Author: postMigrator

Dear All

Finally I got round to putting three climate change videos I made some  years ago
up on YouTube.

*Climate Change Direct Action Video*
A compilation of British direct action protests against climate change  set to a
dance track. Heart racing stuff. Actions mostly from the late  1990s and early
2000’s including: protests at the Shell Oil AGM, 2000  COP in the Hague, Coventry
Cathedral service for the centenary of the  car, Bjorn Lomborg being pied and lots
more.

*Emissions Statements
*Ordinary people talk about climate change, how they feel about it, and  what they
want to do. This is a great short video for empowering people  to take personal
action. It was made by George Marshall and Roddy  Mansfield using interviews with
people attending the Rising Tide UK  Gathering in 2000 www.risingtide.org.uk

sound problems here. I need to fiddle with it to sort it out

There’s another of my vids-*Cheeky Apocalypse *also there-its worth  watching
this video, made entirely of samples from tv during the heatwave of 2003  shows a
society in total denial of the threat of climate change and its  relation to the war in Iraq-
plus the Cheeky Girls!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVwfy38RFIc

George

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George Marshall,
Director of Projects,
Climate Outreach Information Network,

George Marshall contacts in Wales
Direct 01686 411 080
Mobile 0781 724 1889
E-mail george@coinet.org.uk
The Friary
Pen-Y-Green Rd
Llanidloes
SY18 6PG

Main COIN Office
Old Music Hall, 106-108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JE.
Telephone 01865 403 334
E-mail info@COINet.org.uk
Web: www.COINet.org.uk

COIN is a charitable trust, registration number 1102225. It supports initiatives and
organisations that increase public understanding and awareness of climate change.

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Not new-& not just EPA either: government agencies-whether Depts. of Interior,
Agriculture, Commerce…govt.agencies are rife w/ this garbage-especially when
PAC-backed, pro-ordained “decisions” about things (like land-use or energy issues)
are questioned from within by people just doing their jobs.

Todd Wilkinson published a book in 1998 called “SCIENCE UNDER SIEGE: the Politicans
War Against Nature & Truth” (can’t remember publisher). In it he details the experiences of
scientists-often wimmin & POC-who caught alot of abuse for drawing conclusions contrary
to land-use & pollution-regulation decisions pushed by big industries. Beside racial &
sexist/sexual harassment, these people (& their families) were often anonymously
threatened & stalked as well. In my personal conversations with people working
“within” who were (thought to be) queer-homophobic overtones are also very prevalent (i
don’t recall that Wilkinson discussed that facet).

It would be very revealing to trace the history of the climate change issue back to the ’60s &
uncover any such patterns regarding that issue.

ASW

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“Sir Ian Andrews, second permanent
under-secretary at the UK’s Ministry of Defence,
says: ‘Climate change is potentially the greatest
challenge to security that we face, in terms of
the impact that it could have globally.'”

“Anthony Zinni, a former commander of US forces
in the Middle East, warned: ‘We will pay for this
one way or another. We will pay to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions today, and we’ll have to
take an economic hit of some kind. Or, we will
pay the price later in military terms. And that
will involve human lives. There will be a human
toll.'”
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Financial Times
September 15 2008

At boiling point
By Fiona Harvey

Widespread food shortages in the developing world
resulting from changing weather patterns; disease
outbreaks; mass migration as people abandon farms
because of failing crops; populations fleeing
coastal areas because of sea level rises. Each of
these is a potential byproduct of climate change.

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Published on Saturday, September 13, 2008 by McClatchy Newspapers
Study Finds Recent Global Warming Unprecedented in 1,300 Years

by Renee Schoof

WASHINGTON – A new scientific study adds evidence that temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere fluctuated a bit over time, but that the sharp increase during the past few decades is bigger than anything in at least 1,300 years.
(REUTERS/Denis Sarrazin/Center for Northern Studies/Handout)

The report was published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Its conclusion is that temperature increased and decreased a little over the centuries, but the fluctuations were small enough that the line was roughly flat, like the shaft of a horizontal hockey stick. Then, from about 1980 to now, temperature increased sharply, more than any increase before – like the blade of the hockey stick.

For the past 10 years, climate-change skeptics have been calling the hockey stick bogus. Now the scientists who studied the climate record and produced the original hockey-stick graph have done a new study using more data from more sources – and they got the same pattern.

The new study “establishes further evidence that the recent warming isn’t just part of a typical cycle,” said climatologist Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University.

“Of course, this alone doesn’t establish the cause of that warming – that it must be due to human influences,” Mann said. That’s left to other scientific studies of the climate.

Forces of nature – changes in the output of the sun’s energy and volcanic eruptions – and random variation explain the changes in climate before industrial times, Mann said. But only if human factors are taken into account – particularly the production of long-lasting, heat-trapping gases from burning fossil fuels – can scientists explain the unusually high recent temperature increase, he said.

Mann’s group’s study collected additional data for the centuries before the mid-19th century, when scientists began recording temperatures.

Their previous study depended on tree rings, and some critics said it was not a reliable way to reconstruct past climate over a long period. Mann said that while it’s not always true that tree rings aren’t reliable, his team decided to conduct a new study that didn’t depend on them.

They took data from other natural sources of clues about past climate – corals, ice cores and lake and cave sediments.

“We found we got more or less the same answer,” Mann said. The recent temperature increase is an anomaly over 1,300 years without using tree rings, and for 1,700 years if the tree-ring data are used, the study found.

Scientists have observed a warming of about 0.8 degrees Celsius during the past century. Mann said there was a burst of about 0.3 degrees from about 1900 to 1950. Then, in the 1950s to 1970s, temperatures were flat or showed a slight cooling, because heavy particle pollution, which has a cooling effect, masked the heating effect of greenhouse gases, Mann said.

Another, larger increase of temperature has been recorded in the past 30 years, he said, due largely to the increase of greenhouse gases. Particle pollution was reduced as a result of clean-air laws in the U.S. and other countries.
McClatchy Newspapers 2008

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