Blog Action Day: Your chance to leave a legacy
Blog Action Day on Climate Change is today! And while we all can't win a Nobel Peace Prize for our efforts, we can still do our part.
Blog Action Day happens every October 15, and unites the world's bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance.
From Bali to Poznan, we've been blogging about climate change for a while now. In that time, we've joined forces with other like-minded organizations, under the tcktcktck banner, to raise our collective voices. Through videos, offline stunts, and online petitions, we're shouting about the urgent need for everyone to join together.
People from around the world are holding climate hearings, to document how climate change is affecting their lives, and what they are doing to adapt to the new reality of a warmer planet.
Celebrities are singing about it, taking photos, and making videos about how it's time to act on climate change.
Knowing that there are a few key people who negotiate to make the decisions for most of the rest of us, we're following these policy makers, in an effort make the process of agreeing a new climate deal more transparent. The goal, of course, it to get them to create an ambitious, fair and binding new post-Kyoto climate deal in Copenhagen.
While we can't now necessarily blame all natural disasters on climate change, erratic weather patterns take the heaviest toll on the poor around the planet -- seventy-five percent of poor people rely on agriculture for their livelihoods.
So please join us today, and blog (or tweet!) about climate change. Sign our climate petition. Help us leave a legacy of which we can be proud.
Comments
Falling, not rising
Your battle-cry to the People to rise up in a sort of crusade against global warming is a bit hysterical. People did exactly the same thing in medieval times about the appearance of comets, believing them to harbinger the end of the world. Your statements sound very similar. They are unscientific and emotional. The majority of scientists do NOT accept the theory of AGW because the majority of scientists understand the chemical equation:
C(fossil fuel) + O2(air) = CO2 + H2O + Heat (Hopefully you accept this equation)
You therefore must accept this chemical reaction occurring simultaneously:
CO2 + H2O + sunlight = C6-H12-O6(biomass) + O2. ( photoautotrophic growth)
Therefore, the only relevant question regarding AGW, is to ask which chemical reaction taking place is returning the greater volume of gas to the atmosphere. Is it combustion, respiration, decomposition (plus other inorganic redox reactions), or photoautropic growth of all types which consumes CO2 and produces Oxygen?
Air-breathing plants plus aquatic carbon-fixing phytoplankton produce about 150,000,000,000 tonnes of biomass every year. This is a huge mass but this includes everything that grows across the whole planet including the oceans. To complete this photoautropic activity, living matter has to sequester about 470 billion tons of CO2 annually from the atmosphere to produce this amount of biomass. Of this, about 10% of the CO2 (47 billion tonnes), is permanently lost to the atmosphere due to the creation of irreducible biomass and carboniferous deposition. Add to this the 4 billion tons of organic-based waste which is buried in landfill sites around the world, (representing approx 12 billion tons of CO2), gives a total loss to the atmosphere of 59 billion tons of CO2. Since the declared total amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere worldwide is 29 billion tons (US Energy Information Administration) leaves a 30 billion ton shortfall of CO2 in the atmosphere. Your AGW prognostications has to be wrong. Even at a very basic level, the imagined rise in CO2 for any industrialised country would be offset by the mere waste (80% carbon) that’s permanently captured when buried in landfill sites.
This is a pretty terrible
This is a pretty terrible question. What plant would evolve away from
the most efficient way to produce energy? There should be a 'none of
the above' because evolution is driven by environmental advantage. What about the air separation plants?
This is a brilliant idea,
This is a brilliant idea, getting thousands of blog owners to post articles and talk about the environment and green issues on the same day. This could turn into a major awareness raising event and would certainly generate a massive fuss all over the world. Such an event could be used to raise awareness about the danger of polluting our planet or even raise funds for environmental programs.
change
One way is to change the way to make agriculture. We should focus to protect the world and get fresh air
Sounds like a great idea but
Sounds like a great idea but I think we need to do even more. The naysers seem to be getting louder and unbelievably some people do not believe in climate change, we need to know how to fight this atitude.. Their habitat would have to be completely destroyed before they would give it any credence. Our efforts should be focused on the US and China, we need to make it cool to look after the planet. If we win over the youth we will make a positive impact.
Countries development depend
Countries development depend on agricultural development.
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I fell bad for not blogging about this envoronmental issue. Hopefully, this post will inspire other bloggers (including me) to take responsibility to save the world.
his could turn into a major
his could turn into a major awareness raising event and would certainly
generate a massive fuss all over the world. Such an event could be used
to raise awareness about the danger of polluting our planet or even
raise funds for environmental programs.
The most important
The most important environmental conference of the decade will take place in Copenhagen in December. Debatewise, an online debating website, in
conjunction with The British Council and IDEA, calls on everyone who
understands the importance of the summit to take their place on the Global
Youth Panel.
Manu | Thanks for sharing.
Promoting vegetarianism maybe
Promoting vegetarianism maybe one of the key solution as it helps in
reducing the amount of livestocks demanding for food and produces
wastes.