• If your issue is water rights, think of the
Support research on new energies, including
effect of a bad drought, prolonged by climate change, on thirsty people, on a thirsty child.
advanced biofuels (not ethanol), and including fusion energy. Support the Environmental Protection Agency EPA in its carbon regulation efforts under the Clean Air
• If you are working on women's rights,
Act. Support politicians who act on climate. Support the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI. Support technology transfer to other countries for renewable
consider that climate change is expected to impact women and children the hardest.
• If you are working with hungry people, imagine the increase in distress when food
energy so all can develop in a sustainable fashion. Support the process to develop and ratify a long-term fair and binding international climate treaty. Help create the
prices go through the roof as climatechange-enhanced drought decimates crops in the US Midwest. Climate change should be on everybody’s
political will for a livable climate.
front page.
Financial support of institutions active in mitigating climate and financial support of climate action projects would be a powerful
Here are some concrete suggestions from which to choose to increase your participation. Form Climate Action Teams.
statement.
Plan climate related events. Leverage from a letter to the editor on climate is large. Join with other groups active in climate, whether religious or social or political.
For those doing good work on other issues, think of integrating climate change into that work. Look through a climate lens. Understand how climate change affects your issue.
For example, the Citizen’s Climate Lobby is a focused group that is actively promoting a revenue-neutral carbon tax with refunds or dividends paid back to people, who come out
Some information sources are the UU-UNO Climate Portal (see flier), Skeptical Science.com (with one-liner responses to contrarian fallacies), and the Citizen’s Climate Lobby; the web addresses are in the hard copy of this talk, along with an appendix
ahead if they use less energy. Scientists (and there are many of you already infor med) can become better infor med on climate science and the
with information about contrarians. Prof. Michael Mann's great new book “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars” has details.
distracting pseudo-science disinformation campaign (for more details, see the appendix). You could be leaders in helping others to understand the climate issues.
An excellent resource is the Climate Science Rapid Response Team that has contacts with over 100 real climate scientists to provide reliable scientific information to media inquiries by journalists.
Here are more suggestions. Some cities have Green Teams; sign up. Support renewable energy projects. Support conservation projects. Support energy efficiency projects.
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