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Tucson’s International Day of Climate Action (350.org)

by on Oct. 16, 2009, under Health, Life, Politics

Mark your calendar for Saturday, October 24, and be at the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center, 1288 W. River Road for the first Tucson International Day of Climate Action starting at 10 a.m. The TCCC is located east of La Canada, on the north side of River Road. People from all over the world are participating in this global event.

kids snorkeling at Great Barrier Reef, for 350.org

kids snorkeling at Great Barrier Reef, for 350.org

Check it all out at 350.org and here’s info copied from their Tucson flyer.

“Connect with others in our community and thousands of communities across the planet who are building a movement to lift public awareness about Global Warming. Let’s show the world what Tucson is doing to make policymakers aware of the scientific evidence that says the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide must be lowered to 350 ppm if we
are going to avoid a catastrophic ecological tipping point.” 350 ppm (parts per million) signifies the safe upper limit of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere.

At this event, you will have an opportunity to:
-be part of a “human sculpture” in the form of a giant “350”— photo will be sent to 350.org and become part of a collection of similar images from around the world that will be delivered to the media and world leaders;
-participate in a “Green TEA Party”, gathering 350 or more petitions to influence local officials to endorse a viable foundation for sustainable development (TEA = Tucson Ecological Action);
- hear short comments by local dignitaries;
- talk to representatives of various local non-profit organizations about products and services that reduce greenhouse gas emissions

The schedule of events on the morning of October 24:
-10:00 Attendees arrive; begin to sign Green TEA Party petitions; attendees are assigned to be part of the three, five or zero of the human sculpture, talk to non-profits.
-10:45 to 11:15: Human sculpture formed; pictures taken.
-11:15 to 11:45: Presentations.
-11:45 to 12:59: Mingle, disburse and depart.

RSVP to Russell McGee in Tucson, via the www.350.org website. Participants for the photo are asked to wear light-colored (yellow or white) head gear, so leave your black Cowboy hats at home.

Another 350 action that same day is “350 for 350 Tucson Bike Race”, an 8 mile ride from 9 to 10 a.m. starting at Hi Corbett Field parking lot at Randolph Park. Visit the 350.org website to sign up.

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  • Jonathan DuHamel

    Carolyn,
    These people are perpetrating nonsense. For most of the earth’s history, carbon dioxide has been 10 times the current level. CO2 gets lower only in ice ages such as we are experiencing now. (For quibblers, we are in an interglacial period of the ice age).
    I checked the 350.org link. Among there statements was: “For all of human history until about 200 years ago, our atmosphere contained 275 parts per million of carbon dioxide.”
    This is not true. Direct measurement of atmospheric CO2 since the early 1800s shows that it reached 440ppmv in 1940 and over 430 ppm between 1810 and 1830 (Beck, 2007, 180 Years accurate CO2 – Gas analysis of Air by Chemical Methods). Another line of proxy evidence, measurement of leaf stomate size, also shows that CO2 over the last 6,000 years has fluctuated well above 275 ppm.
    See the WryHeat blog for the facts, including these posts:
    Your Carbon Footprint Doesn’t Matter
    Natural Climate Cycles
    A Basic Error in Climate Models
     
     

    • Patrick O

      You really should consider publishing in scientific journals and exposing this fraud.
      If you were able to show that climate change was not a problem you could save us trillions of dollars and would undoubtedly receive a Nobel.
      But the scientific community is unlikely to be aware of the Wry Heat blog.

      • Jonathan DuHamel

        Most of the material I put in the blog comes from scientific journals.  My goal is to make the general public more aware of  that information, so people can better assess government policy.

    • Dave Ewoldt

      The problem is, Jonathan, that when you combine bad science with bad ideology, you can’t back it up with misapplied and inaccurate mathematics.  The father of steady-state economics, former World Bank Sr. Economist Herman Daly, calls this arithmomorphic analytical thinking. This is most clearly illustrated by taking the mathematics of compound interest, in which debt can grow infinitely (which is confused with economic growth), and saying that “proves” that both natural resources and waste sinks can also grow infinitely.

