Last year was one of the worst years on record for climate related natural disasters according to (ENS) Environmental News Service. Costs associated with damage were 200 billion dollars and thousands of lives as well.
We’re into a new year with a new president. The ENS article stated: “At the annual UN climate conference set for Copenhagen in December 2009, governments are expected to agree on a treaty to limit climate warming greenhouse gas emissions to follow the Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2012.”
Hopefully, the U.S. will see its way to joining the rest of the world in a combined effort toward climate neutrality, which is “living in a way which produces no net greenhouse gas emissions, achievable by reducing emissions, and using carbon offsets to neutralize the remaining emissions.”
We CAN do this.
Read the whole article: http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/dec2008/2008-12-31-03.asp