The worldwide event to call attention to climate change puts up its strongest numbers in the three-year history of Earth Hour. From the remote Chatham Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean to Sydney's Opera House to the Eiffel Tower to the Empire State Building to Seattle's Space Needle, lights dimmed for 1 hour in a symbolic call to change the Kyoto Protocol.
More than 15 million Filipinos were estimated to have joined Earth Hour on Saturday night and a total of 647 cities and town participated, making the Philippines number one among all the countries that joined the global event, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Philippine representative said on Sunday.
"Earth Hour Philippines is an astounding success," said Yeb Sano, WWF Philippines campaign manager, told the Philippine Daily Inquirer by phone.
Sano said the country ranking was based on the initial reports of WWF offices the world over.
Greece was second with 484 participating towns and cities.
Sano said the WWF Philippines noted a "very significant drop" in power consumption during Earth Hour but that the group was still "validating exact figures" from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
Earth Hour was a global effort encouraging people from all over the world to turn off electricity from 8:30 to 9:30 pm to raise awareness about the effects of climate change and global warming.
Only a million Filipinos were estimated to have joined the 2008 Earth Hour and the 10-fold jump in the number of participants in 2009 was attributed by Sano to the Filipinos' increasing awareness about climate change and its effects.
Sano added that WWF also stepped up its campaign for the 2009 Earth Hour.
He said the group networked with several other non-government organizations, government agencies, schools, a thousand private corporations as well as the media, which proved to be an effective strategy to disseminate information about Earth Hour.
Sano said WWF Philippines was still gathering data as reports from various parts of the country continued to come in as of Sunday afternoon.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Global Warming Book
Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore will publish a follow-up to his global warming awareness bestseller "An Inconvenient Truth" on Nov. 3.
The book will be called "Our Choice" and will describe solutions to global warming, the environmental crusader and U.S. publisher Rodale Inc. said in a statement on Tuesday.
"An Inconvenient Truth' reached millions of people with the message that the climate crisis is threatening the future of human civilization and that it must and can be solved," Gore said.
"Now that the need for urgent action is even clearer with the alarming new findings of the last three years, it is time for a comprehensive global plan that actually solves the climate crisis. 'Our Choice' will answer that call," he said.
Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his work to raise awareness about climate change and the same year also won an Academy Award for a documentary based on his slide show lecture and book "An Inconvenient Truth."
He said he will donate all proceeds from "Our Choice" to the Alliance for Climate Protection. (Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
The book will be called "Our Choice" and will describe solutions to global warming, the environmental crusader and U.S. publisher Rodale Inc. said in a statement on Tuesday.
"An Inconvenient Truth' reached millions of people with the message that the climate crisis is threatening the future of human civilization and that it must and can be solved," Gore said.
"Now that the need for urgent action is even clearer with the alarming new findings of the last three years, it is time for a comprehensive global plan that actually solves the climate crisis. 'Our Choice' will answer that call," he said.
Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his work to raise awareness about climate change and the same year also won an Academy Award for a documentary based on his slide show lecture and book "An Inconvenient Truth."
He said he will donate all proceeds from "Our Choice" to the Alliance for Climate Protection. (Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
Monday, March 23, 2009
Obama Warns of Global Warming
Didn't you know global warming could lead to disasters in the future? On Monday, US President Barack Obama acknowledge the current flood emergency int the Red River Valley.
The President having a sit-down interview with six hand-picked from around the country in the Roosevelt Room of the White House West Wing. This six are Alex Daniels, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; Jim Carroll, Louisville (Ky.) Courier Journal; Kevin Miller, Bangor (Maine) Daily News; Andrew Barksdale (back to camera), Fayette (N.C.) Observer; Janell Cole, Forum Communications Bismarck Capitol Bureau, and Robert Swift, Scranton (Penn.) Times and Tribune.
Among President's statements:
“I actually think the science around climate change is real. It is potentially devastating,”
“If you look at the flooding that’s going on right now in North Dakota and you say to yourself, ‘If you see an increase of 2 degrees, what does that do, in terms of the situation there?’ that indicates the degree to which we have to take this seriously,”
Obama talked about flooding and answering a question about North Dakotans being concerned how a “cap-and-trade” greenhouse gas reduction policy could hurt the state’s coal and power-generating industries.
Gov. John Hoeven ask for disaster declaration because there are always developing flodd emergency in the state.
The President having a sit-down interview with six hand-picked from around the country in the Roosevelt Room of the White House West Wing. This six are Alex Daniels, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; Jim Carroll, Louisville (Ky.) Courier Journal; Kevin Miller, Bangor (Maine) Daily News; Andrew Barksdale (back to camera), Fayette (N.C.) Observer; Janell Cole, Forum Communications Bismarck Capitol Bureau, and Robert Swift, Scranton (Penn.) Times and Tribune.
Among President's statements:
“I actually think the science around climate change is real. It is potentially devastating,”
“If you look at the flooding that’s going on right now in North Dakota and you say to yourself, ‘If you see an increase of 2 degrees, what does that do, in terms of the situation there?’ that indicates the degree to which we have to take this seriously,”
Obama talked about flooding and answering a question about North Dakotans being concerned how a “cap-and-trade” greenhouse gas reduction policy could hurt the state’s coal and power-generating industries.
Gov. John Hoeven ask for disaster declaration because there are always developing flodd emergency in the state.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Global Warming 101
Global warming could do more than just melt polar ice. It could change our maps, and displace people from cities and tropical islands.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Antarctica Ice Melting Fast
GLOBAL WARNING - Antarctica Ice Melting Fast Global Warming Potential Sea Level Rise of 75 Metres
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