George, yes the dissonance is unnerving. And besides our NYS fracking fight, the nations ringing the Arctic circle are jostling each other in the haste to mine and drill and spew all the newly available carbon up there as well.
It seems doubtful we can get policy passed to protect our futures so long as money buys elections. So how to turn off the money? Stop buying fossil fuels. Make it unprofitable. Of course, even that course is undermined so long as the investor shell game keeps going.... and the sheer momentum of unquestioning greed and shortsightedness. It often seems that the cure for all this is an awakened populace. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:36 AM, george adams <[email protected] > wrote: > A draft of the third national climate assessment is available via: > http://ncadac.globalchange.gov/ > > > Here are just a few of its findings, written and peer reviewed by hundreds > of scientists and even business representatives, as summarized at > domesticfuel.com: > >> Several key findings include new and stronger evidence that global >> climate is changing, extreme weather and climate events are increasing, and >> that the increase is related to human activities. In addition, the report >> finds: >> >> - Global climate is changing, and this is apparent across the US in a >> wide range of observations. The climate change of the past 50 years is due >> primarily to human activities, predominantly the burning of fossil fuels >> and is expected to accelerate if action is not taken. >> >> >> - Some extreme weather and climate events have increased in recent >> decades, and there is new and stronger evidence that many of these >> increases are related to human activities. >> >> >> - Impacts related to climate change are already evident in many >> sectors and are expected to become increasingly challenging across the >> nation throughout this century and beyond. >> >> These are not minced words. We are well on our way to ruin if these > projections of continued carbon spewing are credible. And yet, on other > web sites, on other pages of the same news papers, read about government > ready to bless, investors salivating and drillers gearing up to rip more > fossil carbon from beneath the hills and lakes of upstate NY. It is as if > I had views into two very different worlds. But it is one world and I > live in it. > > George Adams > > > -- ---------------------------------------------------- Gay Nicholson, Ph.D. President Sustainable Tompkins 109 S. Albany St. Ithaca, NY 14850 www.sustainabletompkins.org 607-533-7312 (home office) 607-220-8991 (cell) 607-216-1552 (ST office) 607-216-1553 (ST fax) [email protected] For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ If you have questions about this list please contact the list manager, Tom Shelley, at [email protected].
