July 30, 2008
VoteTheBay.org
I did a paper on the Chesapeake in undergrad and John Smith's descriptions of the Bay are vastly different than that of today's Bay and have stuck in my head every since. There were reefs of oysters where the shells would poke up out of the water visible to the naked eye. Boats had to be careful not to crash into them. The water was so clear you could see your anchor on the bottom well below the bottom of your ship. Wildlife and plantlife abounded and in fact some of the flora and fauna is now extinct to the area, or extinct all together. While the Chesapeake is still a sight to behold and beautiful in its own right today, the mere thought of what it once was is awe inspiring.
You can get more info here.
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June 5, 2008
In Case You Didn't Know...
It's World Environment Day! Go find out how you can make a difference!
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May 9, 2008
Grass for Gas?
Can you power your car using grass?
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April 22, 2008
Haagen Dazs Hopes to Save the Honey Bee
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Earth Day 2008: How Can You Get Involved?
You can help green your office.
You can stop your junk mail once and for all and save trees in the process.
You can plant a tree.
You can change a light bulb and possibly win $5,000 in the process!
You can reduce, reuse and recycle!
But no matter what you do today appreciate Mother Earth! Celebrate nature and do something wonderful for our planet!
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April 8, 2008
Awesome
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April 4, 2008
Create, Share, Change the World!
Connect2Earth...Check it out!
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March 28, 2008
Do Something! Earth Hour 2008
Get involved...Turn off your lights March 29, 2008 at 8pm Local Time for one hour. Get more info at EarthHour.org.
Also check out the video from the World Wildlife Federation:
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December 13, 2007
Northern Lights Energy Source Discovered
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Scientists think they have discovered the energy source of auroras borealis, the spectacular color displays seen in the upper latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.New data from NASA's Themis mission, a quintet of satellites launched this winter, found the energy comes from a stream of charged particles from the sun flowing like a current through twisted bundles of magnetic fields connecting Earth's upper atmosphere to the sun.
The energy is then abruptly released in the form of a shimmering display of lights, said principal investigator Vassilis Angelopoulos of the University of California at Los Angeles.
Results were presented Tuesday at the American Geophysical Union meeting.
In March, the satellites detected a burst of Northern Lights over Alaska and Canada. During the two-hour light show, the satellites measured particle flow and magnetic fields from space.
To scientists' surprise, the geomagnetic storm powering the auroras raced 400 miles in a minute across the sky. Angelopoulos estimated the storm's power was equal to the energy released by a magnitude 5.5 earthquake.
Wow! I really want to see this phenomena first hand one day. This is an interesting study to say the least! Ain't science grand? ;o)
Found via CNN.
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A Novel Concept To Deal With Carbon
Today, a company called Skyonic announced a novel new system, Skymine, which uses the carbon dioxide emitted from smokestacks to make baking soda. According to Skyonic CEO Joe David Jones, the system will be powered by waste heat from factories, and will produce food-grade baking soda.Last year, the utility company Luminant installed a pilot version of the system at its Big Brown Steam Electric Station in Fairfield, Texas.
There's still quite a bit of work to be done to make the current system viable on a large scale, but the baking soda idea offers solutions to some of the economic problems posed by other carbon sequestration methods.
Now that's a neat process! I love it when people put their minds to work to come up with a solution that not only makes a useful by product that can be sold for profit so that the process isn't expensive, which is why most companies drag their feet in terms of being green (even though it's been proven time and time again that being green actually cuts costs, but that's a rant for another time), but also cuts down on carbon in the atmosphere!
Found via CNN.
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Scientist: 'Arctic is screaming'
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point. One even speculated that summer sea ice would be gone in five years.Greenland's ice sheet melted nearly 19 billion tons more than the previous high mark, and the volume of Arctic sea ice at summer's end was half what it was just four years earlier, according to new NASA satellite data obtained by The Associated Press.
"The Arctic is screaming," said Mark Serreze, senior scientist at the government's snow and ice data center in Boulder, Colorado.
Just last year, two top scientists surprised their colleagues by projecting that the Arctic sea ice was melting so rapidly that it could disappear entirely by the summer of 2040.
This week, after reviewing his own new data, NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally said: "At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions."
Not surprising sadly, but heartbreaking none the less. There are some interesting aspects they are discovering as this proceeds and sadly it may be to late to turn the cycle around. Take the link below to read the entire article.
Found via CNN.
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June 26, 2007
Enjoy Your Green Stay
Remember when all a hotel had to do to show its concern for the environment was to ask its guests to reuse their towels?Hotels now are rolling out all sorts of green programs, in part because their business guests in particular are demanding it, and in part because the hotels are finding that going green saves money.
“Environmental issues are one of the hottest issues within the travel industry right now,” said Bill Connors, the executive director of the National Business Travel Association. The association is addressing the topic of eco-friendly elements in hotel design and operations for the first time at its annual convention in July.
Mr. Connors’s view is borne out by the rise in hotels registering to be certified under the United States Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program, a commercial-building rating system. “I think it’s a really noticeable trend,” said Max Zahniser, a program manager.
There are currently two certified hotels in the United States — a Marriott in Maryland and a Hilton in Washington — and several more are on the way. “At least three-quarters of the projects that have registered are in the last year or two,” Mr. Zahniser said.
I'm always amused (ok irritated) when people who don't know what they are talking about start yelling about how being green costs more, when in reality it can save you money. Turn your thermostat up in the summer and down in the winter you save money. Use CFL bulbs and you'll save money. Buy a car that gets better gas mileage, or look at how to cut down the miles you drive and you'll save money. The examples go on and on, but you get the picture.
Anyway now businesses, and in this particular case the travel industry, are catching on to just that! There are some really neat green ideas they put forth. You will see more and more of this sort of thing as time passes, but it's interesting that one of the first certified hotels is right here in Maryland!
