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Climate change is with us. Sea levels are rising, ice is melting, temperatures are increasing, and the consequences are major. This is not “just” about polar bears and pandas anymore, it’s about us humans and our survival. We need to act now and 2009 needs to be remembered as the year the world found an answer to climate change.

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What is climate change?

We know the world is warming, global average temperature has increased by 0.74°C during the past century, with most of that since 1970.

Human-made CO2 is responsible for the vast majority of the warming.

Concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are now almost 40 per cent above those of 200 years ago and emissions to the atmosphere have been rising by more than 2 per cent a year since 2000. This extra greenhouse gas stems overwhelmingly from humans burning fossil fuels and destroying forests, both of which contain carbon, which gets released as CO2 into the atmosphere. ...Read more...

We need to stay below 2°C

We are actually very close to tipping points in the world’s climate system.

Once a tipping point has been reached a feedback process takes over and it would be nearly impossible to slow it down.

Scientists believe that such tipping points could be for example the physical break up of landbound Greenland, the massive release of methane trapped in the permafrost, the die-back of the Amazon rainforest from heat, drought, and fires, the slowing down of the Northern Atlantic circulation etc. ...Read more...

But it’s not too late to act!

If we act now, if we address emissions now, we can avoid the worst case scenarios in the future.

The main goal for the world must be to cut down the emission of gas that pollutes the atmosphere and destroys the climate. ...Read more...

What will happen in Dec 09 in Copenhagen and why is it so important?

We need to agree how to fight climate change. Now. This year.

In December this year, Governments who have signed up to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will meet in Copenhagen, Denmark to agree on a new global climate deal aimed at protecting the future of our planet... Negotiations are already in full swing. ...Read more...

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How has climate change affected you or your country in the last years?
What are YOU prepared to do to stop climate change?
What should be included in the new international climate deal?

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Giuliano B..

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me pueden explicar algo por favor ...

Posted on 20 Nov 2009 02:55

me pueden explicar algo?? por favor... con la economia mundial actual... podemos revertir esta situación y que podemos hacer las personas par concienciar a la población...?? Por que realmente estoy asustado con la situación actual...

Aqui en Paraguay ya an muerto mas de 5000 vacas a causa del calentamiento g...

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Allan

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CONCIENCIA EN EL CAMPO

Posted on 19 Nov 2009 17:39

En mi país se ve mucho el tema de la migración, pero no sólo de Ecuador para afuera, sino también internamente. Personas de áreas rurales a los que llamaremos compesinos (con orgullo, por que llevo su legado) migran a las ciudades más grandes en busca de mejores condiciones económicas. Pero los campesinos no sólo traen sus ganas de p...

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moderator

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We are currently taking about climate change!

Posted on 19 Nov 2009 15:19

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Please try to stay on subject.. There have been quite a few posts lately on the need to stop wars. It is of course a very important subject, but it is not what we want to talk about on connect2earth.

Please refrain from starting and participating in discussions not related to climate change! Many thanks in advance.

hurley891

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Couldnt agree more....

Posted on 19 Nov 2009 13:04

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I strongly agree with the idea of portraying the problems of climate change to the public in a more user friendly matter. I am studying for a degree in environmental conservation and im currently in my third year.After three yearsI am almost sick to death of reading these 'targets' laid out by politicians changing from place to place and orga...

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hurley891

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Economic growth and climate change

Posted on 19 Nov 2009 12:44

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The fact is, economic growth can actually be accelerated with climate change. The current economic climate has meant businesses and industry are suffering. All around the world global GDP is reducing in some way or another. The idea that meeting reduction targets of CO2 will slow down the economy down is not founded. Building an infrastructur...

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Did you know that?

Sea levels rise on average 1 cm every 3 years
11 warmest years globally since 1856 have occurred in the last 15 years
The Arctic has warmed at around twice the rate as the rest of the planet
Arctic sea ice could disappear altogether during the summer by the second half of this century
Deforestation represents about one fifth of current greenhouse gases emissions
1 in 6 countries faces food shortages each year because of severe droughts that could become semi-permanent under climate change