Climate Code Red - a Mandate for Action

Dear Visitors to My Site,

I am sending two things this morning out of the passion in my heart for this Earth and out of my profound sense that we must acknowledge climate change and get to work to save our planet and our lives.

Think of living in the desert as Ground Zero for climate change. We are running out of water and everyone knows it but is afraid to talk about it for fear of causing panic. Yet citizens here are panicking because they do not see one leader with gumption enough to face facts. Only doing that will we have a chance of turning this around in time.

First watch this video of a elephant who paints her image:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LHoyB81LnE

Is this not a message? What are we losing if life on Earth is destroyed?

Then go to this link to read the Climate Code Red Report. It is long and comprehensive but it is a MUST read for all of us. Put aside your doubts. We are at a point of no return and our job now is to create the political and social will to act together to reduce carbon emissions dramatically.
http://www.climatecodered.net/ Save the PDF then read it over the next week.

The consensus is that we must reduce carbon parts per million to 320 ppm to enter a safe climate zone. We are at 385 parts per million now. What is happening is a series of interrelated factors that are reinforcing heating so that events are happening much faster than predicted. Most scientists now say the IPCC reports that won the Nobel Peace Prize were too conservative and racked by political and economic pressures to be conservative in their estimates.

The catastrophic impacts we predicted for future generations will happen (are happening) in our generation and nothing short of the survival of the biosphere is now in question. Business as usual is over. Don't be fooled.

I am no longer worried about being called crazy or overly dramatic. That attitude and not paying attention to world wide events such as the loss of polar ice (50% reduction in just two years!) - that is insane.

Please read this. Let's discuss what we each need to do to create that will to change course, and what each of us must prepare for in our various regions. Those of you living in the east where decent public transportation is available are so lucky you have no idea.

Don't panic. Just sit down and read. Action will help us stay settled. But we all need to get ready to show up at our leaders' doorsteps. Use your intuition. Ask questions. Why aren't we leading the world in dealing with this?

See the link on this blog for the Pew Climate Center where you can find other important research results and recommended policy decisions.

In faith that we will act as a human community for not only ourselves and our own, but for all life on this Earth we share. It's time. The time is NOW.

Susan