That million-person march will be on Sept. 24th, organized by people associated with http://www.350.org. Check out their website. It won’t be all in one place though – it’s all over the world and linked through the internet.”

I think he meant to give the date of October 24th. This is the day that 350.org is orchestrating as a “Global Day of Climate Action,” with more than 1,000 actions planned in scores of countries around the world.

Our group, The Global Warming Education Network (GWEN) is coordinating one of these events at Minute Man National Historical Park in Concord, MA.

Our themes will be to call for a new American Energy Revolution, and to push for a strong international climate agreement in Copenhagen in December. (More information at 350.org or http://www.gwenet.org/events.htm.)

I encourage everyone to join an event near them, or if there are none, to start one. Numbers count, and the more people involved the better!

That million-person march will be on Sept. 24th, organized by people associated with http://www.350.org. Check out their website. It won’t be all in one place though – it’s all over the world and linked through the internet.

For example, I’m organizing a demonstration in nearby Glacier National Park for that day. I am trying to get 350 people to bike to the park.

It IS time to get out of the computer-rooms and into many people’s faces about climate issues if we are going to make any kind of difference.

What are you all planning? I’d like to hear about, and support, the actions of the many well-informed denizens of this site.

“So where was this passion and urgency when you chose to talk about having 5000 year old ice to chill your whiskey? To my ear you were pretty laid back about klimakatastrophe in your framing at that time. Isn’t shifting the responsibility for our screwing up to our kids unconscionable? Isn’t it our generation that needs to grow up and act like adults so the younger generation might have an example of how to do it?

“Anyway, this time you are correct in your opening paragraph regarding ACES/W-M. It is inadequate to what current science, and the trends in that science, report to us is necessary (see the synthesis report out of Copenhagen http://climatecongress.ku.dk/pdf/synthesisreport/ ) That report’s “Key Message 3″ names as a risk the setting of weak targets, something you seem to have offered a rationalization for here.

“Regardless, would it have been more adult-like to include what is required of this legislation in this essay?”

That aside, the comments that were included reaffirm my bias that the NYTs covers the science as it does due to economic considerations. The ignorance and denial that exists (outside of the “effete corps of…”) is a market that they cannot afford to alienate. By convention, science is never settled. This too is not understood and therefore cannot be reported. The MSM pandering to a 6th grade education level to successfully “serve” a mass market has unintended consequences, in this case Friedman being a top columnist—and not Joe!

Hopefully Mr. Obama will address this topic more frequently, with the senate deliberation and the Copenhagen meetings in the months to come, he will have the chance to give very good speeches.

As I’ve pointed out on my site until my fingers are practically bleeding from the typing, we’re seeing a deluge of bad environmental news, nearly all of it in the form of “[some impact from or sign of climate chaos] is worse than expected”. And now we’re seeing a spooky uptick in CO2 and methane levels that could be a minor anomaly or it could be very bad news straight from the (no longer) permafrost.

And on top of that mess we have a numbingly indifferent mainstream and the marching deniers telling them, “Don’t listen to the crazy people! There is no global warming! Really!!! Now go shop for that shiny new SUV.”

There are still glimmers of hope, though. Earth:2100 had a lot of problems, but it probably opened some eyes. And there’s no lack of coverage on the science geek channels, plus the occasional crumb on network news (ugh). But it’s not nearly enough to fight 24/7/365 denier drumbeat.

We’re trying tell the truth to a public that only hears us when they seek us out, a public that is force-fed unscientific, greed- and ideology based nonsense that tells them exactly what they want to hear.

Congratulations, deniers. You’ve rigged the system, enlisted countless unpaid fanboys to do your work online, and unless we pull one hell of a solution out of our hat or you screw it up, you’ll have succeeded in triggering the biggest environmental and humanitarian disaster, by far, in the history of mankind. So tell me, all you deniers who know the price of everything and the value of nothing, what’s the ROI on that Faustian bargain?

Just today, word that Exxon is still funding groups that engage in climate change astrotrufing, despite promises to the contrary.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/ environment/ 2009/ jul/ 01/ exxon-mobil-climate-change-sceptics-funding

I look forward to the roadmap, and making my voice heard.

I’m also wondering if boycotts help. If we could get 100,000 people to pledge not to use Exxon for the next year, wouldn’t that send a strong message?

Best,

D

And, I agree with Friedman and you on the need for all of us, and young generations, to get very active.

I’m currently in the middle of a “project” that I’ll “launch” within the next two to three weeks. It’s informative. It should be good. Stay tuned.

Cheers,

Jeff