Go green and save money. If you happen to be a business, you might just make some too.
Found via The New York Times.
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Yahoo! Names the 10 Greenest Cities in America
TOP 10 GREENEST CITIES
1. Hastings, NE
2. Pelzer, SC
3. San Carlos, CA
4. Mill Valley, CA
5. Topeka, KS
6. Dover, DE
7. Spring, TX
8. Lawrence, KS
9. Walnut Creek, CA
10. Fairfax, VA
How does your city rank?
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I work in San Carlos, CA. Never knew that.
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I was kind of surprised that Fairfax, VA and Dover, DE were on the list, given they are both nearby, but in reality I don't really know much about either town, though I've been to both.
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June 8, 2007
World's tigers on "catastrophic" path to extinction
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The world's wild tigers are on a "catastrophic" path to extinction as numbers continue to decline because of increased poaching, habitat destruction and poor conservation efforts by governments, a new report has said.In less than a century, Asia's largest predator has been relegated to isolated populations residing in only 7 percent of the areas they once occupied, according to a research paper published in the June edition of BioScience journal.
The report, titled "The Fate of Wild Tigers", said the loss of their habitat and the persistent killing of the wild cats had left areas such as the Caspian region and the Indonesian islands of Bali and Java devoid of tigers.
Countries such as India -- a stronghold of the tigers -- were inadequately implementing conservation policies and mismanaging funds set aside for the survival of the big cats, it added.
"While the tiger as a wild species will most likely not go extinct within the next half-century, its current trajectory is catastrophic," said the report, authored by 16 wildlife experts.
Very sad indeed. The path to extinction is often hard to get off of. Hopefully conservation efforts will prevail. Only time will tell.
Found via Reuters.
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June 5, 2007
Happy World Environment Day!
Celebrated every June 5th, World Environment Day is a way to draw attention to issues involving our environment across the globe. This year's celebration is focusing on the issues surrounding the world's rapidly melting ice.
Go the official page for more info!
Happy World Environment Day!
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May 2, 2007
Anne Arundel County Fails In Air Quality Report
Ozone Grade: F
Particle Pollution 24 Hour Grade: F
Particle Pollution Annual: F
Ah...Makes you just want to run out and breathe the "fresh" air doesn't it?!!?!?!
Found via Blog Arundel.
For more information visit the American Lung Association.
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Just out of curiosity, where was this picture taken? My husband and I love it! Thank you.
Posted by: Michelle Moffett at October 20, 2007 2:00 AM
Just out of curiosity, where was this picture taken? My husband and I love it! Thank you.
Posted by: Michelle Moffett at October 20, 2007 2:01 AM
I'm not sure which picture you're referring to since this post is pictureless. What was the picture of?
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April 27, 2007
Happy Arbor Day!
Today is Arbor Day! Get out and plant a tree!
Read more about Arbor Day and its history and significance here and here.
Happy Arbor Day everyone!
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My question had been deleted about this photo. My husband and I love this picture and think it's so beautiful. We were curious if it was taken in Oregon?
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Hi Michelle. The comment got posted on another topic that didn't have a picture with it instead of this one so I wasn't sure which picture you were referring to.
Most of the pictures on this site I have taken, but this one is clipart from MS Word. I'm not sure where it was taken, I was just looking for a beautiful tree picture for Arbor Day. Sorry I couldn't be of help.
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Thought For The Day
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.- Albert Einstein
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April 22, 2007
Happy Earth Day!
Today is Earth Day!
Do your part today (and every day for that matter) to go green!
Change a lightbulb! (Go to your local Home Depot store today and get a free CFL bulb!)
Get rid of junk mail and save some trees! New York City plans to plant a million new trees by 2017!
Attend an Earth Day sermon!
Whatever you do, make a difference, not just today but everyday! Be kind to Mother Earth!
Happy Earth Day everyone!
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hi Daff. Really enjoyed finding you although i admit it was from a marketing place that i did. you see. i work for greendimes, the company u mentioned in the post above. we are prepping a new campaign to end junk mail for good and are reaching out to current and previous fans for their support. the junk mail situation is crazy out of hand and we r asking for your help! thanks in advance and good luck. ceesutton71@gmail.com or colin@greendimes.com
colin sutton
Posted by: colin at August 1, 2007 10:59 AM
Thanks for stopping by! You guys really do awesome work! :o)
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April 14, 2007
CFL's and mercury
One area of concern for some environmentalists has been the amount of mercury in CFL's. If one of the light bulbs is improperly disposed of by a consumer we run the risk of putting a heavy metal like mercury into the environment. Today I was reading over the subject in one of Dianne's environmental magazines called Mother Earth News.
Most experts say not to worry about the health effects of exposure to the mercury in a compact fluorescent, even if the bulb breaks. As a frame of reference, one CFL contains 4 milligrams of mercury, just a fraction of the 500 milligrams found in old mercury thermometers, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).In fact, using compact fluorescents actually reduces mercury pollution, because the main source of mercury pollution is coal-burning power plants — the most common source of electricity in the United States. According to the EPA, the power used during the life of an incandescent bulb breaks down to about 10 milligrams of mercury pollution, compared to only 2.4 milligrams to operate a CFL for the same length of time.
“Consumers should know that the mercury in CFLs is not going to be detrimental to them in their home,” Reed says. “But it’s important to responsibly dispose of them, as you would any product that contains mercury — batteries, old thermometers and thermostats.”
So the good news is that you're still better off on the mercury front if you use CFL's than if you don't. I know what you're thinking that one of the largest sources of mercury containments in our environment, (roughly 41% or so), comes from coal fired power plants that also represent more than half of the power in this country. Also the current administration is trying desperately to increase those contributions to the environment, so you have to take into account that unless some serious regulations are enacted this number could grow massively over the next couple of years.
Now the adverse effects of mercury are pretty well known at this point, the NRDC has a decent article on the subject.
