Tck Tck Tick: Time's a wasting: How to take action on climate change now
Filed under: Green
The U.S. needs to join the world community and take action on climate change. As Wallet Poppers, you can help make that happen by getting involved in a number of excellent programs to get the word out, and also by investigating ways to lesson your own impact on our planet's climate.We need to limit worldwide greenhouse gases and build a clean energy economy so we can find a sustainable solution to our global climate crisis. Leaders will meet in Copenhagen this December to negotiate a global response to climate change. The U.S. is the world leader in greenhouse gas pollution as well as clean energy technology. So it is time for the United States to implement comprehensive clean energy policies to curb emissions.
You can easily take the first step by signing a petition and inviting your friends to sign a petition at tcktcktck to ask world leaders to hammer out a global climate treaty in Copenhagen. You can take similar action at Vote Earth. We have less than a hundred days left to get the word out that it's time for world leaders to take bold and ambitious action and work out a fair agreement on climate action in December 2009.
You also can join people from around the world on the International Day of Climate Action on October 24, 2009. The day is being organized by 350.org, which is an international campaign dedicated to building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis.
You can help spread the word with the Nature Conservancy's Planet Change Project. As part of the project you'll get ideas for how to spread the word on Twitter and Facebook.
You can promote green journalism with Current Green. There you will find video stories you can watch and then promote on your websites and blogs.
You can support the clean energy bill introduced by Sens. John Kerry and Barbara Boxer. The bill mandates steep cuts in global warming pollution; cracks down on old, dirty coal power plants; and ensures that the billions of dollars generated by a cap on global warming pollution are invested in things such as clean technologies, green jobs training, adaptation, and avoided deforestation.
You can also take action one step further and actually change how you live your life. Sign up for the No Impact Experiment. The experiment is a one week climate cleanse. For one week you can find what a positive difference no impact living can make on your life. The no impact experiment offers an extensive how-to manual to make it easy for you to try no impact living. You'll get support online in a NING network, as well as support tips on Twitter, so you don't have to try this experiment on your own.
Each day you'll get a challenge giving you steps to take to live a no impact life. At the end of the day you can talk with others on the no impact blog about your experiences, get ideas from others and provide support. You'll take a brief survey about the day and you can watch a nightly webcast with discussions from experts. After the one week experiment you'll get one more survey and if you think the experience should be shared with others you can become a No Impact Ambassador in your community.
You also should stay up-to-date on the latest news about climate change at Change.org. Stay informed so you know when it's critical to act.
Lita Epstein has written more than 25 books including The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Politics of Oil.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-14-2009 @ 9:54PM
bob said...
humans cannot control the climate its a power takeover
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10-15-2009 @ 2:25AM
Guy Frommas said...
Climate change is a joke. It's all a way to control people. I am the environmental antichrist. That's right I don't recycle! I love tweaking liberals. There is no proof that humans are causing global warming. 30 years ago it was Global Cooling.
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10-15-2009 @ 8:54AM
Sue said...
This is such a hoax, it is a way int world governance, they didn't count on, I do the things I do because it is more economical to do it. That is for me, not for a b&^%$*&*(T carbon footprint. I feel so bad for our children, I have to much to do today to get started. Idiots, all of them, power hungry theives.
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10-15-2009 @ 9:18AM
Guy said...
Why don't we all just put guns to our heads and take REAL action? The "global warming" hoax continues, and Wallet Pop continues to feed the hysteria. The earth is now COOLING off people, not warming. Changes in sun activity is what causes these variations, not humans. These enviro-organizations are nothing more than money sponges, soaking up taxpayer dollars and squeezing it out to their cronies. Wake up people. Ozone depletion, electromagnetic waves, Y2K ... and now global warming .... all just scams to seperate people from their money.
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10-15-2009 @ 9:41AM
Don Hamme said...
Other than not spelling lessen properly the author does not address the 10 years of lower temperatures. Also not addressed is the fact that lower levels of CO 2 will mean less support for plants, like the ones we depend on for food. The children of Africa are still dying because of Rachel Carson's diatribe against DTT which has made life so safer for mosquitoes carrying malaria. Debate is not closed, even if Al Gore will not discuss the errors that the British Courts found in his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth". How can we petition for a tax program that cannot be justified and may be harmful?
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10-15-2009 @ 10:32AM
paulsmathers@aol.com said...
