“350 uses online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions to oppose new coal, oil and gas projects, take money out of the companies that are heating up the planet and build 100% clean energy solutions that work for all. 350’s network extends to 188 countries. We believe in a safe climate and a better future — a just, prosperous, and equitable world built with the power of ordinary people.”
Author: swi417
Saving Our Planet
Our mission is to inspire, energize and enable the entire community of humans to work together to save the planet and to convince world leaders to make the fight against climate change their number one priority.
SavingOurPlanet.net has tons of resources that can be utilized by everyone!
Conserving Energy In Your Home
- Turn off lights that you are not using.
- Install a programmable thermostat to regulate your heating and cooling when you are not home.
- Set your water heater to a lower setting or call a service person to adjust it for you.
- Hang your clothes to dry either on a clothesline or a clothes tree, at least some of the time. In the winter, this is a natural humidifier in a dry room.
- Buy rechargeable batteries and a recharger.
- The fuller the freezer, the more energy efficient it is.
- Use a microwave rather than an oven, range or toaster oven whenever possible.
Care2
“Our Promise: Welcome to Care2, the world’s largest community for good. Here, you’ll find 39 million like-minded people working towards progress, kindness, and lasting impact.
Care2 Stands Against: bigots, bullies, science deniers, misogynists, gun lobbyists, xenophobes, the willfully ignorant, animal abusers, frackers, and other mean people. If you find yourself aligning with any of those folks, you can move along, nothing to see here.
Care2 Stands With: humanitarians, animal lovers, feminists, rabble-rousers, nature-buffs, creatives, the naturally curious, and people who really love to do the right thing.
You are our people. You Care. We Care2.”
Does doom and gloom convince anyone of climate change?
“A couple of weeks ago, an article in New York magazine laid out a horrific scenario of global warming. The photo at the top summed up the tone: A fossilized human skull, jaw gaping beneath aviator sunglasses, hovered over a caption warning that people could be “cooked to death from both inside and out” in a hotter climate.
If that’s not doom and gloom, I don’t know what is. Yet despite being a complete downer, the article quickly became New York magazine’s most-read story ever.”
The PEW Charitable Trusts
“Informed by the founders’ interest in research, practical knowledge and a robust democracy, our portfolio has grown over time to include public opinion research; arts and culture; and environmental, health, state and consumer policy initiatives. Our mission is to:
- Improve public policy by conducting rigorous analysis, linking diverse interests to pursue common cause and insisting on tangible results;
- Inform the public by providing useful data that illuminate the issues and trends shaping our world;
- Invigorate civic life by encouraging democratic participation and strong communities. In our hometown of Philadelphia, we support arts and culture organizations as well as institutions that enhance the well-being of the region’s neediest citizens.”
13 Misconceptions About Global Warming
How Big is a 4-5°C Difference?
Source: xkcd.com
A Timeline of Earth’s Average Temperature
This comic strip combines climate change history with the history of people. This is an easier way to put climate change into a perspective that we are all familiar with. The image is too long to post here conveniently, so if you’re interested click here!
Climate Change in a Nutshell
Reddit user mredding explained it best in this comment where he states:
In the last 650k years, Earth has gone through 7 periods of glacial advance and retreat. The last was 7k years ago, marking the end of the Ice Age.
CO2 was demonstrated to trap heat in the mid 19th century. In the course of the last 650k years, Earth atmospheric CO2 levels has never been above 300ppm, and we know that through mineral deposits, fossils, and arctic ice leaving telltale predictable signs of how much CO2 must have been in the air at the time. Today, CO2 is over 400ppm. Not only have we kept fantastic records pre-industrial revolution, especially the Swedes for centuries, but arctic ice has acted as a more recent history of the last several dozen centuries. CO2 levels has been growing at unprecedented rates and achieving levels higher than we’ve ever known to occur that wasn’t in the wake of planetary disaster and mass extinction. It follows that if CO2 traps heat, and there’s more CO2 in the atmosphere than ever before, it’s going to trap more heat than ever before.