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Solar panels to return to the White House?
September 3, 2010 12:07 AM
Back in the '70's, Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the roof of the White House to emphasize the importance of alternative energy. How long do you think they lasted? During the energy crisis of the late 1970s, then-president Jimmy Carter called on Americans to conserve power and to prove that he wasn't just all talk, he had an expansive row of solar panels installed on the roof of the West Wing in 1977. Now, coming up on October 10th (10/10/10), Bill McKibben - founder of 350.org - is leading the charge back to the White House to get solar panels re-installed on its roof: McKibben is challenging President Obama to install his new set of panels on October 10 as part of 350.org's 10/10/10 Global Work Party, a day when millions of people across the planet will be getting to work on climate solutions. Watch McKibben below, when he appeared on David Letterman speaking about 10/10/10, and his new book, "Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet"
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August 16, 2010 1:36 AM
Could it really be that all the crazy weather and extreme activity across the globe is indicative of Climate Change? The floods battered New England, then Nashville, then Arkansas, then Oklahoma -- and were followed by a deluge in Pakistan that has upended the lives of 20 million people. It's probably the case that as the earth warms, these events start happening more and more frequently, but will there really be a time when we can definitively say, "Yes, Global Warming is causing these extreme weather events"?
All we have is statistics right now, but they are all pointing in the direction that a warming planet causes more violent weather patterns: If the earth were not warming, random variations in the weather should cause about the same number of record-breaking high temperatures and record-breaking low temperatures over a given period. But climatologists have long theorized that in a warming world, the added heat would cause more record highs and fewer record lows. Yes, there are skeptics, but the statistics do not lie: Climate-change skeptics dispute such statistical arguments, contending that climatologists do not know enough about long-range patterns to draw definitive links between global warming and weather extremes. They cite events like the heat and drought of the 1930s as evidence that extreme weather is nothing new. Those were indeed dire heat waves, contributing to the Dust Bowl, which dislocated millions of Americans and changed the population structure of the United States. Will it be too late when the statistics overwhelmingly point to a warming planet causing extreme weather patterns? Let's hope not... Read the entire article here.
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