A very gifted J.H. Bruns high school student, Kate, worked during the summer to produce
six amazing climate change podcasts. Kate wrote the scripts, produced the podcasts and even composed and performed the background music! The superb podcasts are filled with interesting facts about climate change impacts and solutions. The information is presented in a captivating manner that illustrates Kaitlin's refreshingly fun, youth…
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Added by Dean Medeiros on January 15, 2010 at 2:27pm —
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UNESCO
Je représente un des piliers d’UNESCO. APPENDRE à être.
Apprendre à être c’est :
Etre sensible aux besoins de nos voisins, de notre habitat et de notre terre.
Etre conscient de- ce que j’utilise et les effets de ma consommation sur l’environnement.
Etre critique des politiques gouvern…
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Added by Miss Green on November 11, 2009 at 12:30pm —
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Traveling to Ottawa with 40 young Manitobans who are passionate about working for change and have so many skills to offer to this movement was an amazing and inspiring experience. I hope these pictures capture the fun we had and the difference we made!
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Added by Erica on October 29, 2009 at 5:44pm —
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Right now, at the Eco-Network, 2 fabulous volunteers from Canada World Youth are helping out at the office. Regina is involved with a similar organization in Kenya: KENVO. In this blog she tells us about how KENVO works.
introduction:
Kijabe Envoroment Volunteers [kenvo] is a community based organization in the central province of Kenya.kenya is divided into eight provinces,central province being one of them.
KENVO:It was established in 1994 and registered in 1996 by a group of post graduates…
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Added by Erica on October 13, 2009 at 3:19pm —
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Climate change scenarios for Nepal show considerable convergence on continued warming, Warming trends have already had significant impacts in the Nepal Himalayas -most significantly in terms of glacier retreat such as increase in size and volume of glacial lakes, making them more prone to glacial lake outburst flooding (GLOF).
Adaptation in Forestry
Forest covers 39.6 percent of the total land surface of Nepal, while the world’s 57 countries have less than 10% of their land area in forests. In…
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Added by Ujjwal Thapa Shrestha on September 24, 2009 at 8:55pm —
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Today in my email I received an interesting news clipping:
Global Wind Group Inc. and the RM of Morris to Unveil Innovative Clean Energy Project in Rosenort, Manitoba
On June 24, 2009, Global Wind Group Inc. will unveil a new vertical axis wind turbine installation at the Morris Municipal Public Service Garage in Rosenort, Manitoba. This is the first municipal building in the province to be equipped with these quiet, cost-effective and durable wind turbines. The turbines will red…
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Added by Mikhail Kolybaba on June 23, 2009 at 1:00pm —
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A nation’s policies usually only affect its citizens. Take health care, crime, or taxes. These policies could affect the rest of the world indirectly – through the economy, for example – but the benefits and consequences of the policies’ effectiveness, or lack thereof, will be present first and foremost in the nation in which they were created.
Climate change legislation doesn’t work the same way.
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Added by Kate on June 11, 2009 at 6:10pm —
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Scientists debate each other’s work all the time. In fact, they’re encouraged to do so. The peer-review process was set up so that every misconception, assumption, or source of error in a scientific article could be nailed down and corrected. Scientists look for mistakes. It’s practically in their job description.
Normal scientific practice states that, should a scientist find a mistake in someone else’s work, they approach them about it, either directly or through the journal which published t…
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Added by Kate on June 11, 2009 at 6:09pm —
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An all-too-common claim people use to justify ignoring the widespread scientific agreement on climate change is, “The scientists were all predicting an ice age in the 70s, and that didn’t happen.”
Last year, a publishing climatologist, the highest category for an individual on our credibility spectrum, decided to investigate just how valid this claim was.
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Added by Kate on June 11, 2009 at 6:08pm —
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Climate change skeptics like to imply that Al Gore’s word is all we have going for us. That our faith in the theory is upheld simply because he supports it. That he’s brainwashed us all and we should think for ourselves. If it sounds like I’m exaggerating, go check out some YouTube comments – and even entire videos – dedicated to these concepts.
But the truth is, Al Gore could have never existed and the scientific theory of anthropogenic climate change would be the same as it is today.…
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Added by Kate on June 11, 2009 at 6:07pm —
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Why do so many people believe they’re more qualified on the topic of climate change than the climatologists themselves?
