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I LOVE the quotes from you, Wes. You really lay it on the line for them!<div><br></div><div>Apologies if your links have the answer to this but I am limited in time and frequency to log on. </div><div>WHAT is the Green Party doing for 350 Day, the International Day of Climate Action??? (see 350.org) This is a worldwide global action by all persons and groups interested in making a strong statement about the need to drop carbon emissions to 350, a loooong way to go. What were the levels in 1990? </div><div><br></div><div>Since I have been hearing about pollution levels from my PreMed days at San Jose State University in the 1950s, I am easily MORE inclined to believe the increase of 6.3 F degrees. I think we Homo saps are close to being totally f**cked already due to our arrogance and ignorance. </div><div><br></div><div>Yeah, we really should leave this planet and go into space to start over on a new world; we'll probably know how to do it all better there. (I wonder if "they're" watching?)</div><div>Andrea</div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 7, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Wes Rolley wrote:</div><div><br></div><clip><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gp.org">http://www.gp.org</a>
For Immediate Release:
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mclarty@greens.org">mclarty@greens.org</a>
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:starlene@gp.org">starlene@gp.org</a>
Greens, calling the Kerry-Boxer Senate bill on climate change an
"armful of retreats and compromises," seek more immediate
international action to curb global warming
• Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on the
climate crisis, energy policy, and transportation
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-ecological.php">http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-ecological.php</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-energy.php">http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-energy.php</a>
WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders criticized the Kerry-Boxer draft
"cap and trade" climate change bill in the US Senate, calling it
dangerously inadequate as evidence mounts that global warming is
advancing more rapidly than scientists believed a few years ago.
"While Democrats are calling the Kerry-Boxer bill ambitious and
far-reaching, the proposed legislation doesn't come close to what we
need to do now to halt the destruction of our future," said Wes
Rolley, co-chair of the Green Party's EcoAction Committee. "When
President Obama goes to the UN Climate Change Summit, he needs to show
up with real solutions to cut CO2 emissions and lower energy
consumption, not with an armful of Kerry-Boxer retreats and
compromises."
A recent UN report warned that the earth is likely to heat up more
than 2 degrees Celsius, which could lead to a global catastrophe
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.unep.org/compendium2009/PDF/Compendium2009_fullreport.pdf">http://www.unep.org/compendium2009/PDF/Compendium2009_fullreport.pdf</a>),
while the UN Environment Program recently forecast a rise in
temperature as high as 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the century's end
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/24/AR2009092402602.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/24/AR2009092402602.html</a>).
The 2009 UN Climate Change Summit will take place December 7 to 18 in
Copenhagen (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.cop15.dk">http://en.cop15.dk</a>).
"The White House and Congress have the opportunity to lead the world
in an immediate, intense, and concerted effort to prevent global
warming and future wars over dwindling fresh water and other
resources. Unfortunately, they're retreating from the most important
measures required in such an effort. They're doing so out of
deference to corporate lobbies," said Mr. Rolley.
Greens said that the bill would only cut emissions by 7% below 1990
levels by 2020, contrary to a recommendation from the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that developed countries,
including the US, must reduce emissions by 25%, i.e., by 40% below
1990 levels, by 2020.
Greens also warned that the bill would subsidize costly, dangerous,
and false alternative energy sources. Nuclear power is a proven
security risk and threat to the environment. Carbon capture creates a
new kind of pollution through the disposal of carbon 'washed' from
coal and allows coal companies to continue destroying and poisoning
landscapes in states like West Virginia through mountaintop removal.
</pre></blockquote><clip><br><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">MORE INFORMATION
Green Party of the United States <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gp.org">http://www.gp.org</a>
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
• Green candidate database and campaign information:
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• Green Party News Center <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml">http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml</a>
• Green Party Speakers Bureau <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gp.org/speakers">http://www.gp.org/speakers</a>
• Green Party ballot access page <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gp.org/2008-elections">http://www.gp.org/2008-elections</a>
• Green Party Livestream Channel <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus">http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus</a>
"Greens: Obama and Congress are wrong on 'clean coal', nuclear energy,
and emissions trading"
Green Party press release, May 20, 2009
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=214">http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=214</a>
"Time for Plan B: Cutting Carbon Emissions 80 Percent by 2020"
By Lester R. Brown et al., Earth Policy Institute
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.earth-policy.org/datacenter/pdf/80by2020notes.pdf">http://www.earth-policy.org/datacenter/pdf/80by2020notes.pdf</a>
Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of
the United States
Summer 2009 issue now online
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gp.org/greenpages-blog">http://gp.org/greenpages-blog</a>
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