Citizens Climate lobby Roscommon/Crawford Chapter

      Roscommon/Crawford Chapter Another Way to Fix the Climate Problem We all know about the carbon cycle and how plants take in carbon dioxide and give off life-giving oxygen used by people and animals. Plants are essential for our world to exist as climate scientists have proven over the last 50 years. Seen in this light, the problem of climate change is that we have too many people on earth demanding energy (from burning fossil fuels) and too few plants taking in enough carbon dioxide. As result, our atmosphere has been gradually filling up with greenhouse gases. In trying to find solutions to the climate problem, folks have been talking about sequestration of carbon (a fancy term meaning taking in carbon dioxide) by whatever means possible, up to and including large machines powered by electricity to suck in air and capture the carbon/greenhouse gases. Such a large and complicated answer for a simple problem – why not let plants do the job? C...

The Future We Choose Christiana Figueres This title is taken from a new book written by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac. Figueres is a luminary in the world of climate change having been the principal leader of the United Nations Conference that has become known everywhere as 2015 Paris Accords. (Tom Rivett-Carnac assisted at Paris and collaborated in writing their new book.) That the 2015 conference was even held is something of a miracle since the previous United Nations effort in 2009 was a total wash-out with the conferees unable to achieve any sort of consensus about remedies for climate change. Even Figueres herself was not optimistic at the end of the 2009 effort. When reporters asked if she believed there was a chance for a world-wide agreement she answered, “Not in my lifetime.” Despite the 2009 failure, the United Nations leadership wouldn’t give up. In desperation, they asked the Costa Rican activist Figueres to try again, giving her cart...