The Solution is Simple « It’s Getting Hot In Here

UPDATE: Alain climbs the New York Times building. Check it out on the NYT City Room blog and Gothamist.

This morning, Alain Robert, a French rock climber, began climbing one of the tallest buildings in Manhattan, The New York Times Building, demanding action on climate change at the G8 in a few weeks. We wish Alain good luck on his adventure. Here are a few words from Alain himself:

I am climbing with my bare hands, as a PEACEFUL way to create support for far greater and urgent action from world leaders on global warming. Greenhouse gas emissions are still climbing. So am I!!!

But The Solution Is Simple:

1 - Stop Cutting Down Trees. Plant More Trees.
2 - Make Everything Energy Efficient.
3 - Only Make Clean Energy.

Next month world leaders meet at the G8 in Japan. By December 2009, world leaders must sign a global agreement to reduce carbon emissions in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million - the only safe level according to the latest science.

WE can help make sure this happens.

I am encouraging everyone to please JOIN the adventure and together, millions of us will help make change happen. Rise to the challenge at www.thesolutionissimple.org
Thank you.

Alain Robert - Spiderman

About Phil

Phil has been a campus clean energy activist and helped organize Step It Up 2007, the largest national open source grassroots campaign to stop global warming. He is currently working on building an international movement, focusing specifically on mobilizing and educating people in Africa and the Middle East. His new project, 350.org, will stitch together a creative, powerful and unstoppable global movement pushing for bold and comprehensive action on climate change on the international level.

4 Responses to “The Solution is Simple”

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1 Sparki Jun 5th, 2008 at 3:19 pm

UPDATE NYPD arrested Alain Robert at the 52nd story a little while ago
2 MNPundit Jun 6th, 2008 at 6:26 pm

You do realize that even making things like Wind Turbines takes lots of petroleum, right?
3 jlw Jun 6th, 2008 at 9:45 pm

You do realize that even making things like Wind Turbines takes lots of petroleum, right?

Sure. But it doesn’t take more energy to make a wind turbine than it does a coal boiler or a gas turbine, all things considered. And once you’ve finished making the wind turbine, it doesn’t need any more fuel, while the coal boiler will keep burning carbon-rich fuel its entire useful life.

Building a wind turbine or a solar thermal plant is an investment in making things better. Building more coal-fired power plants is an investment in making things worse.
4 R Margolis Jun 7th, 2008 at 8:06 pm

If you look at independent studies such as the ExternE report, wind is one of the lowest carbon intensity power sources. Wind is like other sources of power in that it cannot do the job alone. Wind needs to be coupled with baseload sources to balance out any intermittency. Even Denmark balances its high wind power percentage by being tied to the Nordic power pool. No energy source is perfect.

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