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Description These
two issues are inextricably linked together, so we placed them on the
same page. There are still skeptics whether humans are affecting
the temperature of the planet's biosphere, however many of them are employed
by companies such as Exxon-Mobile who will ultimately face the realities
of a limited global petroleum supply. The global temperature
has risen an average (spread out over the entire surface) one degree
Celsius in the past century. Predictions of 3 to 6 additional
degrees Celsius are predicted for the next century. We are also
fast approaching the mid-point of the fossil fuel resource extraction
(some say it has already passed us). This mid-point, called
Hubberts Peak after the man who predicted this two generations ago,
should be a warning sign that we as a species should lay off the fossil
fuels and follow a new directive of renewable resources for
energy. Because the extraction industry is subsidized by the
government in the US, we do not see the actual cost of oil.
Combined with continued military support in regions such as in Southwest
Asia, the cost is far higher. The oceans rise about 2 millimeters
a year. This might not sound like much. Combine this with
crust subsidence and reduced material carried to the coast due to rivers
being dammed and dredged, becomes a lethal recipe for coastal
inhabitants, both human and non-human. The earth's oceans and
forests can only absorb so much carbon released into the
atmosphere. As rainforests (both tropical and boreal) are cut
down, the carbon they hold are released. Oceans are turning acidic
as carbon is absorbed (the oceans have absorbed half of the carbon
emitted over the past 200 years). Many countries (including China)
are moving away from the non-renewables because they see a day when
recovering and burning fossil fuels will not be worth the effort.
Fossil fuels will become scarce quickly as India, China and the Russia
all head towards a First World existence. Second only to water,
oil will be the most contested resource on earth for the next one
hundred years.
Helpful
Websites Global
Warming
- AirHead
- information about emissions, air pollution and global
warming
- Cicerone:
an article about The Kyoto Protocol
- Climate
Solutions : focused on stopping global warming
- Global
Warming by Defenders of Wildlife
- Global Warming: The Pew Center on Global Climate Change
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (good resource)
- Kyoto Protocol
targets by the World Resource Institute
- Project Thin Ice 2005 - Fighting Global Warming
- RealClimate
variety of information on Climate Science
- The Carbon Neutral
Company - shop carbon/guilt free
- The Heat Is Online
- US Climate Change Science Program
- US Global Change Research Program
- USATODAY
article - Climate archive disappearing with the snows of Kilimanjaro
- USGS Global Change
Research - Earth Surface Dynamics
- The
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
- Myclimate
- the Climate Protection Partnership
- Oil
Change - movie production dedicated to improving the world
Energy Issues
- American Council for an Energy Efficient
Economy (ACEEE)
- The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and
Gas (ASPO)
- The Alternative Energy
Institute (AEI)
- US
DOE Green Power Network (EREE)
- US DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
(EERE)
- National Center for Photovoltaics
(NCPV)
- World oil and gas 'running out' - Oct. 2,
2003 by CNN.com
- Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy
- Responsible
Energy - arthjustice
- Energy Web Directory - Alternative Fuel & Advanced Vehicles
- Consumer
Tips: Flex Your Power
- Energy
Justice Network
- Energy
Star - buy efficient appliances
- "How Fuel Cells Work"
by Howstuffworks.com
- Hubbert Peak of Oil Production
- NativeEnergy: Helping Fight Climate Change
- New Energy
Future - how is your state powered?
- A Responsible Energy Policy for the 21st Century
(NRDC)
- Global
Warming (Sierra Club)
- Renewable Choice Energy: Buy Wind Power For Your Home and
Business
- Solar Institute
: Natural Solutions for a Brighter Future
- The
Oil Reserve Fallacy
- Wind Current
- Winning the Oil
Endgame
- 3 Phases
Energy - committed to promoting renewables
- The
Fall of Petroleum
- Clean
Energy Blueprint - Good Resource
- The
Battle for Energy Dominance
- Energy
Hog (good stuff about energy use)
- National
Bioenergy Center
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- Helpful
Reports
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- Helpful
Books & Journals
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- "Global Energy Outlook" magazine
- "What
Goes up" by Nance
- "Beyond
Oil" by Deffreys
- "Crossing
the Rubicon" by Ruppert
- "Global
Warming" by Bernarde
- "Hubberts
Peak" by Deffreys
- "Out
of Gas" by Goldstein
- "Introduction
to Energy and the Environment" by Liu
- "Power
with Nature" by Ewing
- "The
End of Oil" by Roberts
- "The
Hydrogen Economy" by Rifkin
- "The
Hype about Hydrogen" by Romm
- "The
No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change" by Godrej
- "The
Party's Over" by Heinberg
- "Crude"
by Shah
- "The
Global Carbon Cycle" by Field et al.
- "The
Changing Ocean Carbon Cycle" by Hanson
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