I've been doing a great deal of reading in the last six months on Global Warming, climate change and the extensive campaign by industry to dely and block change as long as possible.
Some things to keep in mind:
-Companies like ExxonMobil, Southern Company and associations like Western Fuels, American Pertroleum Institute, and Peabody Energy have spent over a billion dollars in the last dozen years to confuse the science as much as possible and influence lawmakers into doing nothing in North America.
-According to some experienced climatologists like James Hansen the director of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies in New York, there's a very real risk of a runaway greenhouse effect if we consume all coal, oil and natural gas reserves. It becomes a "dead certainty" if we convert and burn the tar sands and oil shales. A runaway greenhouse would exterminate all surface life on the planet btw.
- There's over 1,400 coal fired power plants being planned for construction in the next 20 years worldwide.
Some great books on the subject are:
The Weather Makers, by Tim Flannery
Storm of my Grandchildren, by James Hansen
Hell and High Water, by Alastair McIntosh
Climate Cover-Up, by James Hoggan
Boiling Point, by Ross Gelbspan
Censoring Science, by Mark Bowen
Some things to keep in mind:
-Companies like ExxonMobil, Southern Company and associations like Western Fuels, American Pertroleum Institute, and Peabody Energy have spent over a billion dollars in the last dozen years to confuse the science as much as possible and influence lawmakers into doing nothing in North America.
-According to some experienced climatologists like James Hansen the director of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies in New York, there's a very real risk of a runaway greenhouse effect if we consume all coal, oil and natural gas reserves. It becomes a "dead certainty" if we convert and burn the tar sands and oil shales. A runaway greenhouse would exterminate all surface life on the planet btw.
- There's over 1,400 coal fired power plants being planned for construction in the next 20 years worldwide.
Some great books on the subject are:
The Weather Makers, by Tim Flannery
Storm of my Grandchildren, by James Hansen
Hell and High Water, by Alastair McIntosh
Climate Cover-Up, by James Hoggan
Boiling Point, by Ross Gelbspan
Censoring Science, by Mark Bowen