[With essential content submitted by ecoSanity.org Kindred Defender, Dr. Peter D. Carter]
 

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
~ Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi ~
 

• Proviso
• Essential Statement by Sir Nicholas Stern
• Insanities of Note
• 3 Musts
• Essential March 2009 'Emergency' Climate Conference Article Excerpts

PROVISO

As a world community, we don't know the full potential of what we COULD do to bring our terrible atmospheric greenhouse gas levels down because we have not yet begun to try on a massive scale.  For 15 years, world powers have delayed serious action to curtail the rise and acceleration of global emissions, and similar forces are at it again in the lead up to the crucial, December 2009, climate conference in Copenhagen.

But if the world DID try, as if the survival of our species and most other life depended on it, multiple renewable energy and carbon cutting 'miracles' would, no doubt, be discovered.

As we continue to expose the inadequate and suicidal lack of proportional response to the latest, unnerving greenhouse data, we must take care not to underestimate the potential carbon cutting options that may surface once we commit our collective abilities to the task.

ESSENTIAL STATEMENT BY SIR NICHOLAS STERN

[The former chief economist for the World Bank and author of the 2006 Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change] said new research done in the past two or three years had made it clear there were "severe risks" if global temperature rose by the predicted +4 ºC to +7 ºC by 2100.  Agriculture would be destroyed and life would be impossible over much of the planet... ~ Lord Stern on global warming: It's even worse than I thought, The Independent, Michael McCarthy, March 13, 2009

The appeal below was sent by e-mail to key organizers/participants of the March 10 - 12, 2009, 'emergency' International Scientific Congress on Climate Change in Copenhagen.

After reading the validations of our position (further down), compare them to this March 13, 2009, summary of inadequate and underwhelming key outcomes of the congress in which more than 2,500 top scientists and delegates from nearly 80 countries warn that several key statistics (like the rate of sea level rise, for instance) are AT LEAST DOUBLE/ TWICE AS BAD/ HAPPENING TWICE AS FAST as previous estimates and that conditions are AT OR BEYOND THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO trajectories predicted by the IPCC only 2 years ago.