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The Sierra Club Mountains Group held its second Global Warming Rally on November 3, 2007.
Rallies were held across America to call for political leadership action to
curb Global
Warming.
The events built on Step It Up’s April 14, 2007, Action Day which produced
more than 1,400 events in 50 states.
More than 40 events took place in California on November 3, 2007.
Click
here
for our Step It Up report.
The
Mountains Group held the first rally in Blue Jay on April 14, 2007.
Click here for pictures.
Global warming
impacts everyone. It is creating
unpredictably
shifting weather patterns leading to droughts as well as more frequent
and intense storms and forest fires. Rising sea levels caused by melting
ice will threaten islands and low lying coastal land and cities.
Global warming threats to California:
The snow pack in the Sierra
Nevada could shrink up to 90 percent during this century, with serious
impacts on the state's water supply. The risk of large wildfires in the
state could increase by 55 percent. Increased frequency of heat waves
may cause the incidence of heat-related illnesses and deaths to rise.
Higher temperatures would cause higher energy demands.
Environmental
problems faced by the Inland Region, smog, wildfires and water
scarcity, will worsen.
Deforestation causes global warming. Twentyfive to thirty
 percent
of greenhouse gases released in the atmosphere each year is caused by
deforestation. That's because trees take up carbon dioxide from the air
and store it as carbon. When the trees are cut down, or burn up, the
stored carbon is again released as carbon dioxide. Forests also help
regulate rainfall and keep the atmosphere cool.
Climate
action in Europe: Climate change and what to do about it
is now on the top of the EU's agenda, says the BBC's Jonny Dymond in
Brussels.
U.N. Secretary General calls global warming a priority and
warns that the destruction it will inflict, including loss of arable
land due to droughts and coastal flooding, is likely to be a "major
driver of war and conflict" in the coming decades.
Hawaiian islands threatened to be submerged by global warming:
Findings of a team of Hawaii-based scientists suggest that 65 percent of
the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, and the rare, vulnerable wildlife
inhabiting them, could be lost by 2100.
Global economic disaster could result
from global warming according
to a report by British economist Nicholas Stern. It would cost less to
take strong action against climate change than to react to changes as
they unfold, the study concludes. |
The
first person to predict man-made global warming was Swedish
scientist Svante Arrhenius, who published a paper