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Days of Action on Climate Change

Climate Action | 07.02.2008 11:18 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Globalisation

Dates for your diaries:

National Days of Climate Action

1 MAY: Mayday Mayday: Invasion of the Climate Snatchers....

3 JUNE: Day of Action on Food and Climate Change


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1 MAY

Mayday Mayday: Invasion of the Climate Snatchers....

As climate change rises up the political agenda, the same corporations that are largely responsible for the problem are attempting to dominate the mainstream debate about the solutions, in the hope to maintain the economic status quo.

A huge number of techno-fixes are forming a new economic sector: from biofuels to nuclear power, carbon-trading to hydrogen fuel cells, dumping urine in the ocean to carbon capture and storage. Everywhere corporations are seeking the elusive elixir which allows to continue business as usual.

All of these technologies are a distraction from the real solution to the problems we face: a massive reduction in our consumption and the end to economic growth.

What's wrong with these technologies?

* A lot of these technologies won't be ready in time to save the climate
* Many actually increase carbon emissions
* Some rely on a different non-renewable resource
* Many have massive environmental impacts
* None of them can provide us with the amount of energy we currently use
* Many will perpetuate problems of social injustice

On May 1st, international workers day, lets challenge these false solutions to climate chaos and show the real solution: far-reaching social change, and reduction in consumption.

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3 JUNE

Day of Action on Food and Climate Change

The Climate Action day that bites....

The kind of food we eat contributes up to a third of our greenhouse emissions.
It's about time for us to switch to plant based, organic, seasonal and locally produced food.

Climate action starts on your dinner plate, in the supermarket, on your allotment and in your back yard, in the food processing and distribution centres, down on the farm, in your high street, at the airport and in the lorry park.

Take action on 3rd June and help highlight the role of food and the food industry in climate chaos.

Get involved - whether you're into local food, permaculture, animal rights, allotmenting, humanitarian issues, food politics, transport campaigning. Make the links on climate change.

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These days of action are called and co-ordinated by groups within the Network for Climate Action/Climate Camp.

Please distribute this info widely, stick it in your diaries and get planning. More info including a website to follow soon!

For lots of resources and support on taking climate action and contact details for your nearest climate action group see  http://www.networkforclimateaction.org.uk

See also  http://fossilfoolsday.org/ for Fossil Fools Day, which is happening on 1 April around the world.

Climate Action
- e-mail: manchester@climatecamp.org.uk

Comments

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There is no evidence climate changed is caused by human activity!

07.02.2008 12:40

There is no evidence at all that climate change is caused by human activity. Climate change has become a cult in recent years where everyone is led to believe that it is human activity that is driving climate change. Infact climate change has always been happening long before humans ever existed.

While it is true that the climate is changing there is no hard evidence to link this to human activity. Also most climate change campaigners who blame human activity as environmentalists not scientists.

Realist

realist? head stuck where the light don't shine

07.02.2008 16:02

Realist - try reading the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recent reports which link climate chaos directly to human activity (since industrialisation) - over 2,000 scientists, peer-reviewed that you're trying to ignore to peddle your climate denial and thus dooming us all!

real realist

Americas' hottest summer was 1934!

07.02.2008 19:07

Some facts don't square with the theory that climate change is due to human activity. For example America had its hottest summer in 1934 when there was far less industrialisation around the world. Nlorth America has also experienced many very severe winters over the past 20 years where temperatures have plummetted in winter. And includeed record snow falls.

It is only Britain and a few other countries which have started to have milder winters over the past 20 years. The climate is changing but not evenly everywhere and there is no hard evidence to connect recent weather changes over the past 25 years to human activity.

realist

Do some research and some thinking!

08.02.2008 16:44

Of course the climate isn't going to change 'evenly everywhere'. Weather systems aren't even- it wouldn't be weather otherwise!

I don't know why you're claiming there's no evidence to link global warming to human activities. That's not true. There's a lot of evidence of various types. I don't think there's any definate 100% certain proof of the enhanced greenhouse effect- it's just very very likely.

Physics says that carbon dioxide (plus NO3, H20 etc) traps heat in the Earth's atmosphere. I don't think that's open to challenge, but have a go if you want. If you increase the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (which combustion certainly does; just go stand outside a coal power station) is it not reasonable to assume that the greenhouse effect (which, again is not disputed) will be enhanced?

1934 might well have been the warmest year on record somewhere, but that doesn't challenge the climate change theory at all. You said yourself that climate is not naturally static.

I think the evidence for human induced climate change is pretty convincing. So do pretty much all scientists.


I almost wish I hadn't bothered writing this reply since I doubt you'll listen and I just burnt a bit of coal typing this

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