Once in the human body, mercury acts as a neurotoxin, interfering with the brain and nervous system.Exposure to mercury can be particularly hazardous for pregnant women and small children. During the first several years of life, a child's brain is still developing and rapidly absorbing nutrients. Prenatal and infant mercury exposure can cause mental retardation, cerebral palsy, deafness and blindness. Even in low doses, mercury may affect a child's development, delaying walking and talking, shortening attention span and causing learning disabilities.
In adults, mercury poisoning can adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation and can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. A growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may also lead to heart disease.
Pretty scary stuff when you think of how much of it is being pumped into our atmosphere without concern or reservation by the power industry. So the key here is to make sure that you deal with the CFL's in the proper way. NEMA gives some instructions on how to clean up a broken CFL to make sure you don't contaminate your home. The NEMA folks also have a breakdown of mercury amounts in the average home. The reality being that an old style thermometer has 122 times the amount of mercury in them and how many people have dropped those on the floors in their homes without thinking about it. We had even more than that in our old thermostat that we replaced with the electronic one in our house according to the NEMA. Everyone recommends that you check out Earth911.org to find out the recycling programs in your area.
So what's the summation on this one. Get your light bulbs switched over now, because it's good for the country and good for your bottom line.
Read more over at 18seconds.org and Reduce your carbon.
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April 9, 2007
The Daily Compost
I just discovered that My Organic Market has a blog entitled The Daily Compost. Add it to your RSS readers now! ;o)
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April 5, 2007
Vanity Fair's 2nd Annual Green Edition
Supposedly on newstands now, though Jamison looked and can't find it yet:
Click on the picture above to find out more!
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March 23, 2007
While I Wasn't Looking
While I wasn't looking Al Gore started a blog. For years I've thought he needed one.
Check it out here.
Thanks to Jamison for leading me in the right direction. :O)
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Why does Inhoffe have his panties in a wad. He was rude and his behavior denoted contempt.
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March 14, 2007
Debunking the NYT's sloppy hit piece on Gore
I've been increasingly amused by people in the corporate media over the last few months as they try desperately to keep the Republican party in absolute power and control of the United States. They grasp desperately at straws hoping if they can just tell one more lie or make one more false accusation that they can bail out their buddies on the radical right. Amusingly by the very same token you have the radical right screaming to the heavens that the media is against them on everything. You can't read this hit piece from the New York Times and not come to the conclusion that the corporate media and the Republican party are one continous entity. The notion of a left wing media is nothing more than Republican mythology. From one end of this country to the other there is one massive push by the corporate media to cover-up, or at least rationalize the radical right wing Republican party's actions at every single turn. These kinds of hit pieces are the flavor dejour for the corporate media these days, actually it harkens back to an early time in corporate media when it was referred to as yellow journalism.
Read more over at Grist and Think Progress.
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February 28, 2007
It's Called Green Power And Yes It Costs More!
You knew after his big night at the Oscars Sunday, the far right would come out in full force against former Vice President Gore. Since these single-minded sensationalists never let those pesky "facts" get in the way, Keith breaks down the utility bill.I have no problem with "think-tanks" scrutinizing Al Gore, but (a) for The Tennessee Center for Policy Research to call itself an independent and nonpartisan organization is laughable and (b) if they want to maintain that facade, try getting the full story at least.
(Nicole: Do you suppose that they are equally up in arms by the fact that taxpayers are paying Dick Cheney's electric bill at the Vice President's mansion? You know, the one that had an $186,000 electric bill in 2001? Nah, that probably doesn't bother them in the least.)
Not much to add to that, other than there is a HUGE difference in using renewable power sources (solar, wind power, etc.) and getting your power from coal fired electricity plants. They never seem to want you to know the whole truth though. Oh and he CHOSE to use the more expensive, greener alternatives. Just so you know. They also forgot to tell you about the various green measures Mr. Gore and his family have taken in their home. Again they just aren't into giving you all the facts. Do a little research yourself that doesn't involve right wings sources and the facts and the truth are there. It doesn't take a rocket scientist.
Found via Crooks and Liars. Click on the picture above to see Mr. Olbermann tell it like it truly is.
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this story just irritates me to no end. You summed it all up very nicely right here, Dianne. It's just an attempt by the neocons to swift-boat Gore. And it's getting downright tiresome. It's so obvious that it's laughable. They are totally pitiful at this point.
Posted by: Monica at February 28, 2007 10:39 AM
I love Keith Olbermann. Too many liberals bite their tongues too frequently. There's a war being fought for the future of our existence. Is there anything else more worth fighting for?
As Gore says, fighting global warming is a moral issue.
Posted by: Scott at February 28, 2007 1:18 PM
Monica, I'm with you 100%. I'm just so tired of the constant ignorance when it comes to this subject!
Scott, it is a moral issue. And I think we all have to realize that it isn't political before any progress can be made. Of course there are certain factions (the ones that yell the loudest about environmental concerns being bad) who don't want a plan to be made, nor a plan to work. It's a very tough issue, but it has to be met head on.
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February 26, 2007
I Need to Wake Up
It's a great song and video that won the Oscar last night from the Oscar award winning "An Inconvient Truth".
If you haven't watched it, you need too.
Read more over at Climate Crisis.
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A very, very inconvenient truth
Time for ole Al to walk the walk.
Posted by: lloyd at February 26, 2007 10:22 PM
Wow, that's is the worst written hit piece I think I've ever seen in my life. Are you sure you want to lead with that? Your argument is that since Al Gore is rich and lives in a big house, he's not entitled to the same rights as any other American? It's baffling and once again you use a single data set of data points and claim a trend. How much energy did Al Gore's house use before he moved into it. And what about all the Secret Service and everything else that goes along with protecting him? Are you saying he's better off than you that he doesn't deserve the same rights? It's a little loopy for the party of the wealthy elite to make that kind of argument. Also this ignores the more likely possibility which is that Al Gore is a big fan of carbon offsets. I suspect a little research would yield that he's using renewable energy combined with carbon offsets for what isn't renewable. Which brings up another interesting point, why is it when I research your TCPR that I keep getting relationships with AEI showing up?? I know these radical right wing think tanks are interconnected, but honestly do you think an organization that is a front for Oil Company money is really the best evidence you've got at your disposal?
