The ecological science continues to accumulate that abrupt, deadly and irreversible climate collapse [search] is well advanced and accelerating. One new study finds climate is changing more quickly and deeply then predicted [ark] in recent IPCC reports [search]. Dramatic Arctic melting [search] (including Greenland) and feedbacks far beyond those expected is noted. Another study concludes that today’s greenhouse gas emissions will continue to heat up the planet for hundreds of thousands of years [ark], in human terms essentially forever. This comes as world governments head to Poland for yet another climate conference, to whine about poor economic growth and why they can’t possibly cut their own carbon emissions, demanding instead that others address this terrible emergency. When the ecological bubble bursts we all die.

Greenhouse gases hit a record level last year [ark], well beyond what threatens the habitability of the Earth for humans and all creatures. And indications are that most global citizens are prepared to sacrifice [ark | moreark] and pay some price to avert the worst effects of abrupt climate changes [search]. “43% of the 12,000 respondents of the survey chose climate change ahead of the global economy when asked about their current concerns.” This constitutes a global mandate for climate action.

Where are our leaders? The U.S. is not listening to the people [ark], Italy desperately clings to the past [ark], Australia blames others [ark] and China and India shirk their responsibilities [ark]. Globally tens of trillions of dollars are being spent to prop up an economic system based upon the environmental impossibility of maintaining exponential economic growth forever [search], the same growth that has caused the climate and other environmental problems. How ridiculous for governments to tax their citizens to pay failed banks to lend to already over-extended consumers.

It is all coming down baby. The only question is whether we will have the will, strength and remaining ecosystems to reconstitute truly civilized, equitable and just sustainable societies. Or will we enter an era of barbarism in vain attempts to first continue our over consumption (based upon continued ecosystem destruction) and then just to survive. The human family’s future and prospects for shared survival is being determined now.

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Given our effectiveness, perhaps it is not surprising that Ecological Internet’s web servers were severely hacked last week. EI is committed to achieving just and equitable global environmental sustainability, and the required “ecologically sufficient” policy agenda. Ending ancient forest logging and coal use, reducing human population and consumption, and embracing widespread ecological preservation and restoration threaten both Earth destroyers and their NGO apologists. The attack, which took us partially off-line for a couple days, is indicative of our success. If the ruling elite are threatened by our bright green message, clearly we are doing something right.

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SHARED SURVIVAL 2008: EI’s Vital End-of-Year Fund-Raiser

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As is frequently the case, Ecological Internet’s (EI) end-of-year fund-raiser has launched quite slowly, only 2% to the goal. Let’s be clear — as a user supported organization — if this goal is not substantively achieved, Ecological Internet and our brand of ecologically rigorous Earth protection will end. Please gift the Earth now in support of rigorous environmental policy advocacy, what ecological science tells us is necessary to save being. You can help usher in an era of ecological sustainability and restoration at: http://www.climateark.org/shared/donate/ .

The world is at risk of losing 20 years of accomplishment in online ecological advocacy systems. I am racking my brain on how to keep what is broadly perceived as exceptionally successful ecological advocacy efforts funded. We have begun taking Google advertising on the sites and have a number of promising grant proposals out. Yet, these effort’s core computer and staffing expenses cannot be met without a successful end-of-year fund-raiser. We need current support from past donors more than ever, and every individual touched by these efforts to contribute what they can. Your gifts are the bedrock of Ecological Internet.

A coal plant permit in Utah was rejected [ark] yesterday by the E.P.A on the basis of lack of control of carbon dioxide [search]. The ruling puts in question permits for as many as 100 new plants [search], and should aid lawsuits against them as well.

This comes as the International Energy Agency confirms that coal will continue being the leading source of energy globally until at least 2030 [ark]. A week earlier in their annual report that had warned that the world’s energy use was “patently unsustainable” [ark] and warned of 6°C rise in average global temperatures [ark]. As long as coal is burned to produce electricity, dumping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, there is zero chance of maintaining historically reliable climatic patterns or a habitable Earth.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ELEANOR HALL: Now to that alarming research on marine life in the southern ocean which shows that the tipping point where animals will struggle to survive will come sooner than scientists previously thought. Researchers at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales are warning that acidity in the Southern Ocean will reach destructive levels where it will dissolve the shells of marine organisms by 2030. As Jane Cowan reports that is at least twenty …

Seoul Times: During the last one decade, Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has been witness to many climatic changes. Eastern Uttar Pradesh has faced severe floods, while Bundelkhand region has faced one of the worst famines of the last decade. Thus, the impact of climate change has adversely affected agricultural production resulting in huge loss of paddy and corn crops in eastern districts and regional crops in Bundelkhand. Climate-related disasters have brought widespread misery and huge economic losses …

New York Times: The president-elect of the Maldives, a nation of 1,200 low islands in the Indian Ocean, is planning to establish an investment fund with some of its earnings from tourism so it can buy a haven for its citizens should global warming raise sea levels at a dangerous pace, according to several news reports. Mohamed Nasheed, a former political prisoner who will be sworn in Tuesday as the country`s first democratically elected president, named Sri Lanka and India as possible spots for a …

Wall Street Journal: Biofuels are under siege from critics who say they crowd out food production. Now these fuels made from grass and grain, long touted as green, are being criticized as bad for the planet. At issue is whether oil alternatives — such as ethanol distilled from corn and fuels made from inedible stuff like switch grass — actually make global warming worse through their indirect impact on land use around the world. The EPA will weigh distant deforestation in gauging biofuels’ net …

RTTNews: Monday, Greenpeace activists stopped exports of tens of thousands of tons of palm oil shipments from Indonesia to Europe in protest against the ongoing destruction of Indonesia’s rainforests, an activist said. The activists allegedly hung on to the chains of the anchors of three ships that were due to depart Monday from Indonesia’s main export point, the port of Dumai in Riau province, to Europe. Two ships were reportedly loaded with over 27,000 tons and 2,600 tons of palm oil. The …