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"Yet the oxygen content of the atmosphere is progressively being reduced, and its carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas content is being rapidly increased. Since the middle of the nineteenth century oxygen has decreased mainly due to the burning of coal; it now dips to 19 percent of total volume over impacted areas and to 12 to 17 percent over major cities. At 6 or 7 percent of total volume, life can no longer be sustained. At the same time the share of greenhouse gases is growing." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Water vapor itself is a greenhouse gas; as the air becomes warmer and more moist, the heat trapped in the tropical regions will increase even further. Deforestation does not help, either; it reduces the biosphere's capacity to absorb carbon dioxide. Moreover, the warmer the world becomes, the faster dead vegetation will decay, both on land and in the sea, further speeding the release of greenhouse gases. As a result of these and other feedback loops, the earth's temperature may rise much more rapidly than we initially suspected." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"The situation is even worse in New Zealand, where a whopping 60% of greenhouse gas emissions come from livestock. vomiting blood, and bloody stools. (See The Scoop on Poop, below.) Finally, excessive burping with severe nausea or vomiting may be danger signs of a heart attack. FREQUENT FARTING Farting probably provokes more laughter and embarrassment than any other normal bodily function. Because of the sounds and smells that often accompany farts, they're hard to hide. Excessive gas in the digestive system is medically known as flatulence or flatus." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Bali—acknowledged that evidence for global warming is "unequivocal" and that delays in reducing greenhouse gas emissions increase the risk of "severe climate change impacts." Although the U.S. continued to show reluctance to accept the economic costs and consequences of cutting emissions, no country in the world could contest any longer that ominous changes in the climate are actually taking place and that coping with them calls for urgent internationally orchestrated action." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"At a major conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992, 154 nations agreed on an important convention that called for a stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to prevent human inference with global climate. The Rio de Janeiro conference and a 1997 meeting in Kyoto, Japan, have generated vigorous controversy among nations and intense lobbying by special interests, especially large global corporations involved with oil production. Global warming now appears as a topic on political agendas." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "By some accounts, the reductions proposed by the Kyoto Protocol are not nearly enough to deal with the problems of greenhouse gas emissions. In 1995 the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change called for greenhouse emissions to be cut immediately by 50-70%. But instead the level of emissions has continued to grow rapidly, with most of the increase coming from the developing countries. It is impossible to predict the ultimate cost to individuals and corporations of efforts to reduce emissions or to deal with other global limits to growth." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Because CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the more of it there is in the atmosphere the warmer the climate will become. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) These CFCs, used widely in industry and especially as a refrigerant in air-conditioning systems, are commonly known as freon. There are several commercial forms of freon; all are greenhouse gases. The latest form of freon being used extensively is designated R134. An older form, R12, was used as a solvent and in air conditioners through the 1990s (and is still used in some countries)." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Thanks to the sweeping green consciousness, companies are dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, often exceeding the Kyoto Protocol targets.26 Alcoa, a world leader in aluminum manufacturing, committed to reducing emissions by 25 percent from 1990 levels by 2010, and by 50 percent from 1990 levels over the same period if their inert anode technology yields anticipated energy savings. "A key factor in reducing greenhouse emissions is energy efficiency," according to John Pizzey, Aloca executive vice president in a September 30, 2002, speech to his employees. " - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Don't use chemical pesticides or fertilizers—they are a source of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas. 5. Use your dishwasher's no-heat or air-drying cycle. 6. Avoid overdrying your clothes. 7. Keep your air conditioner set no lower than seventy-five degrees during summer—each degree cooler uses 3 to 5 percent more energy. 8. Use ceiling fans to cut down on summer heat. 9. Close your blinds and curtains during hot summer days to keep the home cooler. 10. Save energy and reduce heat by turning off lights, appliances, and electrical equipment. 11." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"There may be another interesting use for algae: getting the critters to eat carbon dioxide (the greenhouse gas emitted when we burn fossil fuels like coal and oil) and then turning them into biofuels. Chemical engineer Isaac Berzin has developed a method of capturing the carbon dioxide from smokestack emissions using algae. His process, based on technology he developed for NASA in the late 1990s, captures more than 40 percent of emitted C02 (on sunny days, up to 80 percent)." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Understandably, Angelenos remedy the situation by cranking their AC, but that costs them an arm and a leg, not to mention releasing copious amounts of greenhouse gas into the air. A more economical remedy? We can plant more trees around our houses. Shade trees not only cool down our homes, but they also generate oxygen, limit soil erosion, and beautify our neighborhoods. Careful planting strategies, such as arranging the trees to provide maximum Green Roofs mbmm While we worry and complain that cities are running out of room, we sit underneath a vast amount of unused space." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire have passed binding limits on power plant C02, while Northeast states are coming together to shape a mini-Kyoto to cap power sector emissions through the Regional greenhouse gas Initiative. California, Washington, and Oregon are working toward a similar framework through the West Coast Governors Climate Initiative. Overall, about 30 percent of the American population lives in states or cities that either have adopted or are set to adopt policies in accord with the Kyoto protocols." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"For example, a call is rising aimed at the producers of goods to reduce energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, air and water pollution, and waste from unnecessary packaging. Companies are made up of people, members of the community, and more and more are recognizing that in a global economy environmental problems and human problems are everyone's problem. The supply of products can only be sustained if the living Earth and its communities are revered and protected." - Ray Dodd, BeliefWorks: The Art of Living Your Dreams (Get the book.)