Posted by: Jamison at February 27, 2007 8:09 AM
First, Al Gore urges people in his movie to reduce their electricity consumption. Therefore, he has opened the door for the question; what has Al Gore done personally to reduce his own energy consumption? Al Gore has pointed the finger, the good thing about finger pointing is that there are always three pointing back at you.
Second, I am fascinated by the racket known as carbon offsets. Basically, the underlying principle is that if you can afford the offsets, your energy consumption or over consumption is limitless. Further, these offsets do nothing to improve the environment in the areas where the energy is consumed. And, the offsets can't replace the non-renewable resources consumed.
I don't disagree that our energy consumption is out of hand but believe everybody should play their part in this global effort to reduce energy consumption, not just pay lip service to it or write a check.
Third, I've got a simple theory that I'd like to run by you. But first, would you agree that the sun has the single greatest impact over our climate? I realize there are other factors, the tilt of the earth on its axis in relation to the sun, the orbit of the earth in relation to the sun, but ultimately, it all comes back to the sun. After all, the earth revolves around the sun, not the other way around.
So if the sun plays such a significant role in the climate of the world, what would happen if the sun began to burn hotter or cooler? What if the temperature of the sun flucutated? Would that mean that the earth's temperatures would also do the same?
"The Sun's output is not entirely constant. Nor is the amount of sunspot activity. There was a period of very low sunspot activity in the latter half of the 17th century called the Maunder Minimum. It coincides with an abnormally cold period in northern Europe sometimes known as the Little Ice Age. Since the formation of the solar system the Sun's output has increased by about 40%." Link
And, if there were no sun, would the earth continue to get warmer because of all the green house gases humans are releasing into atmosphere?
It's entirely possible that human beings have no impact at all global warming.
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Posted by: lloyd at February 27, 2007 9:56 AM
You asked the question and it was answered. And it's pretty obvious that you haven't watched "An Inconvenient Truth". Because there is no finger pointing going on. It's a movie about what's happening and gives suggestions on what each of us can do to help solve the problem. Never does Al Gore say that you have to do any one of them.
It's amazing to me that the Republican party pushes carbon offsets as the cureall for all environmental problems, right until someone they disagree with starts using them. How does that work exactly? Only big business that has been holding us hostage gets the get out of jail free card offered by carbon offsets? So we all have to change and not them. Doesn't seem fair to me.
The Solar variation theory is quite amusing. Everyone knows that the sun works in 11 solar spot cycles, so it's been a desperate attempt by the radical right to try and use that passing knowledge to try to blame global warming on it. When you are telling a big lie, it always helps to start with a kernel of truth I guess. Before 1980 half the temperature change that occurred on the Earth could be attributed to solar activity. As we all know from 1900 to 1950 there was a period of lower solar activity and as the sun returned to normal activity that caused the temperature to rise back up to normal levels. The radical right has pointed to this as incontrovertible proof that we can ignore all the additional change that has occurred since 1980. Have you noticed that we are the bottom of the 11 year cycle of solar activity and we are still having the hottest years on record? That means in 11 years when the sun is at its most powerful solar activity level we are going to be starting from the hottest levels in history. It's an interesting theory, but it just doesn't explain away anything.
But I think it's an amusing exercise when I think about it. Let's take leave of our senses for a moment and assume you are correct. Let's say that humanity isn't responsible for anything that's happening on Earth at this time. Does that change the fact that coastal cities are going to flood? Does that change the fact that we will suffer droughts and freakish weather events. Are you serious proposing that we surrender all of human advancement and civilization to the inevitable and wait for death to overtake us? It seems a bit extreme to me.
Posted by: Jamison at February 27, 2007 10:50 AM
I am absolutely disgusted and SICK of the repeated attempts by the neocons on the right to use smear campaigns to discredit people. SICK OF IT! And anyone who sheepishly follows is dispicable. Lloyd should be ashamed of himself. This is freaking ridiculous. Let's just call it what it is. A smear campaign.
Al Gore is doing a GOOD THING teaching people about the effects of global warming. And Jamison is right, never in his movie does he point any fingers and tell anyone that they have to do anything about it. He is educating people on global warming. THAT'S IT. At the end there are some things listed that are printed on the screen that people can do to help. And what is so wrong with trying to do something about it? What is the freaking problem with shutting off your lights once in awhile? What is the worst that can happen? You, personally will benefit by having a lower electricity bill. Plus if we all do just a little something it will begin to end our dependance on foreign oil. So even if you don't believe in global warming then it still doesn't hurt you (and may help you) to shut your freaking lights off when you leave a room. The benefits of lowering your environmental footprint far, far outweight the costs. Why the fight against it? I just don't get it! I am ready to pull my hair out.
Lloyd. Just watch the freaking movie before you go sheepishly spreading the smear about AL Gore. ugh.
Posted by: Moni at February 27, 2007 3:04 PM
Nice...so dissent is a smear campaign from the neocons on the right.
I saw the movie, he made suggestions on how to reduce consumption. I just wish he followed what he was preaching and turned off that heated indoor pool for a couple of days.
Rupert Murdoch and news corp. is now carbon neutral. I'm not going to go around and hold them up as model of great protectors of the environment. Those admirations are held for people who actually live their lives each day striving to make their environmental footprint on earth as small as possible.
