This is just a thought; don’t you think it would be easier to sell global warming to the delegates partaking in the Copenhagen Climate Summit IF was it was held in the middle of summer and in a hotter locale?
I am just an old Marketing hack but it’s a hard sell to convince the world of global warming when most of North America is currently under 10 feet of snow, and in the midst of a ‘Blizzard from Hell.’
Hold these things in the middle of summer in oh say – VEGAS! There would not be a skeptic in the joint!
Now I know that blizzards or heat waves are NOT indications one way or the other.
Starving, drowning polar bears in the diminishing Arctic Ice cap is an indication.
Huge hunks of Antarctica freely sailing on a collision course with Australia is an indication.
The diminishing Arctic Marine food web & disappearing Arctic algae which feed organisms, which feed fish, which feed mammals, is an indication of global warming.
The destruction of Coral beds because of overgrowth of fungal spices because of warming ocean waters is an indication of global warming.
I am just saying.
Although arguments continue as to how much of recent climate change is natural and how much is man-made, only a few diehard skeptics doubt that the warming of the last few decades is real. Now, however, those skeptics can barely contain their glee at the release of a cache of stolen emails that they believe prove global warming is nothing but a colossal hoax.
“The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet. … This scandal could well be ‘the greatest in modern science’.”
Ah….what?
Now Another UNIK Xmas Prezzie!!
Help Save Penguins from a Warming World
With their tuxedo-like plumage and charming good looks, penguins have become big stars on the Big Screen. But behind the glitz and glamour is a tragic story: Penguin populations have decreased by nearly 80 percent in some areas, and most scientists agree that rising temperatures due to global warming are the primary culprit.
Learn more about Penguins >
The earth’s temperatures are rising at an alarming rate. In Antarctica, home to the famous Emperor Penguin, the annual sea ice melting season has extended by as much as 3 weeks in recent decades. Less ice means fewer habitats and the loss of critical food, such as shrimp-like krill, which depend on polar ice to reproduce.
Tragically, penguin populations have decreased by nearly 80 percent in some areas, and the majority of scientists agree that rising temperatures due to climate change are the primary culprit.
How Your Adoption Helps Save Penguins
- Supports our work to pass vital legislation like the Global Warming Wildlife Survival Act to help penguins survive and adapt to climate change.
- Enables us to educate the public about global warming and threats to penguins through public service announcements.
- Provides vital resources to support our work with industry and lawmakers towards a cleaner, safer, more efficient energy future.
Penguin Fun Fact
The largest of the penguins is the famous Emperor Penguin, which can weigh up to 60 lbs and stand as tall as 3 feet. During breeding season, male Emperors are dedicated incubators of their eggs until hatching, and can go as long as 15 weeks without eating.
How Your Adoption Helps to Protect Species and Habitats
Named “America’s Best Wildlife Charity” by Reader’s Digest, Defenders of Wildlife has been a leading innovator in developing the most effective ways to conserve imperiled wildlife and wild lands for over 60 years. Your adoption donation will immediately be put to use where it is most needed to achieve these goals.
Adoption kits and other gifts can be shipped to U.S. addresses only.
FREE first-class shipping in time for Christmas available through 12/16. Please allow 4-7 days delivery. Express Shipping (additional $6 donation) in time for Christmas available through 12/20. Please allow 3-5 days delivery. The US Postal Service does not guarantee delivery times. See all shipping options.
Your gift is tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law.
Adopt By Phone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at (800) 385-9712.
Each wildlife adoption and gift is symbolic and your donation will be used where needed to help protect our imperiled wildlife and wild lands.
Yes, it should totally be in Vegas — everyone could arrive in private jets to the conference in the conservation capitol of the world!
Seriously, this old marketing hack agrees somewhere hot would be a better. Because for some reason, the idea of planetary destruction is a harder sell than fast food and furniture. How about holding it somewhere like Southern California’s Joshua Tree National Park, where its namesake tree has withstood the desert heat forever… until recent years. They’re dying off. Global warming is suspected.