Climate change alleged "ground zero" is far north Queensland | The Courier-Mail

About 50 environmentalist groups this week collectively urged Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to use the possible [possum not found in all of 20+ hours of spotlighting] extinction as the trigger for far-reaching cuts to carbon emissions.

McKibben: Allegedly The Most Important Number on Earth

Now that we know how far we are past the carbon tipping point, it's time to freak out—and get to work.
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And we have a number—350. The most important number on earth. If the Internet has a cosmic purpose, this could be it—to take that number and spread it everywhere on the planet, so that everyone, even if they knew little else about climate change, understood that it represented a kind of safety, a bulwark against the monsoon turning erratic, the sea rising over their fields, the mosquito spreading up their mountain.