Posted by: lloyd at February 27, 2007 4:41 PM
No actually it's all a part of an organized effort by the radical right today. What did you not think we'd all notice the organized effort? You drones head out on your mission, repeating the exact same lies over and over again everywhere you go. You can't change the fact that the lie comes from a Republican Oil Company front can you? This is a standard Republican swift boating operation. Honestly I feel sorry for you for embarrassing yourself like this, because each time you guys try this you are worse at it.
Dissent is fine, but propaganda to support your radical ideology is a different matter all together. You've been exposed for the puppet you are, now run back under whatever rock you crawled out from under, because you'r e going to lose this argument and then you're going to lose your temper, break the rules and get banned. Save yourself the fake outrage and self righteous indignation, and just give up on pushing your lies any further. They won't sell here.
Posted by: Jamison at February 27, 2007 5:02 PM
I am not sure they are lies. I didn't get this from right wing media. I got it from this link and then used the original source for my original link.
Second, Al Gore today responded to the "swift boating" by saying that he was working to reduce energy consumption through the installation of solar panels and replacing the windows.
But he didn't deny that he consumes over 18,000,000 watts/hour each month (that's my own editorial 18,000 x 1000). They admit as much in his response today. But ultimately he says that its okay because they pay a third party to be carbon neutral.
I am going to bottom line this and be done. I am opposed to the concept of paying a third party to become carbon neutral - period. I am opposed to right wing extremist big corporate businesses doing it, I am opposed to rich people doing it. I am opposed because it enables them to justify over consumption. Ending our dependence on foreign oil and carbon based fuels depends on each of us directly doing our part, not paying somebody else to do it for us.
Our family does its part. Our thermostat stays at 68 when we are at home, drops to 45 at night and when we aren't home. We own just one car which is a ulev that gets 45 miles the gallon and we commute to work using the closest mass transportation to reach our jobs. For all of our hard work to conserve, our electric bills are about $75 per month.
Regarding your attacks on me, that's okay. It's your blog and you can treat people however you want. Your prerogative.
I wish you the best of luck converting the masses of undecided voters to your points of view. I only hope that the Democrat Party, after it has the opportunity to once again rule this country, will do a better job uniting this country.
Posted by: Lloyd at February 28, 2007 7:22 AM
Attacks on you? You attack Al Gore, I prove you wrong and point out that your facts are flawed at best and disingenuous at worst, and it's my fault that you're wrong? That's what I love about talking to the radical right, no matter what happens you guys are always the victim.
I really find your political advice the most laughable of all. The radical right has been pushing the myth of the undecided voter for years as a method to destroy the Democratic platform, while you've been focused only on your radicalized base. Trying to make us rush to please an insignificant portion of the voters while ignoring our base. Do you think I just fell off the turnip truck yesterday? Democrats have always stood for uniting the country. It's only you and your buddies on the radical right with your wedge issues and radical ideology that have divided us.
In the market place ideas the Republican party has nothing but bad ideas to offer. And I know that sucks, but remember your political affiliation is a choice, you can abandon the part of bad ideas anytime you want. The rest of America has to feel free to follow their lead.
Posted by: Jamison at February 28, 2007 8:03 AM
I would like to add that what is happenning by the right is NOT dissent. Dissent is when you have an adult argument with someone and respectfully dissagree with someone and have the facts to back it up. Attack is what the right wing bloggers (and you) are going to Al Gore. You are attacking him for having a high electric bill (which has nothing to do with the greater issue of global warming, btw). what you are doing is not dissent. It is an attack.
Posted by: Moni at February 28, 2007 5:49 PM
February 25, 2007
Yes!!
Best Documentary, Features: An Inconvenient Truth
Sadly Al Gore did not announce he was running for President though.
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February 15, 2007
Concerts To Help Raise Awareness Of Global Warming
Feb. 15, 2007 — Recently nominated for a Nobel Prize and waiting to walk the red carpet at the Academy Awards, former Vice President Al Gore will unveil his next big endeavor today from Los Angeles: a single-day series of concerts to put the issue of climate change before a global audience.Modeled after 2005's Live 8 concerts highlighting African debt relief, the event is scheduled for July 7 with seven concerts on seven continents.
Gore is expected to make the announcement alongside musicians Jon Bon Jovi, Sting and Pharrell Williams.
This is a brilliant idea! Take the message far and wide. The science is there, sometimes you just have to use other avenues to get the message to people that might normally not understand. Once again Al Gore is ahead of the game.
Now sir if you'd just run for President! ;o) (The article also discusses that little tidbit.)
Found via ABCNews.com.
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February 8, 2007
Fight Global Warming
Check out the Fight Global Warming page and be sure to check out their page Global Warming Myths and Facts page...It's especially enlightening!
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Another Natural Gardening Company
TreeHugger pointed out another natural gardening company today that I had not heard of before: The Natural Gardening Company. Check them out! It looks like they have some really neat stuff!
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February 2, 2007
Gore, Watt-Cloutier Are Nobel Prize Candidates for Climate Work
Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and Canadian activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier were nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of their efforts to raise awareness about the threat of climate change.``They are both key figures who put climate change on the agenda in global politics,'' said Heidi Soerensen, a Norwegian member of parliament, who made the nominations with fellow MP Boerge Brende. ``The threat to the climate is so important that if it isn't solved, it could lead to huge conflicts as people fight over access to water and land.''
Scientists from institutions including the Norwegian Polar Institute say carbon-dioxide emissions from cars, power plants and other human sources are causing temperatures and sea levels to rise, leading to storms, droughts, heat waves and other climate disruptions. This year is forecast to be the warmest on record globally, with temperatures in 2007 likely to be 0.54 degrees Celsius above the seasonal average, the U.K.'s Met Office said last month.
Gore, 58, last year published the book and documentary film ``An Inconvenient Truth'' as part of a campaign against global warming. Watt-Cloutier, 53, a spokeswoman for the Inuit people in the Arctic, has called for countries such as the U.S. to cut emissions of so-called greenhouse gases thought to cause global warming.
