- Global warming and airflow changes ’caused US and EU heatwaves’ (February 26, 2013)
- Climate Change a Bigger Extinction Threat than Asteroid Strikes (February 15, 2013)
- Wolverines threatened by global warming (February 2, 2013)
- The Climate Change Endgame (January 21, 2013)
- Poachers Kill 11 Elephants in Worst Kenyan Attack (January 7, 2013)
- Nearly Every Coral Reef Could be Dying by 2100 (December 21, 2012)
- 2012: Top Ten Signs of a Warming World (December 17, 2012)
- Arctic sea ice area larger than the US melted this year (November 29, 2012)
- Locals to Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro for Rhinos (November 22, 2012)
- GenConnect Live Q&A: ‘Green Girls’ to Climb Mount Kilimanjaro for Rhinos (November 19, 2012)
- Part-time Aspenite, other eco-minded women set sights on Kilimanjaro (November 17, 2012)
- Climate Change Forecast Spells Doom For Bamboo, Panda Bears (November 12, 2012)
- Climbing for a Cause (November 4, 2012)
- 12-Year-Old Climbs for Conservation (November 2, 2012)
- Middleburg girl vows to climb Mount Kilimanjaro (November 1, 2012)
- Cost to Prevent All Future Extinctions: $11 per Person? (October 18, 2012)
- Kilimanjaro Kid - Taylor Justice (October 12, 2012)
- World Rhino Day: Facts and Fiction About Rhino Horn Trade (September 21, 2012)
- Middleburg Girl Vows to Tackle Kilimanjaro (September 7, 2012)
- Elephants Dying in Epic Frenzy as Ivory Fuels Wars and Profits (September 3, 2012)
- Arctic ice melts to record low: US researchers (August 27, 2012)
- Parasites may get nastier with climate swings (August 13, 2012)
- Green Girls Climb Mount Kilimanjaro for Conservation (The Washington Times, July 6, 2012)
- Lonesome George, last-of-his-kind Galapagos tortoise, dies (June 25, 2012)
- 81 Percent Reduction in the number of Emperor Penguins by 2100 (June 21, 2012)
- Earth may be near tipping point, scientists warn (June 8, 2012)
- Does species die-off speed climate change? (May 4, 2012)
- Scientists worry that warming seas may be harming the endangered right whale (April 30, 2012)
- Slaughter of rhinos at record high, poaching could lead to extinction by 2025 (April 29, 2012)
- As Threats to Biodiversity Grow, Can We Save World’s Species? (April 19, 2012)
- Demise of Large Animals Caused by Both Man and Climate Change (March 5, 2012)
- Arctic Climate Change ‘to Spark Domino Effect’ (January 31, 2012)
- Biodiversity Crisis: Habitat Loss and Climate Change Causing 6th Mass Extinction (January 21, 2012)
- Climate Change Models May Underestimate Extinction, Study Shows (January 4, 2012)
- Farewell the Western Black Rhino (January 2, 2012)
- Elephant poaching: ‘Record year’ for ivory seizures (December 29, 2011)
- Rare Malaysian rhino gets new mate to save species (December 27, 2011)
- Climate change may modify one-half of Earth’s plants (December 15, 2011)
- Mass extinction: Humans could join list of threatened species (November 25, 2011)
- Amphibians facing ‘terrifying’ rate of extinction (November 16, 2011)
- Another Rhino Species Gone, One in Four Mammal Species at Risk, Report Finds (November 10, 2011)
- Climate Skeptic Sponsors New Climate Study, Confirms ‘Global Warming Is Real’ (November 6, 2011)
- Javan rhino ‘poached to extinction’ in Vietnam (October 25, 2011)
- Climate change is shrinking species, raising sea levels (October 18, 2011)
- Walruses suffer from similar disease afflicting Alaska ringed seals (October 14, 2011)
- Rhino killings surge on S.Africa’s private reserves (August 25, 2011)
- Climate change driving species out of habitats much faster than expected (August 18, 2011)
- ‘The Cove’ Director’s Next Eco-Thriller (August 17, 2011)
- AREDAY opens with call to greenies to toughen up (August 19, 2011)
- Critters moving away from global warming faster (August 18, 2011)
- Climate Change Is Here Now (August 17, 2011)
- It’s Official: Whitebark Pine Trees are Endangered by Climate Change (July 17, 2011)
- Climate change could kill one in 10 species by end of the century (July 12, 2011)
- Hold the Champagne: Highway to Split Serengeti After All? (June 28, 2011)
- Climate change is endangering the Polar Bears, court rules (July 11, 2011)
- Endangered Species: The Environmental Issue for 2012 (June 28, 2011)
- Ocean life on the brink of mass extinctions: study (June 21, 2011)
- SOS on fast disappearing species (June 18, 2011)
- Warning issued on biodiversity as millions of Queensland birds face death row (June 13, 2011)
- Australia’s Kakadu wetlands ‘under climate threat’ (June 2, 2011)
- Habitat Loss and Climate Change Imperil Koala (May 29, 2011)
- Ocean chemisty said threatening to abalone (May 25, 2011)
- Europe faces extinction of many species, EU says (May 16, 2011)
- Puffin under threat, says birdwatch body (May 13, 2011)
- Rising temperatures put penguins on thin ice (May 2, 2011)
- The end of the world as we know it (April 28, 2011)
- Climate Change Spells Extinction for a Mountain Species, Research Shows (April 28, 2011)
- Costner, AREDAY partner for BP spill relief (April 23, 2011)
- Serengeti highway threatens wildebeest migration (March 27, 2011)
- Young penguins dying due to lack of food: Study (April 13, 2011)
- Climate change ‘poses threat to caribou’ (April 11, 2011)
- Multitude of Species Face Climate Threat (April 6, 2011)
- Climate Change Has Huge Effect On Birdlife (March 24, 2011)
- King crabs invade Antarctica (March 21, 2011)
- Andes Mountain hummingbirds will lose habitat, risk extinction, as climate warms (March 14, 2011)
- Biologist: Global warming could devastate wildlife (March 11, 2011)
- Great white shark population lower than previously believed (March 11, 2011)
- UN alarmed at huge decline in bee numbers (March 10, 2011)
- Loss of plant diversity ‘disrupting Earth’s life-support systems’ (March 8, 2011)
- Study foresees a rapid and widespread extinction of species (March 7, 2011)
- Without Intervention, Lions Heading For Extinction (March 2, 2011)
- Al Gore: “The Hard Right or the Easy Wrong?”
