REDUCE GLOBAL WARMING
(Last Edited 10/18/08)

The Kyoto Protocol imposes limits on emissions of greenhouse gases that scientists blame for increasing world temperatures. President Bush decided to abandon the Protocol and any serious international negotiations on the matter in March 2001. That unilateral abandonment leaves the world to wonder why the nation that contributes the most greenhouse gas emissions to the world atmosphere refuses to accept responsibility for these emissions and refuses to cooperate with the international community to curb the global warming threat.

As of October, 2008, 181 countries had committed to abide by the Kyoto Protocol and 15 of the 18 original European Union Countries were on track to meet commitments. The US and Vatican City are still not committed, along with 14 other nations including the Palestinian Authority, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Somalia, and Zimbabwe. One might expect more moral leadership from some of those countries than others.

For a smashing (10 minute) online video on global warming, click here. (You will need cable or dsl to see this. So if you don't have it, try connecting at your local library.)

The Council on Foreign Relations features several awesome interactive videos on Crisis Guide: Climate Change

Policymakers need to listen to what Montana’s scientists tell us about climate change partially caused by energy generation. They tell how the 150 Glaciers that we had in our park a century and a half ago have dwindled to 26 today. And because of global warming, glaciers I hiked to in Boy Scouts all will be gone in 25 years. If we don’t act now to reverse that, you can take the family vacation to “Used-to-be Glacier Park.”

You can reach perhaps the best websites on global warming by clicking below:

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Click here http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3210/03.html to see a PBS NOVA report (you will need cable or DSL) on the world’s fastest moving glacier, the Jakobshavn in Greenland, which is over 4 miles wide and a 1000 feet thick. It has dumped 8 miles of ice into the ocean in the last five years. Instead of moving at a rate of 10 inches a day, it has started to move at a rate of 113 feet a day. The cause? Fossil fuel burning has increased Greenland’s winter temperature by 6 degrees Celsuis in last 15 years. (Summer temperatures up 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius.) The NOVA segment explains the mechanics of the glacial movement.

Reputable scientists predict that as the Greenland Icecap melts, we will see up to a 23 foot sea level rise; wiping out large amounts of Florida, Louisiana, and other low lying land in the world.

The Heat is Online . (Click on the heat is on page for more when you get there.) (Ross Gelbspan's seminal site on global warming.)

Al Gore's website on Climate Change

Convincing climate change photos and facts by Gary Braasch (Watch for Gary's books on this site)

Excerpts from National Geographic's September 2004 issue on global warming (This site has convincing pictures. Be sure to check out the text associated with the pictures on the left by clicking on it and surfing in the resulting areas.)

Credible scientific commentary debunking climate change naysayers see www.realclimate.org

PBS report on what 884 mayor representing 80.9 million Americans from every state are doing to achieve Kyoto Protocol limits on greenhouse gases. (The numbers indicated here are current as of 10/17/08. They are much higher than those in the original PBS report because mayors have joined since that report.), For Mayor Greg Nickel's site reporting on mayors that have committed to this challenge.

Ross Gelbspan's criticism of US media for pseudo-balance coverage of the global warming debate

IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) (This site contains peer reviewed scientific papers on global warming. These papers support the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community on the issue.)

Climate Crisis Coalition

Things Citizens Can Do at Gus Speth's "Red Sky at Morning" Website.

IPCC webcast and Report on Carbon Sequestration If it doesn't start, click as instructed.

Solar Cafe http://www.gardenearth.com/ Montana native Steve Corrick's web site on Global Climate Change features humor in "10 Best Things About Global Warming" link.

Leonardo di Caprio's web site and presentation on Global Warming inspired by Thom Hartmann's book, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight whose book agent was Missoula's Steve Corrick.

Chris Mooney May 2005 thorough report in Mother Jones magazine on Exxon Mobil's strategy on global warming

Summary listing of Exxon's tigers in the think-tank

Exxon Secrets.org (Comprehensive detail of the oil giant's $12+ million in funding to "tigers" in their 40 think-tanks touting the fossil fuel industry's claim that global warming does not exist and if it does they did not help cause it.)

US EPA's assessment of global warming impacts on Montana and other states

Mother Jones articles on global warming

Pew Center on Global Climate Change

PBS Scientific America Series "Hot Planet, Cold Comfort" with classroom activities

US EPA web site on global warming

US Global Change Research Program

Scientific article on Sizing Up the Earth’s Glaciers: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/GLIMS/

Scientific article on El Nino: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/ElNino/

MONTANA SPECIFIC ARTICLES:

Scientific article on GLACIER RETREAT IN GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, MONTANA: http://www.nrmsc.usgs.gov/research/glacier_retreat.htm

Selected Graphs from scientific article on temperature rise in Glacier Park, MT. Watson, E., G.T. Pederson, B.H. Luckman, and D.B. Fagre. 2005 (in press). Glacier mass balance in the northern U.S. and Canadian Rockies: paleo-perspectives and 20th century change. In: Ben Orlove, Ellen Wiegandt and Brian Luckman (Eds.), Darkening Peaks: Glacial Retreat in Scientific and Social Context, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. USA.

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