I want to be part of the solution - BBC

Gore Launches Ambitious Advocacy Campaign on Climate
By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 31, 2008; Page A04

Former vice president Al Gore will launch a three-year, $300 million campaign Wednesday aimed at mobilizing Americans to push for aggressive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, a move that ranks as one of the most ambitious and costly public advocacy campaigns in U.S. history.

The Alliance for Climate Protection's "we" campaign will employ online organizing and television advertisements on shows ranging from "American Idol" to "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." It highlights the extent to which Americans' growing awareness of global warming has yet to translate into national policy changes, Gore said in an hour-long phone interview last week. He said the campaign, which Gore is helping to fund, was undertaken in large part because of his fear that U.S. lawmakers are unwilling to curb the human-generated emissions linked to climate change.
Link:
http://www.wecansolveit.org/content/pages/78/

BBC Climate Change Website
Plenty of information about climate change, including television programmes about the subject
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/portal/climate_change/default.stm
and
http://www.climateprediction.net/
Gives you the chance to be involved in the largest simulation of global climate change ever conducted
http://www.climateprediction.net/versions/DE/index.php

Oxford University Centre For the Environment
Includes examples of current UK climate change research
http://www.ouce.ox.ac.uk/

Real Climate
A climate science commentary site written by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists
http://www.realclimate.org/

United Nations Environment Programme, Java Climate Model
The model that was used to provide much of the data in the game. You can try out different future climate scenarios and look at the outcome in terms of temperature, GDP etc.
http://climatechange.unep.net

ClimateWire
A website detailing climate-related news from around the world
http://www.rtcc.org/

The Ice-age is coming - Sleeping giants
Sleeping giants - The Ice-age is coming
What happens when the large Ice sheets wake up?
http://climatechange-klimawandel.blogspot.com/

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[FundoElCoco]

Aufwendige Fernsehspots und eine 300-Millionen-Dollar-Kampagne - so will Al Gore Amerikas Politiker zum Klimaschutz bewegen. Seinen Vorstoß orchestriert der Friedensnobelpreisträger wie einen Wahlkampf.

Spiegel online

[FundoElCoco]

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[christiangeo]

Solving global warming isn't only about installing majestic wind turbines and glistening solar energy systems in the desert. One of the cheapest, most effective, and safest ways to reduce global warming pollution is to increase our energy efficiency. In fact, by using energy efficiency technologies and today's know-how, we could cut our global warming pollution by a third.

[christiangeo]

Climate change could cause severe crop losses in South Asia and southern Africa over the next 20 years, a study in the journal Science says.

BBC London

[stedav]

Wel not exactly, the common misconception about attempting to keep production within a home country is that it is nationalistic. In fact, it is not at all, it is an attempt to reduce the environmental impact of trade and shipping. If one can purchase a product in New York, that is produced say in New Jersey, the impact of transporting that product is far less than say the impact of transporting it from China or Taiwan. Global trade has become to instituted, it is sad to see this misconception.

[buddyboyofcanada]

There immediate ways to solve the problems but it will take drastic action. Wecansolveitorg is not one of them nor Climate Protection Al Gore.

We Can Solve It recruits global memberships and donations but refuses to allow any products on their website unless it is made in the USA. That's not global thinking that is nationalism which is what got us into the shit world we are now facing. Your trust is too willing not to see through the mist of deception.

[oilcrash1]

If you can't talk about peak oil then you are lying to people

oilcrash dot com

[superluckyricePRO]

If American wants to become more energy efficient, it's going to take more than campaigns, scientific research, and advocacy programs. It's going to require a change of lifestyle. How can the idea of being environmental stewards compete with a life filled luxuries and meaningless pleasures?