by Ginna Kelly – the Huffington Post, February 19, 2011
Yesterday I attended the symposium “Forests at Risk: Climate Change and the Future of the American West,” organized by the non-profit For the Forest in Aspen, Colorado.
The educational symposium included distinguished scientists from around the United States and Canada to explore the critical connection between forest health and climate change. Al Gore, former vice president to the United States, was the keynote speaker and concluded the symposium with a call to action. “There is one choice in life we face over and over again — the hard right or the easy wrong.”
Al Gore, Former Vice President of the United States
Action on climate change is hard. There is nothing easy about it. Not only do we have to replace light-bulbs and strive to eat local, but we must change entire laws and policies.
We tend to act on climate change when it affects our backyard. In Colorado, 100,000 trees are lost each day to the bark beetle epidemic and we now know that climate change is a major factor. Colder winters traditionally killed the beetle, but now the beetle is sweeping across the region. Since 1997, the Bark Beetle has destroyed 41 million acres in the west.
One solution to climate change is putting a price on carbon. Putting a price on carbon will send signals to the market that will trigger an entire new energy system. While we sit back and debate whether to tax carbon or develop a clean energy standard, many countries around the world like China, Spain, and Germany are acting right now. What is more radical? Doubling the size of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over the next few years or enacting conservation tools to reduce it?
If you focus on a clean energy policy, it is possible to achieve emissions reductions. For example, the State of Colorado has a 30% renewable energy standard. As a nation, this is very achievable, but it will take political will. Even in the worse recession, Governor Ritter proved that Colorado could create jobs in a clean energy economy.
Ginna interviews Former Governor Ritter of Colorado
Al Gore made it clear that not only is climate change an economic, national security, and environmental issue, but a moral issue. If we want to leave a healthy and livable earth to our children, then climate change becomes a moral issue. In addition, our ability to adapt to climate change is very much a function of the wealth and standard of living around the rest of the world. Letting nature just work it out is a possibility, but millions of people around the world will pay the price. In the past year, we have seen flooding disasters in Pakistan and massive forest fires in Russia. I am personally very uncomfortable with just letting nature take its course. Human life will suffer.
As Linda Joyce, a Quantitative Ecologist for the U.S. Forest Service stated most eloquently, “Rather than thinking about climate change as a problem, may we envision this as a puzzle.” We each have a piece of this puzzle to solve. Let’s figure it out.
- Coral Reefs May Be Gone by 2050: Study (Feb-25-2011)
- 50 million ‘environmental refugees’ by 2020, experts say (Feb-22-2011)
- Al Gore brings global warming fight to Aspen (Feb-19-2011)
- Climate Change Will Lead to the Extinction of Coral Reef Fish (Feb-16-2011)
- Polar bear births could plummet due to climate change (Feb-9-2011)
- Climate change keenly felt in Alaska’s national parks (Feb-12-2011)
- Wolverines Threatened by Climate Change, Earlier Springs (Feb-7-2011)
- Climate risk ‘to one million species’ (Feb-5-2011)
- Complacency over deforestation pushes the orangutan closer to extinction (Feb-2-2011)
- Polar bear’s 9-day swim shows impact of ice melt (Feb-2-2011)
- Turtle Populations Affected by Climate, Habitat Loss and Overexploitation
- Oysters disappearing worldwide: Study (Feb-3-2011)
- After the birds vanish, plants are the next to go (Feb-3-2011)
- Climate Change Threatens Many Tree Species (Jan-24-2011)
- Bees in freefall as study shows sharp U.S. decline (Jan-3-2011)
- U.N. report: Eco-systems at ‘tipping point’ (May-10-2010)
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