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RELEASE VICTORY! UN to Impose Geoengineering Moratorium on Risky Climate Techno-Fixes

October 28, 2010August 25, 2021 Dr. Glen Barry 3 Comments

Major victory for common sense as hacking of planetary ecosystems is premature until such time as all other options are exhausted; and there are global protocols, consensus and a sound scientific basis for any geoengineering that may or may not occur. This is the 8th major conservation victory for EcoInternet (EI) in 2010, though chronic…

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RELEASE: Geo-Engineering and Biochar: White Roofs, Black Dust and Slippery Slopes

June 2, 2009August 25, 2021 Dr. Glen Barry 6 Comments

PRESS/SOCIAL MEDIA RELEASE
– Climate Engineers Seek Techno-fix As Global Negotiations Get Underway
June 2, 2009
By ETC Group, Biofuelwatch and Earth's Newsdesk, a project of EcoInternet (EI)
CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu's speech last week advocating painting rooftops and roadways white to reflect sunlight may be yet another attempt to test the international waters on the controversial subject of geoengineering [search].[1] “We need an unequivocal statement from the White House that the U.S. Government is not green-lighting geoengineering in the run-up to Copenhagen,” said Pat Mooney, Executive Director of ETC Group, an Ottawa-based civil society organization monitoring new technologies. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meets in Denmark this December; UNFCCC subsidiary bodies are meeting this week and next in Bonn, Germany. “Benign as a new planetary paint job may appear, white rooftops may be the thin edge of the wedge – a technology that seems harmless but that opens the door to riskier geoengineering schemes,” suggests Mooney.[2] Geoengineering refers to the intentional, large-scale manipulation of the earth's environment, primarily to counteract the effects of climate change.

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VICTORY! California Leads in Saying No to Deforestation Biofuels

April 24, 2009August 25, 2021 Dr. Glen Barry 7 Comments

California is setting the precedent of regulating greenhouse gas emissions from transport fuels [ark]. The regulation requires producers, refiners and importers of gasoline and diesel to reduce the carbon footprint of their fuel by 10% over the next decade. And it launches the state on an ambitious path toward cutting its overall heat-trapping emissions by…

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RELEASE: United States Starts Down Long, Difficult Road to Sufficient Climate Change Policy

April 17, 2009August 25, 2021 Dr. Glen Barry 9 Comments

By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of EcoInternet
CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
(Earth) — EcoInternet (EI) welcomes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ruling today that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases “may endanger public health or welfare”, a finding that opens the door to future regulation of such emissions under the Clean Air Act. EI continues to demand that emission cuts be fast and large, that Congress not weaken planned E.P.A. carbon regulation, and that Congress abandon cap and trade legislation for a simple, highly effective, carbon tax. And that the U.S. leads at Copenhagen or feel the consequences.
The E.P.A said in its proposed endangerment finding that “based on rigorous, peer-reviewed scientific analysis of six gases -; carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride -; that… these gases are at unprecedented levels as a result of human emissions, and these high levels are very likely the cause of the increase in average temperatures and other changes in our climate.” Human health and welfare was thus threatened by increased severity and intensity of storms; more frequent drought, heatwaves, and forest fires; rising sea levels; and harm to water resources, agriculture, wildlife and ecosystems.

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RELEASE: Global Civil Society Opposes Charred Earth Policy

April 6, 2009August 25, 2021 Dr. Glen Barry 9 Comments

147 organisations from 44 countries warn against 'biochar' (large-scale charcoal) as a dangerous new false solution to climate change
TAKE ACTION: Tell Leading Climate Scientists, Industrialists and Negotiators to Stop Promoting Industrial Scale Biochar
By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of EcoInternet
CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
(Earth) — An international declaration was today launched by 147 organisations, including EcoInternet, opposing the growing hype and political support for Biochar. The groups signing the declaration “strongly oppose the inclusion of soils in carbon trade and offset mechanisms, including in the Clean Development Mechanism." The groups further assert that “the 'biochar' initiative fails to address the root causes of climate change." [1]
Those issuing this warning range from small farmers associations and forest protection groups to international environmental networks and human rights advocates. Further organizations are being invited to sign the declaration. EcoInternet has independently organized a protest alert questioning whether enough “waste biomass” and “degraded and marginal” lands exist to carry out geoengineering of the Earth's land and climate at the scale proposed, and without intensifying industrial tree plantations and all their attendant problems. [2]

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Climate, Rainforest and Other Environmental Impacts of Corn Ethanol Gaining Prominence

April 3, 2009August 25, 2021 Dr. Glen Barry No Comments

Over a year ago, the U.S. Congress passed a law requiring massive increases in the production of ethanol and other biofuels. The Renewable Fuel Standard [search], passed as part of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, requires the nation to produce 36 billion gallons of biofuels [search] by 2022. At the moment, most…

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