http://penguinsunited.com penguins talk about global warming & climate crisis Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:37:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Things are heating up - a penguin joke. James Hansen testified before Congress 20 years after his famous warning about Global Warming. Famous, at least, for penguins and polar bears. If I told you only two Congresspeople showed up to hear one of the world's greatest experts talk about ... http://penguinsunited.com/2008/06/30/climate-criminals/ Sorry. Sorry. A heartfelt penguin apology for not writing sooner. We have been busy here in the land of ice and snow. Many young people write us asking what they can do to save the earth. Of course, none of us have gone to school, let alone college. We ... http://penguinsunited.com/2008/06/10/save-the-earth-a-fair-tax/ Our home is cracking apart around us. Some of the Antarctic ice shelf just broke off. How big? For those of you Americans who have ventured to the city that calls itself the Greatest City in the world, it is 9x the size of Manhattan. And sticking ... http://penguinsunited.com/2008/04/02/penguins-we-are-new-orleans/ Penguin 11 here. It's been awhile. Quite frankly several of us penguins were given DVD collections of "Lost" and we surrendered. We know something about living on an island or so we thought - anyway it has been fascinating to see what you humans do in a ... http://penguinsunited.com/2008/02/25/king-penguins-long-live-the-kings/ If you are reading this, it's probably because you have been thinking about penguins, or about global warming and climate change, maybe wondering how we are doing, or maybe about your future. These are scary and complicated times for all of us. Adélie 422 walking - Photo: Geroge F. Mobley The ... http://penguinsunited.com/2008/01/18/penguins-on-thin-ice/ http://penguinsunited.com/2007/12/31/penguin-new-year-new-hope/ Well there is the small victory to celebrate at Bali - the U.S. was frightened enough by the threatened boycott of its January conference to refrain from preventing an agreement. But from the point of view of the rest of the world - the non-humans of this world - it was ... http://penguinsunited.com/2007/12/18/bali-schmali/ You know you're in big trouble when they talk about you in Forbes and the UK Guardian and the Telegraph and National Geographic News all in the same day. Big big trouble. Why? The World Wildlife Fund issued its report, "Antarctic Penguins and Climate Change." This is what the ... http://penguinsunited.com/2007/12/11/penguins-in-peril/ Right now human leaders are meeting in Bali to talk about global warming and the climate crisis. No penguins, spotty owls, polar bears. Lots of humans talking and arguing about how much or how little to do or not do and what it will cost. Of course, some of ... http://penguinsunited.com/2007/12/04/adopt-a-human-2/ Several human-based environmental organizations have ways of raising money based on adopting animals. One organization, Defenders of Wildlife, has a program called "Adopt a Penguin." This is what they write: l A variety of species of penguins have been declining due to the effects of global warming. Starvation, habitat loss, ... http://penguinsunited.com/2007/11/26/adopt-a-human/