The Tide Is Rising

7.12.2007
A ban­ner read­ing: ‘THE TIDE IS RISING’ with a blue wave across it now wel­comes all those enter­ing the city of Man­ches­ter on the Princess park­way. This marks the begin­ning of a num­ber of Cli­mate cam­paigns this week­end.

7.12.2007
A ban­ner read­ing: ‘THE TIDE IS RISING’ with a blue wave across it now wel­comes all those enter­ing the city of Man­ches­ter on the Princess park­way. This marks the begin­ning of a num­ber of Cli­mate cam­paigns this week­end.

In the ear­ly hours of this morn­ing (Fri­day 7th Dec 2007) activists dropped a ban­ner from the pedes­tri­an bridge near Hulme. It was still there at eleven twen­ty and, as far as we know, remains hang­ing at this moment.

Sea lev­els may well rise by 6 metres if the worst reports come true. The 8th Decem­ber is the inter­na­tion­al day for Cli­mate Change. Whether you’re in Lon­don, Man­ches­ter or any where, you can join the tide for change. Use rib­bons, chalk, or any­thing non tox­ic to mark a sym­bol­ic tide line, 1 metre above the ground on trees, fences or any oth­er places this week­end. Let’s make fac­ing this urgent prob­lem unavoid­able.

Fred Pearce in his most recent book ‘The last gen­er­a­tion’ has sight­ed a num­ber of alarm­ing reports from sci­en­tists in both the Artic and Antarc­tic that state ice is melt­ing at an expe­ri­en­tial rate.
If these reports are right we have passed an irre­versible tip­ping point mak­ing sea lev­el ris­es immi­nent (in some reports as much as 6 Metres).

Action needs to be tak­en from the grass roots lev­el to the top.

Be the change!