Unwelcome Guests - Taking Action on Climate torrent

Unwelcome Guests - Taking Action on Climate
(...Instead of Wanking to the Dow Jones)

Parts..............: 2
Length (h:m:s).....: 01:59:00
Language...........: English
Date Recorded......: 2007-02-18
Location Recorded..: Watkins Glen, NY

Featured Speakers/Commentators:
George Monbiot, Mayer Hillman, Phil England

Greenhouse gases have hit a new record in the atmosphere and the
build-up is accelerating, apparently because of industrial growth
in Asia, . China is opening coal-fired power plants at the rate of
almost one a week. "Levels are at a new high," said Kim Holmen,
research director of the Norwegian Polar Institute which oversees
the Zeppelin measuring station on the Arctic archipelago of
Svalbard about 1,200 km (750 miles) from the North Pole.

Concentrations of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas emitted
largely by burning fossil fuels in power plants, factories and cars,
had risen to 390 parts per million (ppm) from 388 a year ago. 400
parts per million is considered the critical threshhold beyond which
warming effects may be beyond the point of no return. At the present
rate of increase, we will reach the critical level in five years.

Meanwhile, on Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average closed at an
all time high. There is actually a relationship between the CO2
numbers and the Dow Jones. Governments are maintaining the Dow Jones
numbers which reflect a toxic brew of overproduction and excessive
consumption - all fueled by the burning of hydrocarbons, at the
expense of focussing on the CO2 numbers and the capacity of the
planet to sustain our sort of life form.

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