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Donate Your Facebook Status to Tackle Climate Change

by Amy Judd | November 19, 2008 at 02:01 pm

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Anytime between now and December 17th, if you donate your Facebook status to the issue of Climate Change, it will help raise awareness about the issue and you won't have to spend any money.

Dealing with an issue of this size is only really possible through awareness. The only way to do this is if we all work together. So change your status!

The American Museum of Natural History is asking people who care about the health of the planet to change their Facebook status messages between November 17th and December 15th to:

[Your name] is donating his/her status to tackle Climate Change: http://amnhblogs.org/donate-status

Doing this will help raise awareness about our Climate Change exhibition, which explains not just the risks associated with global warming but also the many small- and large-scale options we have when it comes to reducing carbon emissions.

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danesller0127

at 15:26 on November 19th, 2008

This year's Ozone hole is 5th biggest

NEW YORK – This year's ozone hole over Antarctica was the fifth biggest on record, reaching a maximum area of 10.5 million square miles in September, NASA says. That's considered "moderately large," NASA atmospheric scientist Paul Newman said in a statement.

NASA has tracked the size of the hole for 30 years. Last year, it was 9.7 million square miles, about the size of North America.

The hole is an area of depletion in the stratospheric ozone layer, which blocks harmful ultraviolet rays from space. Created by human-produced gases, the ozone hole generally forms in August and grows to its maximum size in September or October before breaking up.

source: http://zonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov

Fairbanks

at 15:31 on November 19th, 2008

NASA has tracked the size of the hole for 30 years

. . . and before that? It might have been even bigger. It was discovered about 30 years ago. As a result of our activism we now have barely functional AC in our cars and the hole is as big as it was.

danesller0127

at 16:37 on November 19th, 2008

We must teach our children about the environmental knowledge... Human activities have added to the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the changes in the atmosphere have likely influenced the precipitation, storms, and sea level. The burning of 'fossil fuels' and 'biomass' has also resulted in emisions of 'aerosols' that absorb and emit heat, and reflect light. However, these features of climate are so determining what fraction of climate changes are due to natural variability, versus human activities are very challenging.