Visit Youtube, the editorial page of a newspaper, or even the blogosphere. All over places like these, where opinions can be expressed freely, there are countless people who
1) have little to no scientific training,
2) rely solely on the popular media for information on climate change,
3) are obviously unfamiliar with elementary principles of climatology, such as the Milank…
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Added by Kate on June 11, 2009 at 6:06pm —
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I read an interesting article not long ago that claimed that scientists were not debating climate change enough. It said that they were refusing to debate skeptics on television and in the media, as they “knew they would lose”. Examples of “believers” who apparently refused such debates were Al Gore, David Suzuki, and well-known climatologists such as Hansen and Weaver.
Could it be that these advocates are refusing debates not because they “know they will lose”, but because they know that such…
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Added by Kate on June 11, 2009 at 6:05pm —
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I’m not actually interested in changing the minds of climate skeptics.
If they’re stubborn enough that the work of NASA, 32 national academies of science, the IPCC, the World Meterological Society, and every other professional scientific organization on the planet can’t change their minds, the chance of a mere student like me having any influence on them isn’t really worth the time.
What I’m worried about is the average person.…
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Added by Kate on June 11, 2009 at 6:04pm —
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All issues have two (or more) sides. We can probably all agree on that. But are they always two equal sides?
Journalists are trained to always present both sides of an issue with equal weight. This works well for matters of politics. Got the Conservative? Get the Liberal. (That’s Republican and Democrat, respectively, for our American friends.) It works for policy – reporting the pros and cons of building a new bridge vs not building a new bridge. Journalistic balance is appropriate for matters…
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Added by Kate on June 11, 2009 at 6:03pm —
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Scientific error is unavoidable. There is a very good chance that whatever measurements we take will be slightly off. There is even a small chance that our conclusions are completely wrong. We accept that we don’t know everything. We live with it. We do the best we can.
Stating error and uncertainty is required in peer-reviewed science. Quite simply, it increases the author’s credibility. When you admit that you might be wrong, people feel more inclined to trust you. You seem like the kind of p…
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Added by Kate on June 11, 2009 at 6:02pm —
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You hear the term “scientific consensus” thrown around all the time in climate change. Al Gore claims absolute consensus. Many skeptics claim none at all. Earlier this year, Peter Doran and his student Maggie Zimmerman, from the University of Illinois, published the results of a poll aimed at quantifying the degree of scientific agreement on climate change.
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Added by Kate on June 11, 2009 at 6:01pm —
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Dr Stephen Schneider, of Stanford University, is a well-respected climatologist who is also quite active in the media and politics – chances are you’ve seen him in something like The 11th Hour, read one of his books, or read an interview with him in the newspaper. Chances are, you’ve also seen the following quote attributed to him:
On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. To do that we…
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Added by Kate on June 11, 2009 at 5:59pm —
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Let’s face it, there’s a lot of “climate science” out there that’s absolute rubbish.
Whichever side of the debate you’re on. Whether you believe global warming is a political hoax or that all skeptics are funded by Exxon. No matter what your opinions are, chances are that you’ve seen or read claims that you dismiss as outlandish.
Type “climate change” into Google. Within seconds you can find statements that the Earth is warming or that its temperatue is stable (or cooling since 1998!). You can…
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Added by Kate on June 11, 2009 at 5:30pm —
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Watch
this video.
"WonderingMind" forms an argument to take action on climate change that is infallible. Literally; try to find a hole in it.
Watch a few more of his videos, maybe check out
The Manpollo Project, then spread the word! To quote the Manpollo website, we need to "shift the question often asked in popular culture from "Are we certain we're responsible for global warming?" to "Given the risks…
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Added by Sean on May 25, 2009 at 11:49pm —
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Right now I'm in Brampton, Ontario and I'm slowly going crazy. I was asked to come here to babysit my six year old cousin, but since I came here, everyone else thought it would be a good idea to dump their kids on me too. I'm either at home alone and bored, or at home with almost half a dozen whiny kids around me.
I've been feeling very overwhelmed and I just don't know what to do anymore!
Solution? Grab a few plastic bags, a sharp pair of scissors and a pair of knitting needles and get busy!…
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Added by elle on May 22, 2009 at 3:00pm —
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Check out these cool Climate Change Podcasts!!
UNESCO
Power Shift
Climate change and adaptation in forestry
Manitoba’s First Municipal Building, Multiple Wind Turbine Installation
It's Everyone's World
Climate Change: Risk Management
Crazy Bag Lady
