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Global Warming Pollution
Global climate change is one of the biggest challenges we now face. MEIC has been focusing on education as the key to creating an awareness of how devastating climate change can be to Montana and the entire world.
Increasing dependence on fossil fuels such as coal is a disturbing and destructive trend. MEIC is fighting this by promoting energy conservation as well as a market for renewable energy alternatives such as wind and solar power and acting as a watchdog over new coal plant permits and other fossil fuel-based power plants.
MEIC also supports the adoption, by the State of Montana, of greenhouse gas (GHG) vehicle emission standards. Such standards have been adopted or are in the process of being adopted by 17 states.
MEIC’s energy program director, Patrick Judge, has been appointed to the Montana Climate Change Advisory Council, whose mission is to advise the governor on ways to reduce Montana’s global warming pollution.
"REQUIRED READING"
NATURE’S TRUST: A Legal, Political, Economic, and Moral Frame for Global Warming
A lecture by University of Oregon Law Professor Mary Christina Wood, presented at the 2007 Southwest Renewable Energy Conference in Boulder, Colorado on August 2, 2007.
- pdf reprint from MEIC's Down to Earth (with images, 1 MB)
- Word document (64 K)
- pdf of text-only document (196 K)
- LISTEN to an interview with Mary Wood — KUFM, Feb. 2008
For more information
- This "YouTube" video — "How it all Ends" — is a good explanation of the risk of global warming inaction.
- Did you ever wonder what reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 1 million metric tons means in everyday terms? EPA's equivalency calculator can help you understand just that.
Take Action
FIX or DITCH the Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Bill For its massive industry handouts, it asks too little in return (Friends of the Earth)
In the News
- "Remember This: 350 Parts Per Million,"
by Bill McKibben, washingtonpost.com, December 28, 2007. NASA
scientist James Hansen offers a simple, straightforward and
mind-blowing bottom line for the planet: 350, as in parts per million
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
- Power Plant Rejected Over Carbon Dioxide For First Time (by Steven Mufson, Washington Post, October 19, 2007)
- A key threshold crossed: An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report to be released next month will show that the limit on greenhouse-gases scientists hoped to avert has already been surpassed (by Gregory M. Lamb, Christian Science Monitor, 10/11/2007)
- The Climate Change Peril That Insurers See (by Montana State Insurance Commissioner John Morrison and Alex Sink, Washington Post, 9/27/07; Page A25)
- Economic View: One Answer to Global Warming: A New Tax (from the New York Times, by N. Gregory Mankiw, September 16, 2007)
- Cheap coal, dirty air: The latest in a series of decisions gutting coal mining regulations will devastate mountain ecosystems (From the Los Angeles Times, August 31, 2007) TAKE ACTION ON THIS ISSUE
- (June 28, 2007) Consumers Can Calculate How Individual Energy Use Contributes to Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Air Pollution on EPA Web Site. With just a few clicks of the mouse and a ZIP code, consumers can see how their individual energy use is affecting the Earth. EPA's Power Profiler calculates how much air pollution results from individual electricity use, the fuels used to produce that electricity and how to reduce the impact.
- Scientists' Report Documents ExxonMobil’s Tobacco-like Disinformation Campaign on Global Warming Science — Oil Company Spent Nearly $16 Million to Fund Skeptic Groups, Create Confusion (report by Union of Concerned Scientists, January 3, 2007)