The Kellehers

I just received this link, The Lost Eight Years, from the Enviromental Defense Action Fund.  It’s a great overview and look back at the major studies and events, inaction by the current administration, and the alarming impacts of global warming over the last 8 year period.Â
Lost Eight Years
I would urge everyone to take a few [...]

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I got this email from Al Gore & The We Campaign today.

Friends,
I’ve been deeply frustrated. I suspect a lot of you have been too.
We’re facing such huge challenges and all you hear through the media are demagogic chants like “drill, drill, drill.”
Skyrocketing energy prices. The climate crisis. Unraveling financial markets. Wars that just happen to be [...]

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We must rebuild our economy, lower fuel costs, free ourselves from our addiction to oil, and save ourselves from the climate crisis. To do this, we need to demand that we Repower America with 100% clean electricity within 10 years. Meeting this ambitious goal would create millions of new jobs, lead to lower energy costs [...]

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On July 17, 2008, Former Vice President Al Gore challenged America to reset the way we make our energy choices.
He challenged America to generate 100% of our electricity from sources that do not lead to global warming — and to do it within 10 years. Meeting this ambitious goal would create millions [...]

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Standing before a room of oil company executives in June, John McCain flip-flopped and declared support for coastal oil drilling. Now the Washington Post is reporting that, within days, oil and gas execs ponied up nearly $1 million to elect McCain.1 It’s another piece of evidence that in a McCain White House, oil companies will [...]

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Unprecedented Proposal on Energy and Climate
Commitment to Clean Energy Future Will Expand Economic Opportunity, Address Energy, Climate and National Security Concerns
Washington, DC - To reset the way Americans think about the energy future and the climate crisis, former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore issued a bold challenge [...]

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I was really hoping that we might have been able to get an effective global warming bill passed this year, but it looks like that won’t be possible, at least not this year.
WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans on Friday blocked a global warming bill that would have required major reductions in greenhouse gases, after a bitter [...]

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After a year of dragging it’s feet, and even being ordered by a federal judge to make a decision, the Interior Department has finally listed the polar bear as a threatened species.  The polar bear must be protected because of the decline in Arctic sea ice from global warming.
But because of the current administration, it [...]

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Steve wrote this blog posting linking to a list of 50 ways to help the planet.  I’d like to share it here as well, as I thought that this was a very good summary of some easy things everyone can do to help lessen their impact on the planet.Â
I’d recommend printing this out (using both [...]

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Oh no!  Now global warming is going to increase the cost of beer, because warming climates will make the production of malting barley more difficult.  This should be a concern to beer lovers everywhere… even a simple pleasure like enjoying a nice cold Chimay, Hoegaarden, Guinness, La Chouffe or Victory will cost you more or even limited [...]

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This is a very exciting news story from MSNBC.  Al Gore has unveiled a $300 million campaign to educate people on the issue of global warming and to try to evoke more action on it.Â
I watched an interview with him last night when he talked about this campaign and saw some of the excellent commercials [...]

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Another news story, being reported by MSNBC, about a large ice shelf in the Antarctic that is about to collapse due to the effects of global warming.

An image of the Wilkins Ice Shelf disintegration taken from the British Antarctic Survey’s Twin Otter aircraft reconnaissance flight.

A vast ice shelf hanging on by a thin strip looks [...]

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This is another study, being reported by the Washington Post, which says that we need to stop all carbon emissions within a matter of decades in order to keep tempatures from rising any more and prevent water sources from drying up.

A heavy haze could be seen in Beijing in August 2007. Two recent reports call for [...]

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Vast ice sheets in the Western Antarctica are destabilizing, in this story reported by MSNBC News. These areas were previously thought to be protected from the effects of global warming. It is frightening to imagine ice melting from both Greenland, which is predicted to be completely ice free during the summers in as [...]

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Enviromental groups are doing their best to keep new coal plants from being built, in this story reported by MSNBC News.
It is amazing to me that dirty coal plants are still being built, knowing how much CO2 they are putting into the atmosphere. A large part, over 30%, of the total CO2 output of [...]

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The U.N.’s IPCC, which shared the Nobel Peace Prize this year with Al Gore, has released their landmark report on global warming.  The scientific concensus is that global warming is unequivocal, and that the amount of carbon dioxide already in our atmosphere means that it is certain sea levels will rise by an average of [...]

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Congratulations to Al Gore and the U.N. IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) for winning the Nobel Peace Prize for their work on the climate change crisis. The full story is here on MSNBC.

Former Vice President Al Gore, joined by his wife, Tipper, holds a news conference in Palo Alto, Calif., on Friday to comment on winning the [...]

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Well MSNBC is reporting that a new poll finds that most people believe our “leaders” are failing on the environment, and most think global warming is a problem that needs immediate action.  This is good news that the tide is turning on global warming, but we need to keep pressure on all of our elected [...]

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As reported by MSNBC, rising sea levels seem pretty certain at this point, and will probably be one of the more siginifcant problems caused by global warming.

A ship passes by the coast of Greenland where the nearby Sermeq Kujalleq glacier, a U.N. heritage site, has thinned in recent years. Greenland experts are surprised by the [...]

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