Notice how the enviroprofiteers have changed what they are calling this. In the 60's the fear was Global Cooling. The profiteers were screamking man made ice age. In the 90's and early 21 century they scream Global Warming. Wait, now we are getting cold again. Lets just call it Global Climate Change. If we do this we can claim to be right regardless of which way tempatures move. Kind of like the claim the stimulas bill saved or created X number of jobs. There is no way to justify this so we will just poomo. In other words "PULL IT OUT OF MY ARSE". ALGORE has made billions on the gualibility of the left and stands to make billions more. Even the British High Court has ruled that his "Documentary" was so full of lies and half truths that the only way it can be shown in schools is with a disclaimer telling children it is a work of "FICTION."
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10-15-2009 @ 2:16PM
Debbie said...
Polar Bears are thriving and fatter than ever this year. Due to sea lions in abundance. In the past 11 years, the Earths temp has only gone up .1 degree. And this current era is the same 30 year cycle of ocean currents and will pass again. CO2 emissions in the US are down over 60% since 1992.
Your right, it's a HUGE HOAX and an attempt of more govt takeover.
Al Gore is using this Hoax for income purposes only with absolutely No Proof to back up any of his claims. In Fact, if he were to shut up for a week, CO2 emmissions will drop further.
Fight back, write your reps twice a week.
GOD BLESS AMERICA
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10-15-2009 @ 3:51PM
ron said...
I agree with the comments above that our politicians want to destroy our free enterprise system and tax us into submission under the hoax of global warming. The facts are just the opposite as we are in a 10 year cool down and the polar bear population has increased 5 times in the last 30 years. Al Gore's award is an absolute joke for telling all the lies that he told. Unbelievable to me is that the morons in Washington always state that Global warming is a fact!!!!! Wake up America and see what is happening to our freedoms!
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10-15-2009 @ 6:37PM
John said...
We need to take better care of the Earth, but please stop the Global Climate Crisis hysteria. It's a bunch of BS. Just a way to get us to buy lousy lightbulbs and invest in useless wind turbines.
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10-16-2009 @ 12:10AM
Bill said...
"Political Correctness"=Liberal B.S.
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10-18-2009 @ 8:58PM
Bill said...
The fact that John Kerry and Barbara Boxer are involved tells me the whole thing is a scam.
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10-19-2009 @ 6:45AM
Dianne said...
Go to www.globalclimatescam.com and read about how you can sign a petition against Pres. Obama signing the "cap-and-trade" bill.
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10-24-2009 @ 7:56PM
aabmh said...
What a crock. Scientist worldwide are laughing at these idiots. They think we are so gullible. If we don't get off our azzes and stop this crap, we'll all be at the mercy of these power hungry idiots. And that's all it is. They want our money and they want control over every aspect of our lives. It's time to say enough is enough.
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10-25-2009 @ 8:19AM
Dan Marks said...
Very encouraged that the AOL participants are not the sheeple that the AOL mgmt thinks they are. If there has been ANY correlation between CO2 and atmospheric warming, it was that the CO2 concentrations rose after the warming, not before the warming, and therefore cannot be the cause of the warming. The very fact that they have changed the name of the cause (because words do have meaning) from Global Warming to Climate Change is because the globe isn't actually warming - and it never was due to people. As many of you have noted, the only explanation for the government-driven objectives is for increased government controls upon the populace.
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10-25-2009 @ 10:48AM
Tom said...
Watch this and you will find out what is behind the climate change / global warming scam. This is not a joke. It is a HUGE power grabbing / political scam that is very real and very dangerous. GO HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y70WxQKwmlo
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11-01-2009 @ 9:22AM
Pat said...
More propaganda about a non existant condition that will net our government with lots of money they can give away to other countries while destroying our economy in the process.
This is not news. This should not even be presented as a news story. It should clearly be marked as something else. Where is the petitiion to sign if you don't agree? If you are fair and unbiased, you would have both for and against.
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11-01-2009 @ 7:25PM
David Vincent said...
Barney asked Floyed, whey they call the weather, weather, Floyd resonded, "Weather or Not" Our maker controls the weather. I agree with cleaning everything up, but we are in a temperature decline, not increase.
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11-07-2009 @ 1:28PM
Randy said...
What a bunch of left wing liberal lunacy! The absolute arrogance of anyone to believe mankind is the cause of changes to the climate is almost as disgusting as the boobs like al gore and the "consensus" of taxpayer funded grant seeking alleged scientists ballyhooing the pure BS. In the 1970's it was a bunch of taxpayer supported scientists who cried like chicken little that we were heading to the next ice age.... DIDN'T HAPPEN! I'll believe mankind is causing climate change just as soon as those chicken little scientists explain why (according to NASA) the temperature on Mars is increasing at a rate faster than that of Earth... is ET burning fossil fuels while hill climbing in his Hummer?
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