If you’ve read my blog for any amount of time, you know that I advocate low-carbon living as a key solution to the climate crisis. My position is more relevant than it was when I launched my blog in June of 2007. However, even as political leaders on several continents struggle with achieving low-carbon initiatives through legislation and treaty, humanity's abuse of fossil fuels and other environmental tragedies only worsen.
A key component in solving the larger problem, then, of reversing the trend toward lowered generation of carbon emissions to eventual carbon neutrality for everyone, is for businesses large and small to do their part. After all, it is commercial enterprises which drive much of our culture, both in the West and, increasingly, the East. However, it is a common failing among business owners and leaders to resist change if there is the slightest perceived risk of a loss of profit or an increase in expenses.
Until now, it has been difficult to argue with proprietors and boards of directors about the need to lower their carbon footprint because environmental advocates have lacked compelling data with which to make a cogent argument. The innovators at ClimateEarth.com have changed all of that.
Self-proclaimed experts in enterprise and supply chain carbon accounting, the good people at ClimateEarth.com have created tools which have solved a very large problem for the environmental community. Through these tools, we quite literally can account for the role of carbon in every aspect of an enterprise. I was overjoyed when I learned about the impressive accomplishments of ClimateEarth.com thus far and I am confident that they merely have begun.
The early successes of ClimateEarth.com in accounting for carbon in enterprise and supply chain activities have received many well deserved accolades and coverage by business news media. You can review an ample supply of relevant material on the company website. I exhort you to do so immediately.
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My being a global warming subject matter expert is not based merely on my extensive work on the topic, my attendance at global symposia or my status as a certified global warming presenter of the National Wildlife Federation. It also is based on the fact that I reside in Florida, a region on the front lines of climate change.
I first moved to Florida in 1987 to attend the University of Miami. While living there, I experienced my first autumn chill as a Floridian. In late November of 1987, temperatures dropped to near 40° F. Needless to say, I was shocked by the weather. Two years later, when I had relocated to Central Florida and lived in Winter Park, I experienced my first icy December, with Christmas temperatures hovering low enough to freeze a glass of tap water.
In both cases, Florida’s agriculture industry suffered billions of dollars of losses. Simply put, the subtropical climate of the Sunshine State is not supposed to see thermometers drop below 50° F at night during the winter. When they do, Floridians suffer.
January 2010 has seen record low temperatures not just in Florida but in patches across North America. Moreover, other nations in the Northern Hemisphere have seen record accumulations of snow, which have paralyzed commerce and transportation for millions. Can it be a coincidence that one of the coldest winter seasons on record came to pass in the age of global warming? Does this sequence of frigid days and icy nights throughout the Northern Hemisphere disprove the anthropogenic origin of global warming?
The simple answer is no. In fact, the opposite is true. It is for this reason that Nobel Prize Winner Al Gore prefers the term climate change over global warming. Short-term effects of climate change can appear to contradict the long-term trend and cause confusion. Let there be none. Global warming is real. Humanity’s abuse of its home is the primary cause and abnormally cold winters are just another symptom.
My assertion still begs one to inquire as to the cause of the hemispheric blizzard of January 2010, though. What truly is happening? The simple response is that our continued and accelerating damage to the atmosphere and the systems it uses to maintain breathable air and tolerable temperatures causes those planetary natural systems to become erratic and overcompensate from time to time. That is precisely the situation today. In March of last year, I wrote a post which pointed to new research on exactly how widespread the damage is.
In summary, while it is true that we are quite literally cooking ourselves with the billions of tons of carbon which we spew into the atmosphere every year, there is no guarantee that some of us won’t freeze to death before others suffer fatal heat exhaustion and dehydration this summer. Get used to bizarre weather because the hemispheric blizzard of January 2010 is just the beginning!
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