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"All of our climate models tell us that warming is inevitable if the concentration of greenhouse gases continues to increase at its present rate. Antarctic ice cores have trapped air bubbles that date back long before the Industrial Revolution. These bubbles show that carbon dioxide levels have risen sharply since 1850. Other greenhouse gases have increased at the same time, including methane, generated by the rise in human populations and dramatic increases in rice paddy agriculture and cattle herding." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"At the same time the share of greenhouse gases is growing. Two hundred years of burning fossil fuels and cutting down large tracts of forest has increased the atmosphere's carbon dioxide content from about 280 parts per million to over 350 parts per million. The influx of gases from human activity is paralleled by the growing influx of gases from nature, which is now largely triggered by human activity." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"In addition, a report by the United Nations (2006) concluded that cattle-rearing generates more global warming greenhouse gases than even transportation. Anyone who has seen the documentary film An Inconvenient Truth is aware of the serious repercussions of this environmental issue. Finally, raw plant food simply tastes betterl Even if it were discovered that raw meat were definitely healthful and better for the ecology, I would remain a vegetarian because of the sheer pleasure of eating fresh raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The level of concern with the adverse effects of these emissions has been such that the 1997 Kyoto Protocol proposed that thirty-eight industrially advanced countries of the world cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by an average of 5.2% of 1990 levels during the period from 2008 to 2012. The protocol called for the creation a global emission trading scheme that would set a market price on emissions and help foster an orderly distribution of the burden of the controls." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Other greenhouse gases have increased at the same time, including methane, generated by the rise in human populations and dramatic increases in rice paddy agriculture and cattle herding. Some people see the dramatic warming of the past two decades as a sign that anthropogenic global warming is already affecting our weather. Others take a longer view and point out that the present warm temperatures are no more extreme than those of the Medieval Warm Period of 800 years ago." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"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. Summarizing this runaway scenario in the British science magazine New Scientist, John Gribbin has warned that if this happens, "the greenhouse threat facing us is worse than any forecaster has yet dared to imagine." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Such "green" packaging reduces energy use, greenhouse gases, and non- or poorly degradable waste currently disposed of in landfills. Procter & Gamble, Estee Lauder and its Origins and Aveda companies, and the Australia-based packaging specialist Plantic are now taking the lead in the development and use of "green" packaging with 100 percent post-consumer recycled packaging. These and related initiatives have been supported by Green Blue, a nonprofit organization that operates the Sustainable Packaging Coalition." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"A 2006 report issued by the United Nations stated that the world's livestock generate more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation industry. Henning Steinfeld, et al. Livestocks Long Shadow:Environmental Issues and Options. A report published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Rome: FAO, 2006). Available online at http://www.virtualcentre .org/en/library/key pub/longshad/A070lE00.htm. tages and disadvantages of being at the top of the food chain: It accumulates and concentrates many of the nutrients in the environment but also many of the toxins." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"The combustion of fossil fuel to create energy in turn creates greenhouse gases. It is now commonly accepted among climatologists and other experts that greenhouse gases contribute to global warming. With the rising environmental cost of extracting and burning oil, not to mention its cost in dollars, the search for alternative energy sources is on. Although there are alternatives that may help marginally reduce our dependence on oil over the coming years, no great savior is in sight." - Brendan Brazier, The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life (Get the book.)

"China is also the second largest producer of greenhouse gases on the planet (China 2004). China already has such an impact on the earth that it's hard to imagine a bright green future that doesn't depend upon its complete transformation. It can't simply copy the West. A China of SUVs, suburbs, and careless consumption would be a planetary ecological nightmare and would very quickly become a Chinese tragedy." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Carbon Offsets ¦¦¦¦ There's a limit to how much people can do to reduce the greenhouse gases they put into the air. Even the most ecoconscious people need to fly, to drive, or to do things (like buy groceries) that require other people to fly or drive. But that doesn't mean you simply have to accept the resulting carbon emissions without doing something to help. "Carbon offsets" let you underwrite activities that actively reduce global C02 emissions, thereby balancing out your personal emissions." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "The oceans are likely to bear the brunt of global warming, hit especially hard by a "thermal inertia" that will cause ocean temperatures to keep rising for years—even after we finally stop dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. JC Plankton, Reefs, and the Undersea "Canaries" mb How do you feel about phytoplankton? You should be a big fan. These microscopic creatures swim around at the bottom of the ocean food chain, and are pretty much the closest thing on the planet to a foundation for life. They feed the ocean's animals. They also produce around half of the oxygen in our atmosphere." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Celsius) during the past century, according to a recent NASA report on global warming, and the connection linking this heating trend to the release of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide from human activities that burn coal, oil, gasoline, and natural gas, is beyond dispute. Nature recently reported that the concentration of C02 is higher now than it has been at any time in the past 650,000 years—a substantial share of Homo sapiens' tenure on earth." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"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. Apart from the levels of greenhouse gases, the causes of climate change probably include periodic variations in the sun's radiation, variations in the earth's orbit, volcanic activity and particulate matter in the atmosphere, and the extremely complex interplay of the oceans and the atmosphere that circulates heat and cold around the planet." - 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.)

