Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Well, as you know, Britain’s Prime Minister, Tony Blair, really has religion on climate change. I mention this today because it is relevant to this week’s meeting on global warming in Kenya, the follow-up to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. The meeting is being held under the United Nations [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
The Washington Post continues to cover global warming more consistently than most major newspapers. They get heat for it (no pun intended) but ’stay the course’ in any case, as if this might be an important story.
The Sunday front page had this story placed right in its center, and I urge [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
The ecosystems of our oceans are on the verge of collapse. Here is what one scientist said about this:
I was shocked and disturbed by how consistent these trends are — beyond anything we suspected.
The new research shows that 29 percent of ocean species are already in collapse, and if the [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
I wanted to emphasize something that Nicholas Kristof writes about in the Op-Ed that I included in last night’s post. He describes an aspect of the natural carbon cycle, how carbon dioxide (CO2) is absorbed by the ocean waters, producing carbonic acid, “the same stuff found in soda pop.”
Too much [...]