Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on December 22, 2012 at 10:15am

Rap on divesting from fossil fuels.

Comment by Joan Denoo on December 22, 2012 at 11:24am

Thanks Ruth, excellent expression. I am reposting

Comment by Joan Denoo on December 23, 2012 at 11:57pm

Seattle Mayor Calls For Divesting City Pension Funds From Fossil Fuels

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn is now calling on his city to strip fossil fuels from its two main pension funds. According to the city’s finance director, Seattle has $17.6 million invested in Chevron and ExxonMobil, as well as smaller investments in other oil and gas companies. Mayor McGinn sent a letter to the city’s pension fund managers on Friday calling for them to move their money elsewhere:

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on December 31, 2012 at 1:39pm

Great news, Joan. I should write to my local government suggesting they do the same to their municipal worker's pension fund.

Comment by Joan Denoo on January 16, 2013 at 11:39am

"The nine warmest years on record have occurred since 2000. 2012 places ninth on the list. This visualization shows the increase in average surface temperature across the globe since 1880."
Earth is heating up
http://www.livescience.com/26285-earth-is-heating-up-2012-keeps-up-...

Comment by Krozan Darshandhari on January 18, 2013 at 1:38am

Similar group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/protect.world/

Comment by Joan Denoo on January 18, 2013 at 12:28pm

Is climate change ‘rampaging our planet?’

“Climate change is rampaging our planet, our region, and our communities like an unstoppable freight train that has gone off the tracks,”  ”We are no longer looking at a ‘predicted’ future of possible highly variable extreme weather conditions and catastrophic events. That future is here now.

“Climate instability has impacts that do and will continue to affect each one of us. Our pocketbooks, food supply, environment and ecology, human health and our social structures will bear the increasingly undisguised and festering scars of this careening train.”

~ Jay Burney, founder Learning Sustainability Campaign

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on January 18, 2013 at 3:25pm

House Science Chair’s First Action Is To Hold A Climate Change Deni...

*groan*

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on January 18, 2013 at 3:36pm

This video on 2012 Climate from Joe Romm contrasts climate denier claims to actual events and experts. The only problem I had was the last scene from fiction to represent the future.

Comment by Joan Denoo on January 18, 2013 at 3:53pm

Ruth, I agree, an otherwise excellent report lost credibility by using scare tactics. We don't need that. We need accurate information, and reasonable discussion about what we can expect to happen, and how to prepare for the possibility of giant storms.
Use information, not fear, to get the attention of the public.
And for goodness sake, don't rebuild coastal and floodplain damages; move out of the way because we can't build high enough sea walls or levies.

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