``Gore's `An Inconvenient Truth' helped open the eyes of many people, particularly in the U.S., to the threat of climate change,'' Soerensen said in an interview today. ``Watt-Cloutier has also been successful in putting a human face to climate change, by showing how it affects the Inuit people.''
Congrats Mr. Gore. You work tirelessly to educate the world about global warming and you more than deserve this award! Good luck!
Found via Bloomberg.com.
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January 26, 2007
Birds In Iraq
The BBC has an interesting article up about bird conservation efforts going on in Iraq. Check it out...It's an interesting read!
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January 23, 2007
Report Due On Global Warming
WASHINGTON - Human-caused global warming is here — visible in the air, water and melting ice — and is destined to get much worse in the future, an authoritative global scientific report will warn next week."The smoking gun is definitely lying on the table as we speak," said top U.S. climate scientist Jerry Mahlman, who reviewed all 1,600 pages of the first segment of a giant four-part report. "The evidence ... is compelling."
Andrew Weaver, a Canadian climate scientist and study co-author, went even further: "This isn't a smoking gun; climate is a batallion of intergalactic smoking missiles."
The first phase of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is being released in Paris next week. This segment, written by more than 600 scientists and reviewed by another 600 experts and edited by bureaucrats from 154 countries, includes "a significantly expanded discussion of observation on the climate," said co-chair Susan Solomon, a senior scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She and other scientists held a telephone briefing on the report Monday.
That report will feature an "explosion of new data" on observations of current global warming, Solomon said.
Here's the consensus shown yet again that global warming is real and it's worse than first thought. This report has the backing of scientists across the globe. You can't get much more consensus than that!
Global warming is "happening now, it's very obvious," said Mahlman, a former director of NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab who lives in Boulder, Colo. "When you look at the temperature of the Earth, it's pretty much a no-brainer."Look for an "iconic statement" — a simple but strong and unequivocal summary — on how global warming is now occurring, said one of the authors, Kevin Trenberth, director of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, also in Boulder.
The February report will have "much stronger evidence now of human actions on the change in climate that's taken place," Rajendra K. Pachauri told the AP in November. Pachauri, an Indian climatologist, is the head of the international climate change panel.
An early version of the ever-changing draft report said "observations of coherent warming in the global atmosphere, in the ocean, and in snow and ice now provide stronger joint evidence of warming."
And the early draft adds: "An increasing body of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on other aspects of climate including sea ice, heat waves and other extremes, circulation, storm tracks and precipitation."
The world's global average temperature has risen about 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit from 1901 to 2005. The two warmest years on record for the world were 2005 and 1998. Last year was the hottest year on record for the United States.
The report will draw on already published peer-review science. Some recent scientific studies show that temperatures are the hottest in thousands of years, especially during the last 30 years; ice sheets in Greenland in the past couple years have shown a dramatic melting; and sea levels are rising and doing so at a faster rate in the past decade.
Also, the second part of the international climate panel's report — to be released in April — will for the first time feature a blockbuster chapter on how global warming is already changing health, species, engineering and food production, said NASA scientist Cynthia Rosenzweig, author of that chapter.
I will also add that it's good to see some US agencies breaking away from being stifled on global warming as the Bush administration has tried to do over the past few years. 1 degree here or there doesn't sound like a lot, but in reality it's a HUGE leap! It only takes a few degrees here or there to melt the polar ice caps! Let's hope it doesn't take entire cities being flooded out to get people to wake up and realize what is happening here.
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January 22, 2007
Executives Push Bush On Climate Change
WASHINGTON - The chief executives of 10 major corporations and business groups, on the eve of the State of the Union address, urged President Bush on Monday to support mandatory reductions in climate-changing pollution and establish reductions targets."We can and must take prompt action to establish a coordinated, economy-wide market-driven approach to climate protection," the executives from a broad range of industries said in a letter to the president.
Bush, who in the past has rejected mandatory controls on carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases, was expected to address climate change in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, but has repeatedly argued that voluntary efforts are the best approach.
Major industry groups such as the Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers continue to oppose so-called "cap and trade" proposals to cut climate changing pollution, mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels.
But the 10 executives, representing major utilities, aluminum and chemical companies and financial institutions, said mandatory reductions are needed and that "the cornerstone of this approach" should be a cap-and-trade system.
The officials, expected to elaborate on their plan at a news conference later Monday, include the chief executives Alcoa Inc., PB America Inc., DuPont Co., Caterpillar Inc., General Electric Co., and Duke Energy Corp.
In the letter they urged Congress to enact legislation "to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions."
I must say I'm surprised with some of the companies that are calling for this, but this is definitely a good sign. I'm sure it will be ignored by Bush and Co., but it's still a step in the right direction.
Found via Yahoo! News.
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January 20, 2007
How To Go Green Guides
TreeHugger has an excellent page with How To Go Green Guides! Check it out...They have information on how to green every aspect of your life!
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Surge in carbon levels raises fears of runaway warming
New figures from dozens of measuring stations across the world reveal that concentrations of CO2, the main greenhouse gas, rose at record levels during 2006 - the fourth year in the last five to show a sharp increase. Experts are puzzled because the spike, which follows decades of more modest annual rises, does not appear to match the pattern of steady increases in human emissions.At its most far reaching, the finding could indicate that global temperatures are making forests, soils and oceans less able to absorb carbon dioxide - a shift that would make it harder to tackle global warming. Such a shift would worsen even the gloomy predictions of the Stern Review which warned that we had little over a decade to tackle rising emissions to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
But the Bushites don't want you to know this:
UPDATE: The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) has now told us that the story below is based on preliminary data for December, which it should not have published. It has withdrawn the data pending further analysis. As a result, the provisional annual growth rate for 2006 displayed on the Noaa website now does not include December, which means it is now lower than the 2.6ppm we reported. Pieter Tans, the scientist in charge of the data, said: "It doesn't affect the trend, there is definitely something there. CO2 growth in 2006 was still higher than average and four of the last five years have been higher than average."
