Explore Our Planet

This will become biggest party ever on our planet. At 07.07.07 for 24 hours on all 7 continents hundreds of top performers address Climate Change. MSN, NBC, BBC Network, hundreds of radio stations broadcast the event via television, radio, internet and wireless to reach 2 billion people across the globe.

The line-up so far reads: Pharrell, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Snoop Dogg, Lenny Kravitz, Bon Jovi, Paolo Nutini, Sheryl Crow, AFI, Melissa Etheridge, John Mayer, Damien Rice, Corinne Bailey Rae, Duran Duran, Snow Patrol, John Legend, Black Eyed Peas, Akon, Enrique Iglesias, Fall Out Boy, Mana, Keane, Kelly Clarkson, Korn, Faith Hill w/ Tim McGraw, Bloc Party

The campaign’s identity is based on SOS, the international Morse code distress signal: three dots, followed by three dashes, followed by three dots. SOS is the most urgent, universal message we have, and SOS will use that signal as a continuous distress call to prompt individuals, corporations and governments around the world to respond to our climate crisis with action.

Press Release, Video of press meeting and more at LiveEarth.org

The Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel (SETE) - operator of french national symbol Eiffel Tower - will switch off light for five minutes to support climate action ‘5 minutes de répit pour la plan

Quoted from press release, Jan 28 2007:

New survey shows students think climate should be Government’s biggest priority

A hard-hitting climate change advertising campaign showing condoms covering a coal station chimney, a car exhaust and aeroplane engine will be launched in universities across the country this month as part of Friends of the Earth’s The Big Ask campaign.

The launch of the ad campaign coincides with the publication of a new survey which shows that the majority of students think that climate change should be the Government’s biggest priority, with 95 per cent agreeing it is an important issue - ahead of issues such as the war in Iraq, terrorism and student loans. …

The advertising campaign will be delivered to 30 universities across England. Universities taking part in the scheme are:

Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Coventry, Derby, Greenwich, Hertfordshire, Hull, Leeds Metropolitan, Leeds University, Liverpool, London Uni of the Arts, Loughborough, Manchester, Middlesex, Newcastle, Newcastle, Northumbria, Nottingham, Oxford Brookes University, Plymouth, Sheffield University, Southampton, Southbank, Surrey, Thames Valley, Uni of Central England - Birmingham, Uni of West England - Bristol, University College London (UCL), Westminster

Picture credit: Friends of Earth

Though presenting warmest year on record for US most surprising sentence in the 2006 report from National Climatic Data Center is this one:

A contributing factor to the unusually warm temperatures throughout 2006 also is the long-term warming trend,
which has been linked to increases in greenhouse gases.

It looks like climate is changing for US in both senses.

Via: climateboy.blogspot.com
Picture credit: NCDC - Significant Climate Anomalies and Events in 2006