I feel our news media has a solemn duty to properly keep these things in the public eye, so that people begin to understand the problem fully enough to change their behavours.

For example, many of the things we can do about global warming are, as simple as, turning out a light or offsetting our car usage; and if we add enough of them up, we can easily bring the world carbon emissions below that much talked about and little done 20% mark.

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Each country will be different, each country will have different resources we can apply to this increasing environmental degradation.

We can do it. We only think we don't handle change well. However, when the earth is at breaking point, we must adapt quickly or perish.

The world’s leading science journals report that glaciers are melting ten times faster than previously thought, that atmospheric greenhouse gases have reached levels not seen for millions of years, and that species are vanishing as a result of climate change. They also report of extreme weather events, long-term droughts, and rising sea levels.

Prof Ross Garnaut, author of an interim report on climate change, said yesterday Australia had to take the lead on dealing with climate change because it potentially faced the greatest dangers.

He also warned that tackling greenhouse emissions would drive up electricity prices, hit low-income earners and bite into the profits of major industries such as cement-making, and steel and aluminium smelting.

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The storms swept through Sydney last night bringing down trees and cutting power lines everywhere from Wollongong, in the south, to Blacktown, in the west.

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Organized in a fun, easy-to-read format, this collection of 50 simple acts can help in the fight against global warming. The steps outlined are the most effective, practical ways to make the shift from a fossil-fuels based society to an exemplary and self-sustaining world power.-->

"If every American household replaced 5 bulbs, it would save as much every as removing 8 million cars off of the road. " Carbon Friendly.com

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Yet research on solar power and methods for storing intermittent energy has long received less spending, both in the United States and in other industrialized countries, than energy options with more political support.

Indeed, there are few major programs looking for ways to drastically reduce the cost of converting sunlight to energy and — of equal if not more importance — of efficiently storing it for when the sun is not shining.

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The ocean's food chain is based upon the growth of billions upon billions of microscopic plants. New satellite data show that ocean warming is reducing these plants ---- thus imperiling ocean fisheries and marine life, according to an article in the Nov. 7 issue of the scientific journal Nature.

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Tropical highlands and polar regions may be the first to disappear, and large swaths of the tropics and subtropics will reach even hotter temperatures. The study anticipates large climate changes worldwide.

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The swift retreat of these great ice streams is helping to raise ocean levels and is threatening significant changes in human, animal, and plant life—some good, but mostly bad.

Like a canary in a coal mine, the dwindling of the glaciers is visible evidence that the earth really is getting hotter.

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Do we really want this to be our future?

Of course not, nor do we want the ice to melt at the Poles.