Of course they pulled the data. It didn't fit into what they want to be reality so they yanked it from public view and then it feeds into the notion that global warming isn't real because the data has been yanked. This is why these sort of things should not be under governmental control. NOAA and the EPA have both been gutted during the last 7 years under Bush's regime. It's a pity and a shame really.
Found in the The Guardian via AMERICAblog.
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January 18, 2007
Bills on Climate Move to Spotlight in New Congress
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 — The climate here has definitely changed.Legislation to control global warming that once had a passionate but quixotic ring to it is now serious business. Congressional Democrats are increasingly determined to wrest control of the issue from the White House and impose the mandatory controls on carbon dioxide emissions that most smokestack industries have long opposed.
Four major Democratic bills have been announced, with more expected. One of these measures, or a blend of them, stands an excellent chance of passage in this Congress or the next, industry and environmental lobbyists said in interviews.
Many events have combined to create the new direction — forsythia blooming in lawmakers’ gardens in January, polar bears lacking the ice they need to hunt and Al Gore’s movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” along with pragmatic executives seeking an idea of future costs and, especially, the arrival of a Democratic-controlled Congress. There was evidence of the changed mood all over Washington this week.
On Wednesday, leading scientists and evangelical pastors jointly declared their intention to fight the causes of climate change and the public confusion on the subject. Cheryl Johns, a professor at the Church of God Theological Seminary, called that problem “nature deficit disorder.”
Another news conference on Wednesday featured executives of the heavily regulated electric utility industry embracing Senators Dianne Feinstein of California and Thomas R. Carper of Delaware, both Democrats. The senators were offering separate bills to add regulations, including a cap on carbon dioxide emissions.
A step in the right direction! Let's hope they stay on this path! We need change and we needed it years ago, but moving in the right direction is much better than the previous 7 years of moving backward!
Found via the New York Times.
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January 7, 2007
Council's shake-up of Board of Appeals sparks new optimism
Normally I leave the environmental blogging to Dianne, because she's actually got a good sense of the subject and a whole lot more interest. I mostly just love the technology associated with environmentalism. While I can plant trees and grass with the rest of them, I'd much rather be indoors away from the monstrous little critters who would happily eat me while I'm trying to save their habitat. When I think of a quiet walk in the woods, it always involves an asphalt path and 3 feet of mowed area on each side so I don't have to get too close to "nature". This kind of talk makes Dianne's head hurt, but I'm perfectly happy to save the environment for as long as I don't have to get near it except under the most rare of circumstances.
Anyway, this is one of those situations were Dianne's world and my world sort of crossed. Dianne was livid to discover that some Board of Appeals had approved what can only be described as a desecration of Little Dobbins Island. I looked at the pictures and I would tend to agree that something foul was a foot. And add in my natural dislike for the Republican two sets of laws, one for us poor people and one set for their wealth buddies, I was on board with being outraged about this one as well. So imagine my surprise when I heard that Republicans had done in some of their own over this little affair. Totally out of character, I suspect it's just a political maneuver trying to split the environmentalist vote next election cycle since Republicans never question give aways to the wealthy.
Then I was going through the list of names of the new appointees and sure enough I recognized one of them Andrew Pruski. He's one of the first people that introduced himself to me at my first Young Democrats meeting and ran for the DCC and County Council this primary cycle. It's good to see such an important post falling to a guy that I know to be a pillar of the community. It makes me a lot more confident that we won't see any more of the kind of disgraceful favoritism and corruption that we saw from the previous board with a great guy like Andrew on the job.
Congratulations to you Mr. Pruski, you've earned it!
Read more over at Baltimore Sun.
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December 29, 2006
This Is NOT A "Natural" Warming Cycle!!
TORONTO, Ontario (AP) -- A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada's Arctic, scientists said.The mass of ice broke clear 16 months ago from the coast of Ellesmere Island, about 800 kilometers (497 miles) south of the North Pole, but no one was present to see it in Canada's remote north.
Scientists using satellite images later noticed that it became a newly formed ice island in just an hour and left a trail of icy boulders floating in its wake.
Warwick Vincent of Laval University, who studies Arctic conditions, traveled to the newly formed ice island and could not believe what he saw.
"This is a dramatic and disturbing event. It shows that we are losing remarkable features of the Canadian North that have been in place for many thousands of years. We are crossing climate thresholds, and these may signal the onset of accelerated change ahead," Vincent said Thursday.
In 10 years of working in the region he has never seen such a dramatic loss of sea ice, he said.
The collapse was so powerful that earthquake monitors 250 kilometers (155 miles) away picked up tremors from it.
The Ayles Ice Shelf, roughly 66 square kilometers (41 square miles) in area, was one of six major ice shelves remaining in Canada's Arctic.
Scientists say it is the largest event of its kind in Canada in 30 years and point their fingers at climate change as a major contributing factor.
I've said it before and I'll say it again...Anyone that thinks this is normal is just fooling themselves! We are seeing an unprecedented temperature shift the likes of which this planet has NEVER seen. Yes there are documented warming cycles, but nothing like this. This latest spike over the past 100 years or so is more massive than anything ever recorded throughout history! Global warming IS real and these sorts of occurrences go to show that the scientists are right and unfortunately we are going to see a lot more of these events in the very near future. I'm not sure what it takes to convince the nay sayers or how many more cataclysmic weather events it will take, but it's time to wake up and smell reality!
Found via CNN.
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Wow! That's an ice cube 2/3rds the size of DC!
