About Global Warming

Achieving energy independence will be challenging but fundamental in solving the global warming crisis.

People can choose to be part of the solution. Whether it's owning a clean car or investing in clean, renewable energy, our lifestyle choices are key to achieving the 2% Solution.

The U.N. International Panel on Climate Change believes that what we do now to lower emissions will determine whether average global temperatures will rise either a manageable one degree or a catastrophic five degrees Celsius. If we are to avert disaster, the international community must act now.

From gigantic multinational corporations to small, family-owned streetcorner stores, businesses of all types are turning to conservation to cut costs.

As the effects of global warming accelerate over the next few decades, local, national, and international leaders will need to enact plans that both lower harmful greenhouse gas emissions and enable both vulnerable communities and ecosystems to adapt to a changing climate.

A century ago, when early conservationists such as John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt worked to set aside our most majestic wildlands as national parks, they believed that the boundaries they set for those lands would protect them for all future generations. Climate change has turned that assumption on its head.

Wildlife will have to endure a radical shift in seasonal patterns and the natural landscape. Human populations also will be forced to migrate and adjust to changing conditions and scarce resources.

For thousands of years, people have manipulated water to their benefit through aqueducts, reservoirs, and irrigation. But global warming seriously threatens this resource, both economically and in loss of life.