CLIMATE CHANGE - MONUMENT IN ELBE RIVER BED, DRESDEN (NEWS ACCESS)

Dresden, 5.8.2003 - Greenpeace activists raise an overdimensional measuring stick as monument in the bed of river Elbe in Dresden to demonstrate the consequences of the man-made global warming and to remind of the floods in 2002. In two inflatables Greenpeace activists hold up banners in English and German saying 'Climate change is real' and 'Klimawandel: Wir sind mittendrin'. Jörg Feddern, Greenpeace Germany energy expert makes a statement and demands changes in the energy supply away from oil, coal and gas towards renewable energies.
Excessive carbon dioxide emission caused in particular by burning oil, coal and gas, is the main reason for the greenhouse effect and therefore climate change. Nevertheless there are multinational oil companies, like e.g. ExxonMobil (Esso), which negate the relationship between carbon dioxide emission and global warming.

On this tape: Statement: Jörg Feddern, Greenpeace Germany climate expert

1 Aug, 2003

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