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Youtube.comhttp://www.youtube.com/?v=WtF0l-yuL6E [Youtube.com] From strawberriecake: NEW CAMPAIGN: Individuals CAN Make a Difference in Effort to Combat Global Warming Campaign Outlines Easy, Every Day Steps Individuals Can Take; PSAs Focus on Threat to our Children's Future Every Family Changing Just Three Light Bulbs to Energy Efficient Ones Equals Taking 3.5 Million Cars Off the Road For the first time ever, The Ad Council and Environmental Defense are teaming up to launch a new public service campaign reminding Americans that individuals can make a difference in the effort to slow the effects of global warming. The new campaign, which alerts Americans about the imminent dangers of global warming, aims to provide individuals with the tools they need to make easy changes in their daily behaviors that will help curb greenhouse gas pollution. HOW YOU CAN fight global warming: For Your Home Use energy-efficient lighting and appliances Make sure attic is properly insulated Insulate your water heater Caulk around windows and doors For Your Car Choose most fuel-efficient car that meets needs and budget Cut down on fuel use by making sure tires are properly inflated Group errands to conserve fuel Research shows that the globe is warming as the concentration of green house gases in the atmosphere are increasing due to human activities such as fossil fuel burning. Scientists are becoming increasingly alarmed that the worst impacts and irreversible consequences of global warming are sooner than we think and could cause major climate changes, including more droughts, intense storms and hurricanes, and rising sea levels in our childrens' lifetimes. BENEFITS of Taking Steps to Fight Global Warming: Every family changes three light bulbs to energy efficient bulbs = taking 3 ½ million cars off the road Making sure car tires are properly inflated can cut back on fuel needs by 10% Buying a car that gets just 3 miles per gallon better mileage can cut your CO2 emissions by 3,000 pounds per year. That's about three barrels of oil. , tagged with global warming


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Nationalcenter.orghttp://www.nationalcenter.org [Nationalcenter.org] The Global Warming Information Center: "Environmentalists Erroneously Cite Government Pork-Barrel Spending as Evidence of Global Warming," National Policy Analysis #221 explains why the number of disasters declared by presidents is not a reliable indicator of the planet's temperature, as claimed in an environmentalist press conference sponsored by US PIRG in October 1998, by David Ridenour, vice president of The National Center for Public Policy Research - October 1998

Climateark.orghttp://www.climateark.org [Climateark.org] Climate Change Blog: There is a growing movement to Ban the Bulb - the phasing out and replacement of still widely used traditional incandescent light bulbs which are 100 years old and grotesquely energy inefficient. Newer compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) (search) cost more initially, but are 2/3 more efficient and in the long term save money, energy and the environment.

[Blog.sciam.com] Are You a Global Warming Skeptic? Part II: BLOG: SciAm Observations: The airing of doubts about global warming that I solicited last week has been remarkable: 169 blog comments (albeit with some repeats) and a number of private emails (including one from a college suitemate and engineering classmate I haven't seen in 18 years). I started the whole discussion because I felt communication on an important scientific issue had broken down, and I figure the best way to make sure we've reconnected the wires is to try and summarize what everyone has been saying.

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