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For many people, the thought of doing something to cut emissions and prevent global warming is a drastic one, as many people think they would have to give up their sport utility vehicles for a hybrid or equip their homes with solar panels and go off of the electrical grid. One of the more overlooked ideas that has slowly grown steam after being successful on the corporate level is the idea of purchasing a carbon credit.

Companies in countries around the world buy carbon credits to allow them to emit certain pollutants into the air at certain levels. Each credit is a certain cost, of which the money goes into the development of cleaner technologies that can reduce the level of pollution overall over time. Some environmental groups have taken this idea and adapted it to the individual level.

Many groups allow you to calculate through their websites the amount of carbon pollution that you emit as an individual through your daily activity and generate the equivalent cost of a “carbon credit.” This cost equates to the amount of money that would need to be spent to remove that amount of pollution from the environment. The money, as with corporate carbon credit costs, goes towards the creation and development of pollution reducing technology and alternative energy for society as a whole.

It’s easy to blame much of what is going on in our environment on global warming.  But sometimes that isn’t the actual answer.  For example, in the United States this year there has been an extremely high number of tornadoes.  A record number in fact.

But is this global warming?  An alternate theory suggests that it’s only the La Nina effect causing violent weather.  For those pushing the global warming issues, this might almost be disappointing.  However for others, it’s comforting that the cause is attributable to the oceanic currents and how they flow.  This is something that will self correct.

Websites

• A Modest Proposal to Save the Planet

• Contraction and Convergence—Decreasing global emissions of carbon dioxide with justice and fairness

• Abrupt Climate Change

• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

• Apocalypse Now: How Mankind is Sleepwalking to the End of the Earth

• Are We on the Brink of a New “Little Ice Age”?

• Ocean Monitoring Systems

• Should We Be Worried

• Climate

• From Columbia University’s Earth Institute

• Climate Ark

• Climate Change Portal

• EPA Global Warming Site

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

• Fight Global Warming

• From Environmental Defense

• Global Warming

• From the Sierra Club

• Global Warming: Early Warning Signs

• Interactive map showing the local consequences of global warming

• How Global Warming May Cause the Next Ice Age

• By Thom Hartmann

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• Established by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme

• Pentagon Abrupt Climate Change Study

• Global Business Network comments with link to PDF file

• Stop Climate Change

• From Greenpeace

Articles

• Global warming: Between a rock and no place at all

• A view from Bermuda

• Internet Forums and News Reports
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• “Abrupt Climate Change” topics in Google Group on global warming