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Climate Impact Day

From 350.org, Bill McKibben:

Climate Impact Day 5/5 2012 is no normal day — it’s the day that people around the world are coming together to Connect the Dots about climate change. I’ve just heard that the very first action, in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean where the sun rises first, was a great success: people there dove down for an underwater rally on their threatened coral reef. So even if it’s raining where you are, know that some people have already gotten entirely wet to sound the alarm!

Here's the place to find the nearest action — and when you’re done go back to the computer to watch the images scroll in from around the planet (and make sure to upload your own photos).

This is like a giant seminar on the topic: What does global warming look like in its early stages? And if we can put a human face on climate change it will help immeasurably in all our campaigning in the years ahead. You’re that human face.

Though I could not make a good estimate of the numbers of people engaged in this action, it is another in the growing series of earth-oriented efforts to bring large numbers of us to envision a better world. The GCP event was set for the full 24 hour UTC day. The result is Chisquare 86884.624 on 86400 df, for p = 0.122 and Z = 1.165.

Climate Impact Day

It is important to keep in mind that we have only a tiny statistical effect, so that it is always hard to distinguish signal from noise. This means that every "success" might be largely driven by chance, and every "null" might include a real signal overwhelmed by noise. In the long run, a real effect can be identified only by patiently accumulating replications of similar analyses.


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