Australia-based 300.org warmly supports the 24 October 2009 Global Day of Action organized by 350.org but recommends the number from the latest climate science: “300” (see “Re 300.org & 350”.org: http://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/re-300-org-350-org ) . The following letter (May 2009) has been variously sent to activists, media and governments world-wide.
300.org - save warming-threatened Island Nations, Mega-delta Nations and Planet by reducing atmosphere CO2 to 300 ppm
Positive feedback effects from man-made global warming are accelerating climatic disruption, increasing the threat to humanity and decreasing the time for effective action to save the planet.
Major examples include the albedo flip involving replacement of light-reflecting sea ice with dark, light-absorbing ocean in the Arctic and Antarctic; the ticking methane bomb involving CO2-driven global warming causing tundra melting and release of methane that is 21 times worse than CO2 as a greenhouse gas on a 100 year scale; increased storm intensity causing loss of the Southern Ocean as a major CO2 sink; and present climatic disruption causing destruction of major forest carbon sinks due to greatly increased forest fire extent and insect herbivore population explosion.
Just as the latest scientific discoveries have supplanted IPCC predictions of 2007 (e.g. the Arctic summer sea ice is now predicted to completely go by 2013 rather than in 2100) so climate activism is also being rendered out of date. Thus US-based 350.org advocates reduction of atmospheric CO2 from the present 387 ppm to 350 ppm (based on a 2007 upper estimate of what is required from NASA’s Dr James Hansen).
However now Australia-based 300.org urges a goal of 300 ppm atmospheric CO2 for a safe planet, informed by the latest from Dr Hansen and many other top climate scientists – notably, Australia’s Professor Barry Brook who says “The number is 300” and that “350. It’s the wrong number” (see: http://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/Home ). Yet science-ignoring First World governments are all aiming to increase atmospheric CO2. Please transmit this acutely serious message to everyone you can.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Gideon Polya
Macleod, Melbourne, Victoria 3085, Australia
Further documentation is outlined below for your convenience.
1. For the latest opinions of top climate scientists see “300.org – return atmosphere CO2 to 300 ppm”, YVCAG: http://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-org---return-atmosphere-co2-to-300-ppm .
2. “Letter to Island Nations - Accountability, Badge and Credo (ABC) protocol & ICC prosecutions may yet save Island States, Planet“, YVCAG: http://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/letter-to-island-nations---accountability-badge-and-credo-abc-protocol-icc-prosecutions-may-yet-save-island-states-planet .
3. “300.org Urges Reduction Of Atmospheric CO2 to 300 ppm “, Countercurrents: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya280509.htm .
4. “How to save the Planet. Accountability, Badge & Credo (ABC) Protocol”, MWC News: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/30564/42/ (impecunious Countercurrents and MWC News are outspoken in trying to save warming-threatened Island Nations, Mega-delta Nations and the Planet from man-made global warming).