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Three Approaches to Engaging U.S. Climate Deniers

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Richard Matthews | 7 Comments

How do we reach the large minority of Americans that continue to resist the facts about climate change? One way to encourage behavior change may be to work within the belief system of climate deniers. We may even need to employ a communications strategy that ignores climate change altogether. There are a significant number of Americans who are not acting to…

The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere today is roughly 390 parts per million (ppm), well above the 275 ppm it was before we started pumping pollution skyward during the Industrial Revolution. Climate scientists and green leaders today agree that 350 ppm would be a tolerable upper limit.

EarthTalk: Atmospheric CO2 – Is it Too Late Anyway?

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Earth Talk | 0 Comments

EarthTalk® is a weekly environmental column made available to our readers from the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: I read that CO2 in our atmosphere is now more than 300 parts per million. Doesn’t this mean that we’re too late to avoid the worst impacts of climate change? — Karl Bren, Richmond, VA Actually the amount of carbon…

We face imminent tipping points if we fail to address climate change, leaving an unknown world for those that follow in our footsteps

Building Support for Action on Climate Change Before We Reach Tipping Points

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Richard Matthews | 0 Comments

We need to take aim at those who are environmentally indifferent and hit them with an effective call to action. If climate advocacy is to succeed, we must do more than regurgitate the same tired rhetoric, we must work on a targeted message that encourages action. While a growing number of people accept the facts about our environment, inaction threatens…

Enviro News Wrap: How Solar Survives a Changing Market; Koch and the Tar Sands; Sea Level Rise; Military Prepares for Global Warming, and more…

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Anders Hellum-Alexander | 0 Comments

GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up and comments on the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week: Sea level rise may not be as immediately bad as some models suggest (but it will still be bad): a new study projects that sea level will not rise by 2 meters in the next 40 years, but it will most likely rise…

Is the deal struck in the final marathon session at COP17 producing the Durban Platform too little, too late?

Is the Agreement in Durban Enough to Contain Climate Change?

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Richard Matthews | 0 Comments

The participants at the U.N. sponsored COP17 climate change talks in Durban, South Africa, managed to come to an agreement on a package of measures that will eventually force all the world’s polluters to take legally binding action. One of the most significant elements of the deal concerns a replacement for the soon to expire Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto protocol is…

President Obama should focus on creating green jobs and supporting environmental regulation. Jobs and a healthy environment are not mutually exclusive

Obama Can Regulate the Environment and Create Green Jobs

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Richard Matthews | 3 Comments

As U.S. President Barack Obama prepares to unveil his jobs and economic plan, his popularity is at an all-time low. Support from the President’s base has been eroded by the two week long protest against the Keystone XL pipeline and profound disappointment about the abandonment of stricter ozone regulations. From the end of August to the beginning of September, a total of 1,252 protesters were arrested in front of the White House for opposing the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline….

James Hansen, Daryl Hannah Among Demonstrators Arrested for Protesting Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

Posted on June 24, 2009 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

Climatologist James Hansen and actress Daryl Hannah were among those arrested yesterday for protesting mountaintop removal strip mining in West Virginia