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350 travels 360 on day of climate action
October 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment
By Sommer Saadi and Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
If anyone doubted that there’s a global grassroots movement to fight climate change, they may reconsider after viewing the photos that streamed in this weekend from the International Day of Climate Action.
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Tags: · #350ppm, 350 parts per million, 350.org, demonstrations across the globe, International Day of Climate Action, photos of 350 actions, the number scientists consider safe upper limit
There’s a front moving in, a unified front against climate change
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
I hate confessing to these long-ago memories. But I remember marching against Apartheid. It was a time when we students knew what the term meant, though the rest of the world was still comfortably oblivious, and had become convinced that this problem in South Africa had to be fixed.
Then we marched for divestiture, which was necessary to de-fund the unjust system in South Africa.
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Tags: · #350 ppm, 350 ppm of carbon, 350.org, BarbaraKesslerBlog, International Day of Climate Action
Get ready for an International Day of Climate Action
By Ashley Phillips
Green Right Now
This Saturday is International Day of Climate Action — a chance for everyone to take a stand on behalf of the planet and possibly participate in one of 4,300 actions that are planned in 171 countries.
350.org began the International Day of Climate Action campaign not only to wake up politicians, but wake up the world. The group wants everyone to know about and understand the number 350, which signifies the level many scientists have identified as the safe utmost limit for CO2 in the atmosphere, in parts per million.
Here are a few unique events around the US:
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Tags: · #350ppm, 350 parts per million, 350.org, demonstrate for carbon reductions, International Day of Climate Action, join events for International Day of Climate Action, reduce your carbon imprint, stop carbon pollution
The case for 350 and a call to action
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
In honor of blog action day, so designated by the group Change.org with partners like Greenpeace and 350.org, I found myself explaining the 350 number to my kids on the way to school. As it happens, the teenager already knew about this benchmark, thanks to AP science classes and the [...]
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Tags: · 350, 350.org, BarbaraKesslerBlog, Carbon Dioxide, International Day of Climate Action
350.org gearing up for Copenhagen with Day of Climate Action
September 10th, 2009 · No Comments
(Editor’s note: For the latest development, see environmental activist Bill McKibben’s blog about climate economist Nicholas Stern adopting 350 ppm as the best target level for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.)
By Ashley Phillips
Green Right Now
What is so significant about the number 350? It is the level scientists have identified as the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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Tags: · 350.org, Bill McKibben, carbon dioxide levels, Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, International Day of Climate Action, Nicholas Stern
350.org enjoys the ‘Colbert bump’
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
The global warming group 350.org is touting its new-found fame after founder Bill McKibben appeared on The Colbert Report.
McKibben chatted with the Colb-ster about “350″ — enlightening viewers on the significance of that number and how we’ve got to make that a benchmark if we want to salvage the Earth’s atmosphere.
Today, the group won validation of its goal and its namesake when the United Nation’s top climate scientist said that 350 (alright, it stands for the 350 parts per million of carbon in the air) is a good and appropriate target level for Mother Earth (with healthy humans).
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Tags: · 350.org, BarbaraKesslerBlog, Colbert Report, Ted Kennedy
No math needed: A look at global warming by the numbers
By Laura Elizabeth May
Green Right Now
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One degree Fahrenheit. On average, that’s how much the Earth’s temperature has increased over the past century, according to a report by the EPA. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has predicted that during the 21st century the global temperature will increase by 2-6° C.
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Tags: · 350, 350.org, Barack Obama, cap-and-trade, Congress, EU, global temperatures, hurricane katrina, James Hansen, Polar Bears, Renewable Energy, science, sea ice, The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, Waxman-Markey, Wind energy
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