RAdio Ecoshock News: The Climate Mash
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In headlines so big even the Bush Whitehouse can read them, Wilma became the largest hurricane ever recorded. Frightening even from space, Wilma went past the highest Force 5 rating, causing weather experts to speculate that a new Level 6 hurricane status may be needed.
The list of hurricane names for the Americas has been exhausted. By international agreement, there are a limited number of names that are recognizable to both Spanish and English speakers. Only once before, in more than a century of weather recording, have we reached the end of the list. Now we have Tropical Storm Alpha, pulled from a backup list of Greek letters. That's another all-time record. What will it take for Americans, who produce one quarter of all climate warming gases, to wake up?
Here's part of a great pre-Halloween song, from Climatemash dot org.
[excerpt of re-make of "The Monster Mash" - with a message from the original Bobby Picket...]
Despite the nay Sayers in the corporate owned media, there IS an alternative energy industry growing in the United States. You can get regular updates by podcast in "The Watt," a great independent energy news summary from thewatt.com:
[excerpt from The Watt #37]
What is the world doing about it? So far, the best hope is the growing alarm sounded by the scientists who power governments and corporations. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released a report on the possibilities of storing our fossil fuel carbon in the ground, or even in the ocean. A full press conference on the report, Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage, September 26th, 2005, is available on the website at www.ipcc.ch. Or, you can find an edited version with comments, just 19 minutes long, on the home page of Ecoshock.org. That's a free download.
Essentially, the scientists say that capturing the millions of tons of carbon dioxide we produce daily, requires a whole new industry that doesn't exist yet, but could, with years of development, and billions of bucks. Storing carbon dioxide underground would be the best option, using known technology. The scientists have to admit there just isn't enough information about ocean storage to report. Even if we could pump CO2 into the deep ocean, it would surface, releasing our carbon waste for hundreds of years. And it would make the ocean more acidic. Not much of a solution, compared to clean renewables like solar and wind, or even old-fashioned conservation.
Governments will meet at the end of November, in Montreal, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, known by the inappropriate acronym COP. It's inappropriate, because no one is actually arresting climate change, just talking about it. This will be the first meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol now that this international agreement is in force, at least in countries that claim to care about the climate. That doesn't include the United States, or Australia.
About ten thousand participants will attend, plus more thousands of non-profit groups and the media, who will report little, and publish less. None of this is as important as the baby expected by Tom Cruise.
You know, and I know, we are heading into uncharted waters and skies. The climate has been destabilized, and anything might happen. Our leaders, both political and economic, have utterly failed, and we have failed to make even elementary changes to our bloated energy lifestyles.
Here is the plain truth. It starts with you in the morning, when you wake up. Learn to walk again. Sell the gas guzzler. Use mass transit. Ride. Turn off lights behind you. Then, push your government, by high noon, leaving the bigger wheels for dinner. Do it every day, and you may survive the coming night.
Here's a shout out to some of the stations carrying Radio Ecoshock News: Hello WZB9 90.3 FM Boston College radio, CHLY 1010.7 FM in Nanaimo, Canada eh? and net radio stations NHCWX, Radical Radio at radicalradio.org, and radio4all.net.
During Nature's crisis, keep in touch with the best speakers, news and interviews, at www.ecoshock.org, commercial free, no charge, all environment net radio.
In headlines so big even the Bush Whitehouse can read them, Wilma became the largest hurricane ever recorded. Frightening even from space, Wilma went past the highest Force 5 rating, causing weather experts to speculate that a new Level 6 hurricane status may be needed.
The list of hurricane names for the Americas has been exhausted. By international agreement, there are a limited number of names that are recognizable to both Spanish and English speakers. Only once before, in more than a century of weather recording, have we reached the end of the list. Now we have Tropical Storm Alpha, pulled from a backup list of Greek letters. That's another all-time record. What will it take for Americans, who produce one quarter of all climate warming gases, to wake up?
Here's part of a great pre-Halloween song, from Climatemash dot org.
[excerpt of re-make of "The Monster Mash" - with a message from the original Bobby Picket...]
Despite the nay Sayers in the corporate owned media, there IS an alternative energy industry growing in the United States. You can get regular updates by podcast in "The Watt," a great independent energy news summary from thewatt.com:
[excerpt from The Watt #37]
What is the world doing about it? So far, the best hope is the growing alarm sounded by the scientists who power governments and corporations. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released a report on the possibilities of storing our fossil fuel carbon in the ground, or even in the ocean. A full press conference on the report, Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage, September 26th, 2005, is available on the website at www.ipcc.ch. Or, you can find an edited version with comments, just 19 minutes long, on the home page of Ecoshock.org. That's a free download.
Essentially, the scientists say that capturing the millions of tons of carbon dioxide we produce daily, requires a whole new industry that doesn't exist yet, but could, with years of development, and billions of bucks. Storing carbon dioxide underground would be the best option, using known technology. The scientists have to admit there just isn't enough information about ocean storage to report. Even if we could pump CO2 into the deep ocean, it would surface, releasing our carbon waste for hundreds of years. And it would make the ocean more acidic. Not much of a solution, compared to clean renewables like solar and wind, or even old-fashioned conservation.
Governments will meet at the end of November, in Montreal, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, known by the inappropriate acronym COP. It's inappropriate, because no one is actually arresting climate change, just talking about it. This will be the first meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol now that this international agreement is in force, at least in countries that claim to care about the climate. That doesn't include the United States, or Australia.
About ten thousand participants will attend, plus more thousands of non-profit groups and the media, who will report little, and publish less. None of this is as important as the baby expected by Tom Cruise.
You know, and I know, we are heading into uncharted waters and skies. The climate has been destabilized, and anything might happen. Our leaders, both political and economic, have utterly failed, and we have failed to make even elementary changes to our bloated energy lifestyles.
Here is the plain truth. It starts with you in the morning, when you wake up. Learn to walk again. Sell the gas guzzler. Use mass transit. Ride. Turn off lights behind you. Then, push your government, by high noon, leaving the bigger wheels for dinner. Do it every day, and you may survive the coming night.
Here's a shout out to some of the stations carrying Radio Ecoshock News: Hello WZB9 90.3 FM Boston College radio, CHLY 1010.7 FM in Nanaimo, Canada eh? and net radio stations NHCWX, Radical Radio at radicalradio.org, and radio4all.net.
During Nature's crisis, keep in touch with the best speakers, news and interviews, at www.ecoshock.org, commercial free, no charge, all environment net radio.
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