What You Can Do to Help Solve the Climate Crisis

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October/November 2006
By Al Gore 
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OFFSET EMMISSIONS
It is virtually impossible to eliminate our personal contributions to the climate crisis through reducing emissions alone. You can, however, reduce your impact to the equivalent of zero emissions by purchasing carbon offsets. When you purchase carbon offsets, you are funding a project that reduces greenhouse gas emissions elsewhere by, for example, increasing energy efficiency, developing renewable energy, restoring forests or sequestering carbon in soil. For more information, visit the Carbon Emissions Offset Directory.

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Be a Catalyst for Change

Our actions to help solve the climate crisis can extend well beyond the ways we personally reduce our emissions. By continuing to learn about the state of the environment and what is being done about it, we can inform and inspire others to action. We can bring awareness to our neighborhoods, schools and workplaces, and find ways to implement programs in these and other communities. As consumers, we can use our purchasing and investing power to send messages of support to corporations and outlets that show integrity and leadership. As citizens of a democracy, we can support candidates who show a record of environmental responsibility. We can lobby in support of programs and actions that advance global cooperation on this issue. To learn more about where politicians and candidates stand on global warming, visit www.lcv.org/scorecard. Get the facts and make sure your voice is heard!

For more information on global climate change, see An Inconvenient Truth.
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  • Rebecca 4/23/2009 9:31:21 AM

    Even if the global warming issue WAS a hoax, that's no reason for us to be wasteful and oblivious to the consumption of energy. The pollution of our planet is an ongoing concern, global warming or not. Our consumerist society needs to wake up and smell the burning plastic.

  • George Works 8/10/2008 10:25:19 AM

    This is a really fine article that lists most of the high-impact ways to reduce CO2 emissions and avoids most of the bogus ones.

    Some other things that I've done to reduce emissions are install a solar water heater, install solar electric panels on my roof, and convert my pickup to electric drive (in process).

    I live in the tropics; electric water heat was my highest electrical load. I replaced the electric heater with a solar one and have since had plenty of hot water, even on cloudy days. The water is so hot that I had to install a mixing valve to avoid scalding people. The water heater paid for itself in two years.

    My solar panels run in grid-interactive mode, pumping power into the grid when the sun shines and using power from the grid when it doesn't. I can't say that the solar electric has paid for itself yet, but I get a lot of satisfaction from doing my part to cut emissions.

    I'm a retired engineer and AAAS member. I follow the science on global warming closely. I wish I could believe it is a hoax, but I'm convinced that it is very real.

  • samantha 8/6/2008 1:41:48 PM

    Thank goodness there are others out there that like this magazine AND know global warming is a hoax!

  • Buck 7/30/2008 12:16:35 AM

    I can't beleave that you people have fallen for the biggest hoax in history.

    The Artic ice melts every year IN THE SUMMER !! It freezes every winter, duh.

    The polar bears float out to sea on ice-flows to hunt for seals or fish. When they're done, they swim up to fifty miles back to the solid ice pack.

    In 1992 the estimated polar bear count was about 5,000. In 2006 the count was over 25,000 !

    When a real global warming starts, it goes on for 800 years before carbon emissions start to rise.

    The antartica ice-pack is growing larger.

    Since 1999, geological surveys, found no HOT SPOTS!!

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