Paul Lysholdt — Feb 1 2008 10:03 PM

Plant 10 billion trees in our country

Dan Thompson — Feb 4 2008 02:58 PM

Wireless increase replicates warming hockey stick graph?

Jesse Jenkins — Feb 4 2008 07:05 PM

I'm honored! Never won a poetry contest before! I'm a poet and I didn't know it... ok that was terrible and not called for. I almost deserve to lose my honor just for that bad and overused pun.

But honestly, thanks for selecting my haiku. I honestly believe it's time to start looking at the climate crisis not as an overwhelming and depressing burden, but as our greatest opportunity, a brief, catalyzing moment to build a brighter future - a sustainable, just and prosperous future for all. Time to seize our opportunity before it passes us forever.

Cheers,

Jesse Jenkins

(If you liked my haiku, check the message and vision of the Cascade Climate Declaration at www.CascadeClimate.org...

Dan Thompson — Feb 4 2008 08:30 PM

And seizing that opportunity to impact climate change means including all factors including the hot water bottle we put under it from the many forms of human warming that the gas comforter retains. Not the least might be indicated if the hockey stick graph of the warming in closely tracked by one of the development and exploding increase of wireless communication whose energy frequencies activate, thus warm, just as those from the Sun with no built in regular cooling periods. Radio, data transmission, TV, remotes, satellites, internet, GPS, locaters, trackers, sensors, CBs, radar, pagers, don't forget cell phones, audio and visual along with hand helds galore and growing almost daily, etc. all of which create or utilize energy frequencies that keep the atmosphere and non-targets in a constant state of quivering, non-stop. Maybe not but researching such a graph could be informative. The denial, of course, even if the graph showed a strong similarity would dwarf that of the warming...as it would be far more than just inconvenient. Anyone have any comments? I may be totally wrong but...what if...?

Chris Jones — Feb 5 2008 03:47 PM

Sorry I missed this one.

Here's what motivates me...

"More CO2 - the climate changes - people die"

10,000 children currently suffer and die every day from preventable disease, hunger, and natural disasters. If climate change only doubles the incidence of these problems, every day that we delay implementing solutions adds to the impending tragedy in the making.

The opportunity is even if you only have one one millionth of the solution, you are literally saving lives. The challenge is if you forgo that opportunity, how will you justify this to yourself and to future generations?

Dan Thompson — Feb 5 2008 06:43 PM

No comments on the human hot water bottle we put under our gas comforter? Well, I said the participation of energy from wireless communication would be met with severe denial, even a refusal to discuss let alone research it. But, as with other things, nature cares not for human acceptance or denial. It just does what it does and if we set the table as certain way it will act accordingly. I wonder what Al Gore would say of this.

Kathy Saint — Feb 5 2008 09:08 PM

Actually my comment is on the idea by Conrad Squires — Jan 29 2008 01:11 PM which was:
Save the earth. It's our home. Stupid not to.

I think he does have the winner he just needed to edit. How about:
Save the earth. It's our home stupid!

(as long as the contraction counts as one word. :)

Dan Thompson — Feb 6 2008 10:48 AM

For a comprehensive approach to warming consider this: "Include all elephants in the warming room."

Dan Thompson — Feb 6 2008 10:55 AM

My posts have been based on the possibility that the box may need to be expanded, not think outside it, expand it. The poster gas comforter is certainly a factor but may not be the only one. We produce a lot of heat with our activities. Heat that is retained no less than that from the Sun. Ignoring it doesn't make it not a factor. Claiming it's too small to be a factor without scientific measurements absent a predetermined preferred result is a cop out. The constant atmosphere giggling from our wireless communication energy could be part of that hot water bottle. Considering such is about where the warming itself was a couple decades ago. Comments?

Dan Thompson — Feb 6 2008 07:34 PM

One of those small steps that make up a 1,000 mile trek towards combating global warming...quit requiring MCs (Members of Congress) fly to Washington to cast a vote. Current technology renders that an obsolete necessity.They should be required to vote on every measure from wherever they are, just not required to have butts in their seats. It's the vote, stupid, not the body being in view. An atom sized thing certainly but atoms make galaxies.

Beth DeLashmutt-Poore — Feb 8 2008 02:34 PM

Hi Dan - Am new to the NRDC website but couldn't help but be drawn to the seven words contest - fantastic entries! I do particularly love your grand prize choice. I like the 'start now' approach and plan to use it in my line of work.

Which brings me to my question for you (sorry, could not find a way to just email you). My passion is earth advocacy, but my job is consulting with a utility company in promoting their renewable (green) energy program. I am always on the look-out for marketing campaigns that will prompt people to action. Can I use the submittals for your contest? Some would be great to use as a bill insert or bangtail (attached to utility bill envelope). Let me know the legality and if we need to give credit to Jesse or whomever. Thanks a bunch!

Your partner for a healthy planet,
Beth

p.s. Please do not publish my email address.

Dan Thompson, Union, Or USA — Feb 8 2008 05:05 PM

Beth. Your view of my suggestion that the warming and wireless communication graphs might look like the same hockey stick, or nearly so? Saving the Earth might involve much more than just reducing the gas comforter. The question might be whether we are willing to confront much more than just inconvenience. I would be interested in the response by Dan as well as any others commenting. A 6 word sentence might be: "Grow. Walk. Bike. For everything's health."

Dan Thompson, Union, Or USA — Feb 9 2008 02:29 PM

No response from anyone, including the NRDC?

Cass Martinez — Feb 10 2008 12:20 AM

Dan--I feel your pain.

I don't understand the electromagnetic spectrum or what the crowded EMS space we live in will do to us. I remember how tizzied the American embassy in Moscow got when they believed microwaves were being cast through their building, and I read somewhere that Eugene, OR has more FM in their valley than is prudent.

The acceptable conceptual Invisible World for Americans is God in his heaven, Satan and his hell. The real invisible world can't get no respect.

Can we get a scientist to comment here? Or a high school science student?

Dan Thompson, Union, Or USA — Feb 11 2008 12:51 AM

Cass. Thanks. As I said, there will be all manner of reasons to dismiss the possibility, wrong part of the spectrum and such. But I'll wager a graph of radio and everything that has followed would prove interesting. And I have to also wonder, insulation works both ways. If it keeps some energy in does it also keep some out...which would mean even more of the retained warmth is from this side of the atmosphere not the other. But I'm not trying to protect status, tenure or book sales...so I'm free to wonder.