Ethics of Climate Change

Sustainable Development – Can We Balance Sustainable Development With Growth To Help Protect us From Ourselves?

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Sustainable Development - Can We Balance Sustainable Development With Growth To Help Protect us From Ourselves?

Sustainable Development is not a term that is mentioned too often in our fast paced throw away society. Is it posted and shared allover Facebook like Justine Beiber or some other trending topic, no. Should it be, probably, as we need it moving forward as much as we need water and food for survival. Population growth alone dictates that we must adopt this philosophy on a massive world-wide scale, not to mention climate change and the effects it will impose on our planet and us in the future.

Deforestation in Amazon Rain Forest

The term sustainable development was derived out of the environmental conservationist movement of the 1970′s, and asks us to question how we will preserve the Earth’s resources and how our decisions affect the Earth’s environment as a whole, not just our own backyards so to speak. We should question what happens when we wipe out an entire forest and carbon sink to not only that forest but to the entire planet and it’s eco-systems. To use an example here, 2.5 billion tons of CO² are added to the atmosphere as a result of deforestation which is a major contributor to global warming and climate change. Continue Reading Sustainable Development – Can We Balance Sustainable Development With Growth To Help Protect us From Ourselves? Here

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Posted by admin - April 3, 2012 at 11:26 am

Categories: Environmentalism, Ethics of Climate Change, Sustainable Development Tags: concept, development, economy, environment, environmental, Foundation, future, sustainability, sustainable, sustainable development, term

Mass Extinction Events Sixth Mass Extinction Event in Oceans from Human Carbon Emissions Likely

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Mass Extinction Events Sixth Mass Extinction Event in Oceans from Human Carbon Emissions Likely And Not From A More Likely Source Like This Asteroid Pictured Here

As mass extinction events go, humans may be creating the sixth mass extinction event in oceans from carbon emissions created by man. Many will of course proclaim differently, stating that mankind isn’t responsible, and the deniers will call us all loony left wing liberals or tree huggers, or eco Nazis, well so be it, but the facts are there.

The rate at which oceans are currently acidifying is faster than any rate over the last 300 million years. During that time span, there were four mass extinctions researchers discovered. During those four mass extinction events, the increase in CO₂ in the atmosphere not only warmed the planet but made the oceans more acidic as well. These changes are directly linked with major climate shifts and mass extinction events. Continue Reading Mass Extinction Events Sixth Mass Extinction Event in Oceans from Human Carbon Emissions Likely Here

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Posted by admin - March 5, 2012 at 1:24 pm

Categories: Ethics of Climate Change, Global Warming, Green Science, World News Tags: change, climate, co₂, Events, extinction, fish, mass, mass extinction events, ocean, oceans, sixth mass extinction, study

Greenhouse Gases Cause of Global Warming, Not Sun Activity New NASA Report Confirms

A prolonged solar minimum left the sun's surface nearly free of sunspots and accompanying bright areas called faculae between 2005 and 2010. Total solar irradiance declined slightly as a result, but the Earth continued to absorb more energy than it emit throughout the minimum. An animation of a full solar cycle is available here. (Credit: NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio)

Greenhouse gases are confirmed as the cause of global warming, not sun activity according to a recent NASA report. The recent, prolonged minimal in sun activity did not prevent the Earth from absorbing more solar energy than it let escape back into space, a recent NASA analysis of the Earth’s energy budget indicates. The study, Earth’s energy imbalance and implications, appeared in the Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics journal in December, 2011.

In a real brief summary, the study concluded:

Improving observations of ocean heat content show that Earth is absorbing more energy from the Sun than it is radiating to space as heat, even during the recent solar minimum. The inferred planetary energy imbalance, 0.58±0.15Wm−2 during the 6-yr period 2005–2010, confirms the dominant role of the human-made greenhouse effect in driving global climate change.

This imbalance is the primary driver for global warming, since more energy is coming in than leaving and, because it occurred during a period when the sun was emitting comparatively low levels of energy, the imbalance has implications for the cause of global warming. The results of the study confirm greenhouse gases produced by human activities are the most important driver of global climate change, according to the researchers. Continue Reading Greenhouse Gases Cause of Global Warming, Not Sun Activity New NASA Report Confirms Here

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Posted by admin - February 2, 2012 at 1:56 pm

Categories: Ethics of Climate Change, Global Warming, Man Made Disasters, NASA, World News Tags: activity, climate, energy, global, imbalance, minimum, recent, solar, study, sun

Texas Heat Wave & Drought Linked to Rapid Global Warming by NASA’s James Hansen

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Texas Heat Wave & Drought Linked to Rapid Global Warming by NASA's James Hansen Images

The Texas heat wave and drought linked to rapid global climate change according to NASA’s James Hansen.

The Texas heat wave and Texas drought that occurred over three months last summer where the temperatures in Texas rose higher than at any time in recorded history, and the state is still in the midst of the most expensive drought in the states history. But can the 2011 Texas heat wave and Texas drought be linked to global warming?

Some of us do associate these extreme weather events like this list of worst storms – natural disasters 2011 to global warming. However it is an entirely different world for scientists, and it is even difficult to get accross the fact that climate change is going on or is man made, however those attempts to discredit the science have been reduced greatly by the Koch led study into whether or not global warming is real. Continue Reading Texas Heat Wave & Drought Linked to Rapid Global Warming by NASA’s James Hansen Here

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Posted by admin - February 1, 2012 at 8:10 am

Categories: Ethics of Climate Change, Global Warming, Green Politics Hot Topics, Green Politics News, Man Made Disasters, Natural Disasters, Weather News, World News Tags: 2011, change, climate, Drought, global, hansen, heat, texas, warming, Wave

Vast Pool of Arctic Fresh Water Could Cool Europe According to British Scientists

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Vast Pool of Arctic Fresh Water Could Cool Europe According to British Scientists

According to British Scientists, a vast pool of expanding Arctic fresh water could cool Europe potentially causing another ice age. This is something that we suspected for some time now, and was portrayed in the movie Day After Tomorrow, however in the movie portrayed, it was much more extreme.

In real life, the scientists have determined that the fresh water pool is expanding and could lower the temperature of Europe by causing the ocean current to slow down. In the movie, the Gulf Stream shuts down altogether, unleashing an abrupt climate shift and the onset of the next Ice Age. Continue Reading Vast Pool of Arctic Fresh Water Could Cool Europe According to British Scientists Here

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Posted by admin - January 23, 2012 at 7:44 am

Categories: Ethics of Climate Change, Green Science, Weather News, World News Tags: Arctic, does, Europe, fresh, gulf, gulf stream, ice, little ice age, ocean, sea, stream, water

Green Planet Ethics Climate Change Global Warming, and other thoughts

Home sweet home, dont screw it up any worse!

Green Planet Ethics Climate Change Global Warming, and other thoughts boils down either for real, or a conspiracy theory, however you choose to address it, it is everyone’s problem who lives on Earth. Green energy is the future for Earth, not oil, which is finite and toxic at most levels. Earth cannot sustain our dependence on oil, and like any addiction, we need to take action. Finally admitting we have a problem is a good step, but is far from a solution on climate change. The clock is ticking on Planet Earth, and if this green energy can save us, or help us then we need to do it and do it now!
Continue Reading Green Planet Ethics Climate Change Global Warming, and other thoughts Here

Originally posted 2010-04-10 17:45:11.

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Posted by admin - July 30, 2011 at 4:38 pm

Categories: Ethics of Climate Change Tags: and other thoughts, change, climate change, earth, energy, ethics, global, global warming, good, green, green energy, Green Planet Ethics Climate Change Global Warming, green power, need, oil, power

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