[GPSCC-chat] Plenary

[Edward]

Most people forget (or worse, don't even know) that CO2 is only responsible for half our GHG emissions. Methane and aerosols account for the other half.
In the event that we are already past the tipping point as the recent UA Fairbanks study may suggest, what does our platform say about minimizing the harm of climate destabilization?
-edward

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Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:59:29 -0800
From: Gerry Gras <gerrygras at earthlink.net>
To: Wes Rolley <wrolley at charter.net>
Cc: Green Discuss <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>,    Cres Vellucci
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Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Plenary
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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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