"Given that sea level rise is an irreversible process, which will take millennia to stabilise even if greenhouse gas levels are controlled, refugee cities may themselves become endangered and submerged in decades and centuries to come. In today's cities, many of the finest and most treasured buildings are many hundreds of years old; in the future coastal buildings may last only a matter of decades before the rising waters begin to approach once again." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "Partly these future temperature rises will be the result of emissions already in the past, and pardy they will reflect rapid expected rises in greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. That we can avoid higher temperature increases by cutting back emissions is a key point that I seek to illustrate in this book. Although I have done my best to ensure that the correct impact studies are presented in the correct chapters, there are occasions when the decision about what to put where is somewhat arbitrary." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "Different studies using the same future C02 concentrations do not necessarily share the same temperature projections, moreover: all models have different 'sensitivities' to atmospheric greenhouse gas increases, further complicating the procedure. It is important to emphasise, however, that all of the material in this book comes from the peer-reviewed scientific literature - at no point do I base predictions on less reliable sources like newspaper articles or campaign group press releases. It is also important to note that the IPCC's landmark 1.4 to 5." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Very often what you see on the label can quickly tell you whether the product you are purchasing is good for you and good for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. For example, a label that lists preservatives such as any of the parabens (methyl, ethyl, butyl, or propyl), quaternium-15 (one of the leading causes of allergic reactions in cosmetics) or other quaternium-based compounds, diazolidinyl urea, imida-zolidinyl urea, methylchloroisothiazolone, or isochlorothiazi-line should signal to you that this is a product heavy on the petrochemicals and toxins you want to avoid." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"That said, however, carbon dioxide is certainly an effective greenhouse gas, and the amount of carbon dioxide as a percentage of the atmosphere today has not been so high since the days of the dinosaurs. By putting large quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, humans are exerting pressure on an inherently unstable climate system that might produce a drastic change without much prior warning." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"In 2005, Ford issued a first-of-its-kind comprehensive report that examined the business implications of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from Ford vehicles, as well as the facilities that produce them.12 The new reality that began to emerge in 2005, however, "really hurt everybody who was making the big bucks selling SUVs," said Mary Anne Wright, director of Sustainable Mobility Technologies and Hybrid Vehicle Programs at Ford." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"First, it showed that global warming could begin to generate its own momentum if a previously unforeseen positive feedback - a vicious circle by which warming would release more greenhouse gas, causing more warming and thereby more gas to be released in an unstoppable spiral - came into effect. This, the 'carbon cycle feedback' referred to in the paper's title, would potentially leave human beings as powerless bystanders in a devastating runaway global warming scenario." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"The limitations on energy use agreed to by the signatories of the Kyoto accord have given a huge boost to European development of more efficient technology and alternative energy sources like wind and solar, which are growing yearly in the double digits and offering new export markets, while helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions. By contrast, the United States was arguing against change at a time when citizens on both continents were calling for greater environmental sensitivity in the marketplace. As C." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"Carbon Dioxide Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas that is normally found in the atmosphere. As we use oxygen, we generate carbon dioxide, which is exhaled with each breath. Luckily for us, plants that use photosynthesis need this carbon dioxide to live. They take it in, use it, and excrete oxygen. This has been a good relationship. At present, the concentration in the air is around 360 parts per million (ppm). This varies with location and season (it's a bit higher in the summer)." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"China is second only to the United States as a greenhouse gas emitter. At the end of 2006, it released its first-ever report on the effects of climate change. The China Meteorological Administration predicted that the average temperature in China would rise by 1.3 to 2.1 degrees Celsius by 2020, and by 2.3 to 3.3 degrees Celsius by 2050. It forecast increasingly violent weather patterns that could lead to declining crop yields of as much as one third by the end of the century." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"Wind power is a clean, renewable source of energy, which produces no greenhouse gas emissions or waste products. One modern wind rurbine can save more than four thousand tons of C02 emissions in comparison to a power station producing the same amount of electricity. Over the past decade, Europe has taken the lead in the development and promotion of wind power; Germany and Denmark obtain more than 30 percent and 15 percent of their total electricity needs, respectively, from wind power." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"In addition to posing danger to humans attempting to mine it, methane freed into the atmosphere is a ten times more effective greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Released in any quantity, it would accelerate the problem of climate change. So far, attempts to recover methane hydrates have resulted in releases of methane into the atmosphere proportionately much greater than the gas recovered in the process. Zero-Point Energy (ZPE) This is an arcane process posed theoretically by quantum physicists. It has been called "the ultimate quantum free lunch." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"What many people do not realize is that according to the EPA, the world's livestock herds are the largest single source of emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas contributing to ozone depletion and climate change. We hope that these concerns about livestock farms will encourage you to eat a moderate amount of the foods described in this chapter. If you choose to eat meat, we encourage you to: • Limit your intake to no more than 3 to 4 ounces daily—about the size of a deck of playing cards." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.)

"Other sources say transportation carbon dioxide emissions account for one-third of all carbon dioxide emissions, "more than from factories, homes, and all other individual sources."16) The industry's emissions are currently on track to rise by over one-third over the next fifteen years and double worldwide by 2050. If this happens, some experts say they will exacerbate the current global warming trend.17 It doesn't take a Ralph Nader to know that federal officials and consumers have shown a decided lack of leadership when it comes to fleet fuel economy standards in the nineties." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, has increased by 30% in the earth's atmosphere in the past 150 years, contributing to global warming,32 and a cascade of environmental complications. Chlorofluorocarbons have caused significant damage to the earth's stratospheric ozone layer,33 which provides a protective shield for us against the UV radiation from the sun. Man-made emissions of sulfur and nitrogen are producing acid rain, resulting significant agricultural crop damage and land degradation." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.)

"This approach has been approved for international trading in emissions under the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and also has been used in other sectors in the United States, such as trading in water use reduction permits in California. Macroeconomics Macroeconomics is the top-down study of the economy as a whole: output, employment, price levels, and rate of growth. It provides ways to analyze such issues as levels of output, business cycles, inflation and deflation, short- and long-term unemployment, exports, and economic development." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

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