Posted by: cjmr at December 29, 2006 10:32 AM
December 27, 2006
Polar Bears Threatened
Northern latitudes are warming twice as rapidly as the rest of the globe, according to a 2004 scientific assessment, and by the end of the century annual ocean temperatures in the Arctic may rise an additional 13 degrees Fahrenheit. As a result, researchers predict that summer sea ice, which polar bears use as a platform to hunt for ringed seals, will decline 50 to 100 percent. Just this month, researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research outlined a worst-case scenario in which summer sea ice could disappear by 2040.
This is sad, yet not surprising given the state of our environment. Over the past few years I've seen a lot of information coming out about the fact that more and more polar bears are drowning because they are having to swim further and further distances to find ice to climb on to and to hunt on. It's time to stop burying our heads in the sand and ignoring the fact that we are causing massive environmental problems on a global scale. Our survival, as well as the survival of all of Earth's creatures, depends upon it.
Found via the Washington Post.
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December 7, 2006
Speaking Of Global Warming
Six injured as tornado hits LondonLONDON, England (CNN) -- A tornado hit a residential area of London on Thursday, injuring at least six people, according to ambulance service staff.
Police were alerted to the tornado in north-west London at around 11 a.m., a Scotland Yard spokeswoman said.
One man was taken to hospital suffering from serious head injuries, and five people were treated at the scene for minor injuries and shock.
The storm, with winds of around 150 mph (240 kph), ripped roofs off some homes, tore down walls and trees, and left streets strewn with debris. One car was buried under fallen bricks, video footage from the scene showed.
"I could see a huge cloud rolling up the street, making this tremendous sound," resident Daniel Bidgood told the BBC. "I went to try to take a picture of it but a shower of debris smashed all the windows of my house."
Another eyewitness, Sally Johnson, said she thought she was going to die. "All the cars and the windows, everything (was) smashed in," she told Sky. "There's debris everywhere, you can hardly walk."
"It was like some sort of cyclone," said resident Tim Klotz.
"I looked up through a skylight and debris was falling through the air. I heard what seemed like large, clay dominoes falling, which I think were roof tiles," Klotz said.
Experts say that while Britain experiences more than 30 tornadoes a year, it is rare for them to cause damage on the scale seen in London on Thursday.
Local weather reports said warmer than normal temperatures this fall contributed to formation of the tornado.
Yeah, but global warming isn't real. Just keep telling yourself that.
Found via CNN.
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December 6, 2006
Check It Out!
What more is to be said? What are you waiting for? Go! ;o)
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It's About Time!
Boxer Says No More Environment RollbacksWASHINGTON (AP) -- The Democrat poised to take over the Senate environment committee promises a "sea change" from six years of Republican inaction on global warming and says she expects Congress to send President Bush legislation to start curbing greenhouse gases.
Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, who will lead the Environment and Public Works Committee beginning in January, acknowledged Tuesday she may fall short of her goal: imposing the nation's first mandatory limits on industrial emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.
"I have no line in the sand," she said in an interview with The Associated Press. "Even a little step will look like a big step."
In the interview, Boxer also promised to end Bush administration rollbacks on environmental rules if they are not supported by science.
"Any kind of weakening of environmental laws or secrecy or changes in the dead of night - it's over," Boxer said. "We're going to for once, finally, make this committee an environment committee, not an anti-environment committee. ... This is a sea change that is coming to this committee."
Her chairmanship will be an abrupt turnaround from Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., whose last hearing Wednesday as chairman will be devoted to his view that the news media have fanned alarmism about global warming. Inhofe, who calls global warming a hoax, blocked attempts in his committee to regulate carbon dioxide.
Boxer's first hearing next month also will be devoted to global warming, but from an opposite point of view from Inhofe's.
"This is a potential crisis of a magnitude we've never seen," she said Tuesday, explaining that her goal is to impose mandatory caps on carbon dioxide, a step vehemently opposed by Bush's top environmental advisers.
Nonetheless, she promised to hear from all sides before trying to move a bill to Senate passage. "I very much want the environment to go back to being a nonpartisan issue," she said.
She said her model will be a new California law that imposes the first statewide limit on greenhouse gases and seeks to cut emissions by 25 percent, dropping them to 1990 levels by 2020. "Real goals, real percentages," she said.
Other areas of primary concern include children's health and toxic chemicals, and contaminated toxic waste sites yet to be cleaned up under the Superfund program. She said she also intends to use a committee chairman's powers to obtain documents on how regulations have been developed and priorities chosen.
"We want to send a signal to the world," Boxer said, complaining the United States now lags behind more than 50 other countries addressing global warming. She said she has received calls from several foreign leaders expressing hope for a new U.S. environmental policy.
It's about time someone started taking this problem seriously! I will be upfront with you and tell you that I think James Inhofe is a complete idiot shill for corporations that don't want to change. They pay him lots of money to spew his ignorance far and wide. But the fact of the matter is that you can't ignore science...Oh wait I guess you can if you're a Republican with their head buried in the sand!
Anyway, more power to you Ms. Boxer. I hope that you can do what you plan to do. I eagerly await news of your progress.
Found via the AP.
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December 5, 2006
Must See DVD
Coming soon to DVD The Great Warming:
We are living at the dawn of a new epoch. Year by year, degree by degree, Earth is growing warmer... a legacy of the Industrial Revolution, population growth, and our addiction to technology, speed and power.Just as other generations spoke of a Great Plague and a Great Depression, our children will be compelled to endure The Great Warming - and find a way to conquer its consequences.
Filmed in eight countries on four continents, endorsed by dozens of the world's leading scientists, this three-hour television series is the most factually accurate, visually stunning and wide-ranging production ever mounted about this complex, fascinating subject.
It's time to stop burying our heads in the sand. At this point if you don't believe in global warming you're just like the people who didn't believe the world is round or those who thought the Sun orbited the Earth. It's time to wake up to reality. Our lives and the lives of our children and our children's children depend upon it!
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