One World, One Climate, One Day, One Number: 350

This Saturday at 4000+ events in over 172 countries around the world people will gather to send a message demanding that our leaders address climate change. Led by Bill McKibben and the team at 350.org, the call to action comes as the world's leaders prepare to meet in Copenhagen for COP15 in December to attempt a consensus agreement as a follow up to the Kytoto Protocols and address anthropogenic climate change.

Auckland, New Zealand

This week the EU once again made a dramatic proposal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 90% by 2050, 30% by 2020. This in a clear attempt to move the stalled negotiations forward as times runs out. The US has failed to offer any path forward and the Obama administration has been sending signals that an agreement may not be forthcoming in Copenhagen.

Now is the time for citizens to speak out and demand that leaders from every country agree on a fair and just global climate agreement. The science is conclusive and the threat to not only human health and welfare, but that of all life on Earth is real and increasing. Failure to act now may result in over 1000 years of climate chaos.

The number 350 is the most important number in history. It represents what scientists have determined to be the "safe" level of CO2 concentrations in parts per million (PPM) to maintain a stable climate system. Presently, CO2 concentrations are 390PPM and rising.

The Great Pyramids of Egypt

Everyone can speak out and make a difference this Saturday October 24th and be part of the largest unified call for solutions to the climate crisis in history. Go to 350.org and locate an event near you or sign up and organize one yourself. Every action has meaning no matter how large or small. Add your pictures and voices to the millions of others from the Arctic to Tuvalu. Create the momentum and political space for the world's leaders to take bold aggressive action in December. The time is now and it is yours.



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Comments

[realpolitic]

"National and international science academies and scientific societies have assessed the current scientific opinion, in particular on recent global warming. These assessments have largely followed or endorsed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) position of January 2001 that states:"

"An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system... There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities."

"Since 2007, no scientific body of national or international standing has maintained a dissenting opinion."

[Richard2]

Another significant number is 37. That is the percent of the American people who think that man-made global warming is real. The percent of the public who believe in man-made global warming has shrunk over the past two years.

The Pew Survey and the Financial Times/Harris Poll both indicate an erosion of the support for the belief in man-made global warming.

Perhaps it is time for supporters of AGW to stop trying to connect every single event in the world to "global warming," as a way of trying to prove that it exists. Cold weather, warm weather, less ice, more ice, more rain, less rain, more hurricanes, fewer hurricanes. Colder winters, Warmer winters.
More Tiger Woods victories, fewer Tiger Woods victories.

The public has started to realise that the emperor wears no clothes.

[realpolitic]

Funny how you celebrate ignorance and a misinformed public as a good thing. The scientific is stronger and more resolute than ever as was recently reaffirmed by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, which in 2005 the White House called the "gold standard of objective scientific assessment.".