Here’s a call to action for my fellow Blue Bloggers and readers. On Thursday, October 15th, thousands of blogs will unite to write about one topic: climate change. It is an initiative started by Change.org and is called the Blog Day of Action (BAD). In the past they have covered topics like poverty and the environment. This year’s BAD event is billed as a lead up to COP15, the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December.
The Ocean and the Climate are Tide to Each Other
One thing is clear: the public does not perceive the connection between change in our climate and threats to our oceans. The Ocean Project recently completed a comprehensive study on public attitudes concerning the oceans and climate change, surveying 22,000 adults. This is one of the largest national survey on any environmental issue ever done in the United States. They found that as a topic of concern, the oceans ranked low compared to other environmental issues. The one subject that was at the top of the respondents’ minds was climate change. However, they decoupled the impacts of climate change from threats to the oceans and did not associate the two. (Ocean acidification? They’ve never heard of it.)
I’ll be writing more about the results of The Ocean Project’s survey in my BAD entry. I encourage as many other nature bloggers to participate as well, focusing on how climate change affects your topic of interest, whether it be birds, bugs, reefs or rocks.
Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be the largest-ever social change event on the web. One day. One issue. Thousands of voices.
- Blog Action Day: Climate Change
- BAD on Twitter
- The Ocean Project survey: America, the Ocean, and Climate Change
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I’m signed up and dedicating all posts this week to climate change issues and technology. The first is “Blog Action Day For A Less Toasty Tomorrow” at http://t1rex.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-action-day-for-less-toasty.html