Why We are Partnering with StopGlobalWarming.org
As a nation, we have always approached our greatest challenges with wisdom, commitment, and purpose. We use our courage, ingenuity, and creativity to challenge conventional beliefs and find the answers that shatter the boundaries of what is possible. Think of the internal combustion engine, the first moon landing, and the internet. Meeting the challenge of global warming will once again require American leadership to create a sustainable and vibrant future for our children. It will also require the active participation of every U.S. citizen.
The mainstream scientific consensus on global warming is clear and compelling: changes in our climate are real and are already under way. For example, global sea level is rising about three times faster over the past 100 years compared with the previous 3,000 years, and the last decade was the hottest on record. As Earth continues to warm, there is a growing risk that the climate will change in ways that will seriously disrupt our lives, as well as the landscapes and animals we cherish.
UCS has joined the "Stop Global Warming Virtual March on Washington" --together with citizens across the country--to call for real leadership in Washington, DC on the critically important issue of global warming. We invite our members - and your family and friends - to march with us to demonstrate the commitment of the American people to once again finding a solution that creates a better world.
Why We are Partnering with StopGlobalWarming.org
Global warming is fast becoming the number one environmental problem of our time. Apart from its far-reaching impacts on humanity, global warming may prove disastrous to the wildlife of Greater Yellowstone, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other vulnerable wildlands that are already suffering the effects of a changing climate.
The world's leading scientists are now agreed that global warming is real and is happening right now. According to their forecasts, extreme changes in climate could produce a future in which erratic and chaotic weather, melting ice caps and rising sea levels usher in an era of drought, crop failure, famine, flood and mass extinctions.
The good news is, we have the technology to avert such a catastrophic future. All that's lacking is the political will in Washington.
That's why we have joined the "Stop Global Warming Virtual March on Washington" and why we are asking NRDC Members and activists and their family and friends to do the same. Together, we will demand that Congress and the Bush Administration take the necessary and long overdue steps to reverse potentially catastrophic changes in the Earth's climate.
Make your own commitment to stop global warming. Future generations will thank us for taking this momentous step in the right direction.
Sincerely,
John H. Adams
President, NRDC Frances Beinecke
Executive Director, NRDC
NRDC - National Resources Defense Council
NRDC is the nation's most effective environmental action organization. We use law, science and the support of more than 1 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things. Worth Magazine has named NRDC one of America's 100 best charities, and Charity Navigator has given NRDC four stars (out of a possible four).
New Onboard Hydrogen Production Presented
September 28, 2005
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=37110</DIV
[RenewableEnergyAccess.com] Engineuity R&D Ltd. has developed a technology for onboard hydrogen production for vehicles that the company claims make concerns about safety, fuel distribution and storage irrelevant. A modified internal combustion engine can be powered by a continuous flow of hydrogen and steam under full pressure, temperature and power control using a light metal wire made of aluminium or magnesium, water and a special conversion unit. The spent light metal oxide that is separated can be sent back to the factory for electrochemical recycling. The company, which states that the technology ensures that CO2 will not be released into the atmosphere, is currently working on the integration of its production unit with a modified engine. The company said outcomes have the potential for engine performance identical to that of an existing petrol-powered vehicle. The volume required for containing the metal wire is similar to the volume required for petrol; however its weight will be three times greater.
Learn more about this and other renewable energy solutions at:
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=37110</DIV
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ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS FLASHES:
Melting Planet
By Andrew Buncombe and Severin Carrell
The Independent UK
Sunday 02 October 2005
Species are dying out faster than we have dared recognise, scientists will warn this week. The erosion of polar ice is the first break in a fragile chain of life extending across the planet, from bears in the north to penguins in the far south.
The polar bear is one of the natural world's most famous predators - the king of the Arctic wastelands. But, like its vast Arctic home, the polar bear is under unprecedented threat. Both are disappearing with alarming speed.
Thinning ice and longer summers are destroying the bears' habitat, and as the ice floes shrink, the desperate animals are driven by starvation into human settlements - to be shot. Stranded polar bears are drowning in large numbers as they try to swim hundreds of miles to find increasingly scarce ice floes. Local hunters find their corpses floating on seas once coated in a thick skin of ice . . .
Read the entire article at:
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/100305EB.shtml
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Solar Cell Panels Made out of Everyday Plastics
AZoM.com
Monday 10 October 2005
With oil and gas prices in the United States hovering at an all-time high, interest in renewable energy alternatives is again heating up. Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science hope to meet the growing demand with a new and more affordable way to harness the sun's rays: using solar cell panels made out of everyday plastics.
In research published in Nature Materials magazine, UCLA engineering professor Yang Yang, postdoctoral researcher Gang Li and graduate student Vishal Shrotriya showcase their work on an innovative new plastic (or polymer) solar cell they hope eventually can be produced at a mere 10 percent to 20 percent of the current cost of traditional cells, making the technology more widely available.
. . . the solar module itself still represents nearly half of the total installed cost of a traditional solar energy system.
Read the entire article at:
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/101005EA.shtml
Melting Away
By Mike Davis
The Nation
Friday 07 October 2005
The genesis of two category-five hurricanes (Katrina and Rita) in a row over the Gulf of Mexico is an unprecedented and troubling occurrence. But for most tropical meteorologists the truly astonishing "storm of the decade" took place in March 2004. Hurricane Catarina - so named because it made landfall in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina - was the first recorded South Atlantic hurricane in history.
Thresholds, switches, amplifiers, chaos - contemporary geophysics assumes that earth history is inherently revolutionary. This is why many prominent researchers - especially those who study topics like ice-sheet stability and North Atlantic circulation - have always had qualms about the consensus projections of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world authority on global warming.
. . . growing numbers of geophysicists toy with the possibilities of runaway warming returning the earth to the torrid chaos of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM: 55 million years ago), when the extreme and rapid heating of the oceans led to massive extinctions.
. . . An ice-free Arctic Ocean has not existed for at least 1 million years; the authors warn that the earth is inexorably headed toward a "super-interglacial" state "outside the envelope of glacial-interglacial fluctuations that prevailed during recent Earth history." They emphasize that within a century, global warming will probably exceed the maximum Eemian temperature and thus obviate all the models that have made this their essential scenario. They also suggest that the total or partial collapse of the Greenland Ice Sheet is a real possibility - an event that would definitely throw a Younger Dryas wrench into the Gulf Stream.
Read the entire article at:
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/101005EB.shtml
The Erosion of Environmental Policy
By Erica Rosenberg
The Los Angeles Times
Wednesday 05 October 2005
. . . the House is about to consider how to "modernize" the act, but based on what the White House and Congress have already done, it's clear that the agenda isn't so much updating the law as gutting it.
Like other recent campaigns that have hidden environmental assaults under euphemisms - such as the Clear Skies Initiative, which aimed to roll back air pollution controls - the attack on NEPA is being sold as something it isn't: cooperative conservation. . .
Read the entire article at:
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/100505EB.shtml
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