      It’s pretty easy to be an anthropogenic global warming denier. All one must do is ignore as irrelevant the laws of thermodynamics. The math is pretty easy from there on out. You might, however, want to double check the degree of silliness of the stuff that comes out of the Heritage Institute, American Petroleum Institute, etc. against the detailed, and peer-reviewed, refutations done on realclimate.org before you repeat it as gospel if your goal is to develop any credibility.

  • radmax

    Now, if we could only get them to hold their breath for say…thirty minutes or so, this might actually affect the atmospheric conditions… :)

    • ado1

      Agreed, Max !

  • Jonathan DuHamel

    Correction to link in previous reply:
     
    Your Carbon Footprint Doesn’t Matter
     
    http://tucsoncitizen.com/wryheat/2009/06/04/your-carbon-footprint-doesn%e2%80%99t-matter/
     

  • mорское

    global warming is global crap.

    yet another moron’s soap box.

    • leftfield

      It’s all a ruse to distract you from our plans to convert the country and and change the name to the Socialist States of America.  Then while you’re arguing about that, we’re going to take away your ammunition and close the churches.

      • Don Smith

        I knew it…I just knew it!  Dang Bolsheviks! 

        First they put flouride in our water—thus contaminating our precious bodily fluids—and now this!

        • leftfield

          Yes, Don, fluoridation was the first commie conspiracy; designed and implemented by commie lib’rals to bring an end to everything good and decent about the American way of life; fought tooth and nail by all true patriots. 

  • ldonyo

    Make sure that you drive your Hummer to the event to show your support for ‘global warming’!  Are they going to have lots of charcoal grills in the parking lot, like a tailgate party?

  • Ado

    Good grief, are there people who still buy into that crazy notion that all us little human beans everywhere are somehow able to affect the global climate?  It’s gettn’ warmer, it’s gettn’ colder…  that’s the way it’s always been,  cuz that’s just the way Mother Nature works it.  Despite the rantings of 25,000  “scientist” tree huggers,  it definately appears that ol’ Mom Nature has been in fact cooling the planet for the last seven to eleven years.  Well that’s climate change for ya’. Always happenin’,  whether or not we agree …

    • leftfield

      How can we conspire to hide the truth about global warming when we’re so busy trying to hide the truth about Obama’s birth certificate? 

  • ado1

    How do the tree huggers explain the fact that the earth has been cooling for the last 7 to 11 years?  Perhaps that’s just another “Inconvenient Truth” ???

    • Dave Ewoldt

      I don’t know about tree-huggers, but scientists and others whose brains still work well enough to do very simple math don’t explain it, since your assertion is false. The planet hasn’t been cooling, the rate at which it is heating up hasn’t been quite as steep.
      The inconvenient truth is that not heating up as fast isn’t the same thing as cooling.
       

      • Carolyn Classen

        Thanks for your comments.  The 350.org event starts today at 10 a.m. at the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center on River Road.  Go find out for yourselves what this is all about.

      • Ado

        Sorry Dave,

        You are somewhat behind the times with those global warming theories . The temperature  data being collected does not support your comments.  The U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works is no longer buying into the  “global warming”  nonsense either.  I would suggest you digest a bit of the committee’s current findings. They are quite simple and straightforward genuine inconvenient truths,  not designed to get any Oscars…
         
        http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=5ceaedb7-802a-23ad-4bfe-9e32747616f9
         

  • http://www.hostelio.com Hostelio

    Small efforts often lead to more efforts and sometimes greater efforts. And pretty soon, each of us is a part of the solution in our own way. And best of all, most of the time it’s fun.

    In the course of planning this climate action I have experienced the power of taking action – like a pebble falling in water, the ripples never stop reaching out.

    • Carolyn Classen

      Thanks for writing “Hostelio”.  People like you give me hope for the world.

  • Scottar

    Very Poetic Hostelio, but that doesn’t counter the intelligent observations of Jonathan DuHamel .

    350ppm is what james Hansen claimed back in 1991 was the no return tipping point for runaway global warming. It’s now somewhere around 385ppm. I don’t see much global warming happening lately. How much tipping point does it take to fry the Earth? LOL

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