We're pumping out CO2 to the point of no return. It's time to alter course

The Guardian by George Monbiot | Sep. 1, 2009 (Opinion)

Scientists now say peak temperatures will not fall back. Join me in taking the 10:10 pledge – it?s the best shot we?ve got left Until a few months ago, government targets for cutting greenhouse gases at least had the virtue of being wrong. They were the wrong targets, by the wrong dates, and they bore no relationship to the stated aim of preventing more than 2C of global warming. But they used a methodology that even their sternest critics (myself ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Subramanya Sastry - Sep 1, 2009 - 4:13 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Barry Grossheim (review), Dwight Rousu (review), Mindy Phypers (review), Geoff Fischer (review), Patricia Blochowiak (review), Tanya J. Maurer (review)
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 by Barry Grossheim - Sep. 1, 2009

Important information but not much fun to read unless perhaps you are a scientist.

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 by Patricia Blochowiak - Sep. 5, 2009

This is so poorly written that it's not useful, even though the concept of each of us pledging to decrease our carbon footprint by 10% [OR MORE] is a good idea.

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 by Dwight Rousu - Sep. 2, 2009

The topic is arguably more important than any other. Monbiot brings in information of new studies and a new action initiative in Britain.

governments’ hopes about the trajectory of temperature change are ill-founded. More »

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 by Mindy Phypers - Sep. 2, 2009

This is an important topic but the facts and reasoning leading to the authors conclusion are not well presented.

The 10 10 pledge (a pledge to reduce 10% of ones carbon footprint by 2010) is very important but this article is not one that I will forward to ... More »

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 by Tanya J. Maurer - Sep. 9, 2009
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 by Geoff Fischer - Sep. 3, 2009

No. Bias. Inaccurate.

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