[GPSCC-chat] Plenary

[Gerry Gras]

We are already at 387.

Gerry


Wes Rolley wrote:

> I won't be able to make the Plenary.  However, I am spending some time 
> working the phones to try and make sure that we get local Press 
> Coverage...e.g. call to Managing Editor of Merc/News to make sure that 
> they cover it.
> 
> There are many things on the agenda, not the least of which is the fact 
> that for many it will be the first, maybe the only, opportunity to watch 
> and listen to our candidates for statewide office.
> 
> Having said that, I am compelled to make the following comment regarding 
> the seriousness of the climate change situation as we know it now.  The 
> big unknown for climate change has involved the potential for a massive 
> release of methane gas from frozen deposits under the Arctic Ocean. 
> Methane may be comparatively short lived in the atmosphere, its 
> influence being measured in decades rather than centuries, but it has 
> not been used as a primary feedback into the climate models on which 
> most predictions have been made.
> 
> The news just today,  is that the Univ. of Alaska / Fairbanks has 
> released a study indicating that this release of methane has begun. For 
> detailed information / discussion, one could read Joe Romm's Climate 
> Progress.  I will write my own take at California Greening.  The tone of 
> many is not hopeful and it appears that we will surely blow well past 
> the levels (350 ppm) that many used as a target.
> 
> As we evaluate the performance of our candidates, we should pay a lot of 
> attention to the fact that both of the major Republicans, Whitman and 
> Poizner, would postpone implementation of the one thing that CA is doing 
> about climate change (AB 32).  It is also clear that Jerry Brown will 
> read the polls before he says much.  Republican Assemblyman Dan Logue is 
> heading a well funded (oil co?) initiative effort to suspend AB 32 
> http://www.suspendab32.org/
> 
> The world can't wait. Greens must speak out.
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