"If every farmer in the United States were to adopt no-till practices and plant cover crops, American agriculture could squirrel away as much as 300 million tons of carbon in the soil each year, turning farms into net carbon sinks, rather than sources of greenhouse gases. While this would not solve the problem of global warming—the soil can hold only so much carbon—increasing soil carbon would help buy time to deal with the toot of the problem. Adoption of no-till practices on the world's 1." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"And Haywood drew the obvious conclusion: 'Our findings are critical to understanding how climate may respond to emissions of greenhouse gases in the future.' The simulated Pliocene has some clear warning signs for today. According to Dr Haywood's model, both the Arctic and the Antarctic became seasonally ice-free. Winter ice was also vastly reduced. Since ice at the poles acts like a giant mirror reflecting away the Sun's heat, its disappearance works together with carbon dioxide to keep the planet warmer." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "Clearly, at this point of time to do things that are expensive and which will impede our economic growth just to cut down on emissions of greenhouse gases would be something the Indian public would not accept,' Pachauri admitted recently. One of the few Indians still to quote Gandhi's epithet 'Be the change you want to see in the world', Pachauri is unusual in stopping to think during the headlong national rush to get rich." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"It's a great way to eat healthy foods and cut down on transportation-related greenhouse gases. Visit www.freshdirect.com. In Southern California, Pax Organica delivers certified organic produce once a week. Visit www.paxoorganica.com. Nationally, Wild Oats is working with the online grocer Peapod to deliver about five hundred Wild Oats-brand foods to home delivery customers in the Chicago area. Visit www.peapod.com or www.wildoats.com.39 Participate in community-supported agriculture (CSA), and support local farms." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"What has happened before can happen again, argued Hansen, especially given today's enormous atmospheric loading of greenhouse gases, whose climatic impact far outweighs the tiny orbital changes which govern the ice-age-to-interglacial transitions. Just as they were in the past, ice sheet changes in the future could be - to use Hansen's phrase - 'explosively rapid'. Hansen had little support, however, until the following year, when a European modelling team put an actual figure on Greenland's critical melt threshold: 2.7°C." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Environmental Protection Agency administrator Stephen Johnson announced talks with Chinese officials to develop an emissions-trading market in sulfur-dioxide emissions, a market-driven strategy that has been highly successful in reducing acid rain in North America but has had little effect on greenhouse gases." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"Actually, the situation is worse than this crude calculation suggests, because temperature rises are higher in mountain regions than the global average thanks to the way that greenhouse gases behave higher in the atmosphere. There is only one conclusion: Lima's natural water towers are doomed to dry up. So how will the city's inhabitants cope? Experience suggests that the poorest will be hit first." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"The more energy used to produce food, the more greenhouse gases created. • As individuals, the single greatest thing that we can do to preserve environmental health is to base our diet on primary-source foods. • Simply by changing our eating habits we can significantly reduce pollution, and in doing so improve our health and the health of generations to come. • Supporting companies that have environmental consciousness will help make their standards the new benchmark of food production. four exercise for lifelong health It is possible to grow a younger body." - Brendan Brazier, The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life (Get the book.)

"The world's livestock now produces at least 10 percent of all the greenhouse gases. In other words, emissions from livestock have become a significant source of atmospheric methane. As of 1990, domestic animals currently account for about 15 percent of the annual anthropogenic methane emissions, and the number has been steadily increasing ever since. • Eighty-five percent of the topsoil lost in the USA each year is directly associated with the raising of livestock. In this way, 4 million acres of cropland is destroyed every year." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"If every household chose just a single 500-pack of their one-ply napkins over their usual nonrecycled brand, we would save 120,930 tons. ?Doing the same with a 12-pack of 400-sheet, two-ply bathroom tissue would save 170,317 tons. ?According to Seventh Generation's Web site, "Altogether, from bathroom tissue to facial tissue, if everyone from coast to coast replaced their non-recycled paper products with the recycled equivalent version, the Earth would achieve a savings of 666,369 tons of greenhouse gases." Starbucks, the coffee empire, has more than eight thousand stores worldwide." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "With Canada, I could actually get a handle on how one man with a vision was changing an entire nation, the ninth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.2 In Los Angeles you could forget your environment, forget the San Gabriel or Angeles Crest mountains, because the mountains, often removed or made into ghostly unreal images by a film of smog, looked like papier-mache props on a giant set. Everyone knew this was a set. In Los Angeles, man was huge, and his selfish dreams were nourished because everyone took their cut." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"It is now commonly accepted among climatologists and other experts that greenhouse gases contribute to global warming. With the rising environmental cost of extracting and burning oil, not to mention its cost in dollars, the search for alternative energy sources is on. Although there are alternatives that may help marginally reduce our dependence on oil over the coming years, no great savior is in sight." - Brendan Brazier, The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life (Get the book.)

"The same amount of carbon dioxide emitted from the tail pipe is the same as consumed by plants when they're growing, essentially causing no new greenhouse gases. It's basically lower in every other particulate toxin except for one. It's the cleanest fuel that's available today." We wouldn't expect a movie star to hold such strong convicrions, so naturally we asked what "drove" her to use such an alternative fuel choice. Daryl was direct. "Obviously, we have limited fossil fuel supplies. That's not even negotiable." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"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). When released into the atmosphere, all forms of freon eventually rise into the stratosphere. Through reaction with other atmospheric chemicals, freon has reduced the amount of ozone (O3). This ozone layer is a protective shield against harmful solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation." - 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.)

"This climate and atmospheric management has come about by the cooperation of all of the world's nations, international governing bodies, environmental organizations, corporations, scientists and citizens all working together to effect creative solutions. greenhouse gases, industrial air pollution and vehicle emissions are controlled or transformed. Jungle deforestation is halted and recovery measures put in place. Companies found ways of neutralizing their waste, using less fuel and employing alternative energy sources." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"The rise in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is a direct consequence of modern development, principally from three activities: intensive fossil fuel combustion, the use of chlorofluorocarbons, and recent massive deforestation in the tropics. The current rate of greenhouse gas emissions will cause changes that may quickly outpace our ability to adapt to increased heat and drought, rising sea levels, and changes in agriculture. The emissions of greenhouse gases must be lowered in the near future to avoid catastrophic changes in climate, sea level, food production, and life on Earth." - H. Patricia Hynes, Earth Right (Get the book.)

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