[GPSCC-chat] Fwd: President Obama steps to the plate

[Gerry Gras]

I am sorry to hear the coverage was so poor.
I wonder why KPFA did not do better.

A tweet from Bernie Sanders:

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  Bernie Sanders        ✔ @SenSanders

No one who is serious about reversing global warming could support the 
#KeystoneXL pipeline. #NoKXL #ForwardOnClimate
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Gerry


John Thielking wrote:
> The news coverage of Obama's speech on climate change was disgraceful.
> Not even kpfa.org had full coverage of his speech. CNN had a snippet on
> their news channel and claimed that the whole speech was being broadcast
> on cnn.com/live. But going to that site I saw nothing at all, not even
> the George Zimmerman trial, which CNN devoted most of their cable
> broadcast to.  I'm not a big fan of Obama and I think that his speech
> would be mostly a "do as I say and not as I do" type of thing, but it at
> least deserves to be heard by as wide an audience as possible. I suppose
> it will be posted to the whitehouse.gov web site later. Oh well....
>
> John Thielking
>
>
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> *From:* Gerry Gras <gerrygras at earthlink.net>
> *To:* GPSCC <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>
> *Sent:* Monday, June 24, 2013 1:48 PM
> *Subject:* [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: President Obama steps to the plate
>
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:     President Obama steps to the plate
> Date:     Mon, 24 Jun 2013 20:38:33 +0000
> From:     Bill McKibben - 350.org <organizers at 350.org
> <mailto:organizers at 350.org>>
> Reply-To: organizers at 350.org <mailto:organizers at 350.org>
> To:     Gerald Gras <gerrygras at earthlink.net
> <mailto:gerrygras at earthlink.net>>
>
>
>
> Friends,
>
> Well, some good news: five years in, we're starting to see at least the
> outlines of a strategy from President Obama to deal with climate change.
>
> He's clearly heard the clamor that you have raised, and Tuesday at 1:35
> PM EDT, he will make a speech in DC laying out his plans.
>
> *We hope you'll join in watching it -- there will be a 350.org virtual
> watch party, hosted on our site, where you can watch and see analysis as
> it happens via our Twitter account.* For those of you who use twitter,
> tweet in with the hashtag #ForwardOnClimate to be a part of the
> conversation on our site. If you can bring together friends or even some
> coworkers around for a quick break to watch with us, that would be
> excellent too.
>
> *To join the watch party, just click here when the time comes:
> act.350.org/thanks/watch-party-obama-climate-speech/
> <http://act.350.org/go/3352?t=1&akid=3281.8388.T_AP3U>*
>
> *If you'd like a reminder to tune in, just click this link and we'll
> send you an email a little bit before the speech tomorrow:
> act.350.org/sign/obama-watch-party-reminder/
> <http://act.350.org/go/3353?t=2&akid=3281.8388.T_AP3U>*
>
> *As for the speech itself, here's what I'm hoping for: tough action on
> emissions from coal-fired power plants.* Local activists and groups like
> the Sierra Club have done a great job in facing down the expansion plans
> of the coal industry in recent years, blocking dozens of proposed coal
> plants. The industry is weakened enough that the administration may be
> willing to challenge it more directly with regulations on existing power
> plants -- and this would be indeed be an important step forward.
>
> *And here's what I'm not expecting: anything at all about the Keystone
> XL pipeline.* That is still wending its way through a twisted
> bureaucratic process. But if I was being optimistic, I'd say tomorrow's
> speech makes eventual victory more likely: the President is above all a
> logical man, and kicking off a climate action plan only to approve a tar
> sands pipeline is like saying you're ready to quit smoking then buying a
> carton of Marlboros.
>
> At any rate, we'll do all that we can think of to keep up the pressure.
> If this were a race, you can think of this speech as the starter's
> pistol, after a long slog to get the runners all lined up. There is
> still a race yet to run.
>
> Your hard work made this possible. Given the siege of extreme weather we
> now see daily around the planet, it's one of many steps we need to take.
> But it is in the right direction, and that’s good news.
>
> Bill McKibben
>
> PS -- Since this seems to be an important moment, please share this
> photo with your Facebook friends to let them know that this is all
> happening tomorrow:
>
> Click here to share this image
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