LOCAL EFFORTS
- The Atmosphere Alliance
Nonprofit organization sponsored by Earth Island Institute, dedicated to informing the public of the cause and effects of the Greenhouse and ozone depletion phenomena, as well as political and corporate backlash activities which prevent effective response. The Alliance has also succeeded in launching a "green jobs" program in Olympia modeled after one in Toronto, which will retrofit buildings to reduce energy and water waste.
NATIONAL EFFORTS
- Union of Concerned Scientists
Originally formed by scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, this organization of scientists is concerned with energy use and global environmental issues. This organization has issued a "Warning to humanity", which has been signed by 1670 scientists, including 104 Nobel laureates, as of April 93. The text of this warning includes the following: "A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required, if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated" To do this, "We must bring environmentally damaging activities under control to restore and protect the integrity of the Earth's systems we depend on."... "No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity greatly diminished"
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1991
- Methane Hydrate and Global Warming
1994
Feb
- Sulfate Aerosol and Climate Change
It appears that aerosols, which have a cooling effect, as well as greenhouse gases, which have a warming effect, generated as the
result of human activities, have a significant but very complex effect on world climate. The article
discusses some of the detailed chemistry and physics of aerosol generation.
Feb: Scientific American
- No Global Warming?
In 1991, C02 emissions began to decrease. They coninued to decrease
through the date of this article. Scientists do not understand why.
Science News, 1994, Vol 146
- C02 Increase Boosts Methane Emissions
Increased uptake of C02 by plants in certain environments increases
methane emissions
Sept 24 Science News p. 198
- Consensus Reached on Climate Change Causes
Solar variations and sulfur pollution are too weak to cancel out the
warming influence.
1995
- Global Warming
1997
- The Heat is On
Some of you may have read Ross Gelbspan's book, "The Heat is On: The
High Stakes Battle Over Earth's Threatened Climate." Here is some info
on the book, as well as a link to his HeatIsOn Website.
Sept. 27 Science News
- Satellites Hint Sun is Getting Stronger
A solar energy increase of the size reported by several researchers
would have warmed the earth during the last decade, but its effects
would have been dwarfed by green house warming gasses, which exert
two to three times the warming power, according to James E. Hansen
of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. Further,
the solar energizing has not been supported by all researchers.
1998
Sept 17 Seattle Weekly
- Boeing Company Concurs Global Warming An Important issue
July 10 2000 Seattle Times:
- Climatic Effects of Large Citys
July 2000: From NRDC Air Mail:
- US Mayors Vote To Fight Global Warming
Sept 11 2000: From IGC Econet:
- World Wildlife Fund Reports Warming Threatens one-third of Habitat
Sept 22 2000: Study From Max Planck Institute
- Finds tree farms not a good as old gowth in sequestering CO2
Sept 22 2000: Climate On-Line Action
- Cast your Vote to Slow Global Warming
Nov. 25 2000 New York Times:
- Effort to Cut Warming Lacks Time and Unity
Nov. 26 2000 Seattle Times:
- Global Warming Confrence Collapses
Jan 23 2001: Seattle PI
- Greatest Alarm Yet on Global Warming
Feb. 7 2001 Stanford University Press Release:
- PM2.5 as a contributor to Global Warming
Mar 14 2001: Associated Press
- Bush Defends Backing Off Campaign Pledge
Petition Project
- Web Page: Arguments on the Other Side
Apr 2 2001: Associate Press
- Majority wants greenhouse gases cut, poll shows
Mar 25 2002: AP (Seattle PI)
- Ice Selves Continue to Disintegrate
Feb 22 2004: London Observer: Mark Townsend and Paul Harris
- Pentagon: Climate Change May Lead to Global Catastrophe