to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which will become the new international agreement to regulate the reduction of harmful emissions in the atmosphere of the planet.
Satellite images of recent years show that the polar cap of the Earth has been lessening in size. About 80 percent of ice will disappear in the Arctic Ocean during the forthcoming decade. It may vanish entirely in 20 years, scientists say.
If the new international agreement is not approved, the world will face new conflicts caused with climate migration. About a quarter of the planet’s population – some 1.8 billion people – may suffer from the shortage of water by 2080.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Monday warned that the world is on the brink of a "catastrophic" future of killer heatwaves, floods and droughts unless governments speed up negotiations on climate change before vital talks in Copenhagen in December.
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