Prevent Climate Change

Min Makes the news!

2006-05-23T10:07:00.000-07:00

Here is an article from the local Hanover paper, good job min!

Poster for Dirty Sock Contest

2006-05-19T08:39:00.000-07:00

Kudos to Sue Hall for making this! Looks great!

Dirty Sock Contest

2006-05-19T08:19:00.000-07:00

Well, Min was nice enough to send me a picture of the front of the dealership window, advertising the dirty sock contest. Looks like this event will be a hit!

Climate Change could kill millions

2006-05-18T08:50:00.000-07:00

A recent report states that disease spread by global warming could kill 185 million Africans by the end of the century and turn millions into refugees.

So far, global temperatures have increased by .6 degrees in the last century and it is estimated with the explosion of car use and the emergence of China that the temperature could raise as much as 3 degrees by the end of this century. Proving disasterious for the Earth and its inhabitants.

Global Warming, it is believed would allow mosquitoes to expand their regions because of the high temperatures, thereby spreading diseases such as West Nile and Yellow Fever to places that it has never been before.

Along with this, as the ice caps melt they erode coastlines and raise sea levels, reducing the reliable sources of fresh water. Along with this, more floods and roughts and you have a climate out of control. With less fresh water, there is a real possibility for fights between countries trying to secure it for themselves.

Where once nations fought for oil (which in turn cause the global warming), they will then fight for water. So Canadians, think about this, we have a great deal of fresh water, we have a superpower to the south that will want it....perhaps our relationship with them won't be so rosey.

Want the deaths of millions on your consicounce? if not, join our protest. Contact me renfunk@gmail.com to learn what you can do.

The Renegade.

Kyoto Talks

2006-05-16T07:29:00.000-07:00

They are doing talks right now to extend the treaty and have naturally picked someone who is forefront in combatting climate change at all costs.

Rona Ambrose.

Yep, the Environment minister who cut funding to climate change programs, canceled the one tonne challenge, and said (with Stephen Harper) that Canada had no plan to follow the Kyoto Accord, is naturally heading up the committee to extend it.

This makes so much sense it is scary. Why not have someone who is opposed to your plan, head up the committee to extend the plan.

It's like having Dow Chemical merge with Ducks Unlimited and Greenpeace to decide how they should go about saving the environment.

Want a reason why we need to protest in September?....There it is.

It's Growing....

2006-05-15T07:34:00.000-07:00

Well, this protest is starting to grow.

This weekend I had several interested parties who wanted to join up, and as a result the protest in Edmonton is coming along nicely, as well with the one in Calgary.

We should be able to get media coverage for it now

The date may change to a bit later in September but that has not been decided yet.

Anyone interested in joining up, email me at renfunk@gmail.com

Kudos to Min

2006-05-12T08:56:00.000-07:00

Kudos goes out to Min who has successfully organized a Dirty Sock Contest at the dealership where she works.

The concept is simply, put a sock on your exhaust for thirty seconds and see just how dirty it gets. If it is the dirtiest, then you win a free oil change.

She also has the newspaper interviewing her for this, I will put the link up for it when it appears.

The entire purpose of the event is to show people, that just because you can't see what is coming out of your exhaust, it doesn't mean it's clean.

The event is May 27th in Hanover, Ontario. If you can make it, go.

Protest Logo Issued

2006-05-06T09:36:00.000-07:00

Canada Climate Change Day

2006-05-04T09:31:00.000-07:00

As many of us know, climate change is becoming a serious problem, with every passing year the threat and evidence of it become clearer and clearer. In 2005 alone, we recorded the hottest year on record, more powerful and plentiful hurricanes since we began recording them and a record loss of glaciers and arctic/Antarctic ice.

While these problems and their consequences become clearer and clearer, our governments as usual have done little to combat or even acknowledge them.

Since coming to power, Stephen Harper has done the following, in regards to climate change

· Stated that he will find a way for us to get out of Kyoto, even though we are bound to it by International Law

· Canceling the one-tonne challenge

· He has cut funding to a wide variety of environmental groups contracted to urge people to practice a cleaner lifestyle to help the environment.

· Pulled funding on wind power

· Scrapped the 260 million the Liberals promised to give the UN to fight climate change.

· Put us into a climate pact with the six worst polluters in the world, where the conditions are all voluntary and nothing is required for cutting greenhouse gases

They have stated that they want a plan that reduces greenhouse gases over the course of many decades, not in seven years as the Kyoto Accord dictates. Unfortunately, we do not have that kind of time.

Studies have shown that polar ice will be gone as early as 2025 or as late as 2060, with the loss of the ice, we will lose one of our Canadian symbols; the polar bear. What is troublesome is that no one cares. Everyday as I walk home I see hundreds of cars going by with one occupant, spewing out harmful toxins that destroy our ozone (there was an 8% loss of it over Canada this year alone), pollute our air, and warm our Earth.

The Harper government has to be pressured to take a stand on climate change, to not give in to big business, who care more about financial gain, than the state of the world we will leave to our children and our grand children.

Do you want to have to explain to your grandchildren what a polar bear was? Do you want to explain to them why we let our world’s environment become a mess and why we let our paradise become lost?

I know I do not.

The line in the sand has to be drawn now, our government won’t be the ones to do it, so it is up to us as citizens to make the change.

This is what I propose, we protest, all together, collectively as one Canadian voice on August 26 2006. In every city, town, province and territory, we raise our voice so that the government can hear. We have rallies, marches, and make our voice heard so that the government will have no choice but to listen to us.

As ordinary citizens we forget that the true power lies not with the government, but with us. We dictate the direction of our country, we dictate what we want Canada to be, and how we want the rest of the world to view us.

So please, help me organize a Climate Change Day on August 26 2006. With rallies, events, marches, and protests we can really change things and hopefully save the environment from the Stephen Harper.

If you are interested in assisting me, both through ideas and volunteering please contact me at:

renfunk@gmail.com

I would like to get a nationwide event organized with media coverage.

We have the power to change the world; we just have not realized it yet.

Sincerely,

Craig Baird.

Edmonton, Alberta

renfunk@gmail.com