Palm oil companies operating in Indonesia have
pledged to stop expanding plantations into rainforests [
ark]. In late 2006 Ecological Internet was the first to launch a large international protest campaign on this matter -- bringing to the world's attention how oil palm plantations on carbon rich tropical rainforest peatlands were destroying biodiversity, global climate and orangutan habitat. Over 11,000 protestors from 114 countries sent one quarter of a million
protest emails to the Indonesian government. On another occasion similar numbers brought the...
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Bill McKibben [search] writes in "
Civilization's last chance" [
ark] the best summing up of the known threats facing humanity now from climate change if major emission cuts are not pursued immediately. His latest
campaign efforts highlight the number 350, which he calls "the most important number on Earth" because of scientific understanding that if carbon emissions are not stablized at 350 ppm, it will not be possible "to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed." It has been...
Much ado has been made [
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ark] regarding a study last week in Nature which found that global warming may slow or even temporarily cool over the coming decade. This was seized upon by all sorts of
climate skeptics [search] and charlatans to suggest climate change is not so important after all. I have three brief responses. Firstly, the rise in average global temperature is only one way to characterize change in atmospheric patterns and processes. It is becoming apparent that broader extremes...