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The background to this year's National Climate March was one of two simultaneous trends. One is the increasingly ominous nature of the threat as evidenced by a steady stream of reports from around the world of the mounting effects of climate change over the past year. These reports are no more worrying than than the news that this year's minimum arctic sea ice extent set a new record low in what looks suspiciously like an acceleration of the previous linear trend. The possibility exists we may have already reach our first "tipping point" and the arctic ice cap may largely disappear within the next decade.

The other (equally ominous) trend is that of the government (and in fact most governments around the world) to make a lot of noise about climate change while using it as an excuse to implement policies that as best they know will not work (e.g. carbon trading) and at worst are going to make the problem a whole lot worse (e.g. biofuels). This has been put into stark relief by the news that venture capital funding for private security companies has surged ahead of green energy in the last year. The market clearly feels that there is more money to be made from protecting the rich from the problem than in actually trying to fix it.

Well a great day was had by all! We had three Eco Nurses, trying to heal the Carbon Clobbered Earth. The costumes were really great and the public were really receptive to the performance, it was great!

Small pledge 'Remedies' were handed out to the public, each giving details of a small contribution they could make towards the big solution.