Daily Archives: October 9, 2013

Maybe Pope Francis Will March

Dear Climate March Friends, Thanks to all of you who have been helping get the word out about the Climate March. The national media is still warming up to us, but the March and our marchers have received some excellent coverage at the local level and online recently, including this much-appreciated mention by Ted Glick in Grist. Check out our website for other stories. For those of you able to tune-in today online (12:30 p.m. central time), my talk show, The Fallon Forum, digs into Continue reading →

IPCC Report Reaffirms Need for Action

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued its long awaited AR5 report with a consensus on upping its level of confidence to over 95% that climate change is a manmade issue. “That statistic is a huge reason why we are mobilizing to march next year,” said Dave Murphy, Communications Director for The Great March for Climate Action. Ed Fallon, a talk show host and former Iowa lawmaker who founded and directs the March said, “Climate change is not the prevailing issue confronting our society, Continue reading →

March Goes International

“Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” While historically famous, perhaps this quote is just that – historical. The summation of individual human activity has transcended municipalities and nations, to cause unequaled, and often egregious, ramifications on our world. Contemporarily, we are collectively capable of physically altering the very environment we have inhabited for thousands of years. There is no longer such thing as “the middle of nowhere.” Everyone, everywhere, affects and is affected Continue reading →