Thursday, February 28, 2013

Why Al Gore Believes Gaming Can Stop Climate Change Deniers
“Social networks are the key in helping us move the needle in the right direction…the key is to seed the conversation with reality,” said Gore, from a hotel conference room in Long Beach, California. “Wherever there is an example of denial in the media, we will give everyone that participates the precise scientific answer to the denial in the story.”
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Gore ended his roughly 45-minute presentation on a call to action, saying its “time to win the conversation on personal terms,” making an analogy to the recent groundswell of support in America for gay marriage.

“Two, three, four years ago, nobody would have imagined how gay rights would have transformed this country—it’s so inspiring,” said Gore. “That same conversation phenomenon has to happen on carbon.”
Environmentalists still waiting for Obama to act on climate change | Environment | guardian.co.uk
If anything, Zichal, like other White House officials pressed for details of the president's climate strategy, moved to squash expectations raised by those very same speeches that Obama would indeed take ambitious action to reduce the carbon pollution that causes climate change.

Zichal, when pressed on the time line of Obama's State of the Union ultimatum, seemed to suggest the president might be willing to sit out the two years of this newly elected Congress before making good on his threat to use his executive powers.
OPINION:Leader of global warming awareness movement [McKibben] speaks in Hayward
Three significant numbers were a big part of the author’s presentation on human causes of global warming. First, there is the amount of temperature increase that our civilization can endure before catastrophe changes occur: 2 degrees Celsius.
Climate Change Dispatch - So much for global warming! Four out of the last five winters have been COLDER than average
Soaring gas prices are not the sole reason for our increasing heating bills - four out of the five past winters have been colder than average, the Met Office has revealed.

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