Mindblowing Video by Moms Against Climate Change
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Someone just sent me on of the best videos on climate action I've seen to date.
As they say in the video, if our children knew that our world's leaders were not taking the action they need to take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, they would rise up. After all it is their future.
Enjoy:
Kevin Grandia is the researcher behind a new book out last week called Climate Cover Up. Help stop the misinformation being spread on climate change and pick up a copy of Climate Cover Up today!
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It is arrogant to think science knows all the factors for climate change. We have has satellites for 40 years. Humans have been around for quite a bit longer than that. The industrial age started long before we could accurately measure temperature. How much does science know about sun spots? Not much. Science keeps thinking this goes extinck but then they find them.
Researchers Uncover Frog Species Thought To Be Extinct.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1551727/researchers_uncover_frog_species_thought_to_be_extinct/
Welcome Back: Two Species Thought Extinct
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/10/welcome_back_tw.php
Kevin, who's going to tell those cute little bastards they've been targeted for depopulation?
If not those children, but their children for sure, will be fighting for their very survival.
Our glaciers are a source of drinking water, they are dying, this is an immediate threat. We won't have to wait a few generations to see the effects, it is our children who will suffer.
When we figure out how to create a sustainable economy without ridiculous levels of consumerism, we'll be many steps forward in not having old-way corporations crush innovation to protect their profit base, making the earth sick (and us on it!) in the process.
Reading about Stan Meyer's death the day after he signed a deal with the DoD for a research facility for his water-powered car reminded me of when the Big 3 automakers crushed Tucker.
I've been thinking a lot about the paradigm shift we need to make in how we do business and run an economy. We could be so much further along and in a better way now if it weren't for insane greed.
yes, lets throw in some kittens too... these kids have no idea what it is their moms are concerned about. I'm all for climate change action but against turning it into an ideological war. Using kids as proxies is just as inefficient and infuriating to the climate change naysayers as using kids in anti-abortion ads is to abortion proponents.
We have a little more than a decade to make substantial change or we're dead.
Blah blah, panic is nonsense. We will survive and need not replace intelligence with silly doomsday scenarios.
I agree with Kaviraj. I'm sorry, but we will still be here in 10 years, and the panic-button pushers will be the ones with egg on their face when we're still here after 50. Just do your thing to help, don't exaggerate and fear-monger.
PT Barnum said it "A sucker is born every minute".
Who told these kids climate ever was stable? Climate has always been changing, just like whether but on a longer time scale.
Johny can't read
Johny can't be taught to think for themselves
Like George Carlin said .... It's all BS and it's bad for you
The climate is quite stable -- until you push it too hard.
29% of Americans do not understand that the Earth goes around the Sun (http://science.drvinson.net/polls). That 29% are unfortunately unlikely to understand the following either:
1: Short-term statistical variability does not undermine the significance of long term statistical trends.
2: The past several years have all been amongst the warmest years since direct temperature measurements have been recorded.
3. The mean global temperature has also been increasing over this period.
4. That increase in the mean global temperature means there is an increased overall energy in the earth-atmosphere system, which can and will manifest itself in more extreme weather, both hotter and colder.
5. By only looking at atmospheric temperatures one is ignoring 97% of where the increased energy is going in the earth-atmosphere system: 90% goes into the oceans, and 7% goes into melting ice. Related to that, during a La Nina for example the upwelling of cold water in the eastern Pacific soaks up heat from the atmosphere.
More on point #5 here:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14527-climate-myths-global-warming-stopped-in-1998.html?full=true
Regulating CO2 (aka plant food) does not seem to be a very good use of time.
Some things required to continue living are just too much trouble.
'Yeah!" said Joe the Pool Cleaner. "And by the same token water (aka people liquid) can't cause problems for the environmental or be a threat to humans either!"
Tragically, later that day Joe the Pool Cleaner died in a drowning incident.
Who are protesting to anyway? Isn't climate change is a constant natural event?
as is species extinction, unless the species (humans) does not want to become extinct
Some seem surprisingly amenable to the transition.
Perhaps if you lift their headphones and yell it again ...
The climate is of course always changing. What it doesn't always do is what it's doing now - a rapid reversal from a 2,000 year general, relatively slow cooling trend to a rapid general warming trend since the dawn of the fossil fuel era.
I wouldn't call this video "mindblowing" but, it is a good one.
By the way - in the US the cops would probably shoot the kids.
To each his own I guess.
I'm sure in your world of assumptions and hate (yea, it's hate when you assume the worst of the people who are ready to die to keep you safe), what you say is true, but here in realityville, not so much. This treehugging, vegetarian, lesbian with a badge disagrees with you.
If you're not going to fix climate change then you might as well shoot the kids.
As long as they can run the xbox off solar or wind, everything will be ok.
Not the most poignant video ever, and the message is still there. We are in complete denial about how sick the earth really is. It's more than about climate change. Here's a list of environmental problems the earth is facing: global warming, acid rain, ozone depletion, air pollution, urban smog, water contamination and depletion, deforestation, wet land loss, decreasing biodiversity, toxic and radioactive waste, and contamination from industrial accidents. This week I worked with fifth graders on planting an organic garden. Kids get it. Too bad adults don't.
I think most people 'get it'. It's just a matter of process. It took 300 years for us to get to this point, it's going to take us a bit of time to get us out. There is no magic wand.
We don't have a bit of time to waste.
This is a good point. I've been looking at it from a research perspective: What would speed up behavior change and activism? The psychology research is concluding that people are overwhelmed and frightened and so they are immobilized. So how to deal with fear and overwhelm?
you forgot animal and plant extinction.....massive weather changes resulting in famines, billions displaced, massive droughts from the holes in the ozone, we will lose Hawaii, Pacific islands, the Maldives, Florida & Ca. coasts to name a few......and then the methane gases will be released from the permafrost making the air to toxic to breathe and thereby ending life as we know it.
Yes, even the Global deniers won't survive this one.
Another panic maker with doomsday scenarios. Get your @ss in gear and do something positive. Ride your bike. Separate your garbage. Use energy-efficient lightbulbs. Throw out the fridge - you don't need it when you buy fresh. You can think about some more affirmative ACTION yourself.
you have quite the list! I think the problem with adults is the wrong emphasis environmentalists put on the matter. They are like insurance agents that say your car will be smashed, stolen, incinerated and stalled if you don't pay a higher premium... and how many people would care and buy that? on the other hand most people react violently to a car being scratched which is a much smaller event on the big scale... For example, dying out of the Black Forest which is a national treasure in Germany sent shock waves through that society no amount of ozone holes and acid rains some-where-out-there could produce. Just make people realize that the environment is THEIR treasure instead of trying to convince them to sacrifice THEIR benefit for the sake of whatever.
You're right. Bringing it closer to home may make a difference. "Would you trash your mother?"
Bernays would be proud.
Most heart-breaking video ever? Eh, not as much as that kitten one on youtube.
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