Community | August 20, 2011 | 1 comment

Opinions: A watershed moment for Obama on climate change

source: http://tinyurl.com/4yhgpbj

The issue is simple: We want the president to block construction of Keystone XL, a pipeline that would carry oil from the tar sands of northern Alberta down to the Gulf of Mexico. We have, not surprisingly, concerns about potential spills and environmental degradation from construction of the pipeline. But those tar sands are also the second-largest pool of carbon in the atmosphere, behind only the oil fields of Saudi Arabia. If we tap into them in a big way, NASA climatologist James Hansen explained in a paper issued this summer, the emissions would mean it’s “essentially game over” for the climate. That’s why the executive directors of many environmental groups and 20 of the country’s leading climate scientists wrote letters asking people to head to Washington for the demonstrations. In scientific terms, it’s as close to a no-brainer as you can get.

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  • LOrion
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      LOrion  

    • Here from DIGG: English and Spanish.
      Today Let Us Make a stand against Global Warming. I denounce the Obama Administration for failing to our mother earth and nature here and now. We are responsible for the damage to the African Horne drought ad famine. We are responsible for the global warming and for placing creatures needs under profit and global corporations and banking systems.
      Hagamos hoy una demanda en contra del Calentamiento Global. Yo denuncio la administración de Obama por su fracazo en la respuesta a las demandas de nuestra madre tierra y su curso natural ahora. Somos respónsables por el daño hecho al Cuerno de Africa. Somos responsables por el calentamiento global y por colocar las creaturas por debajo de las ganancias de las corporaciones globales y los sistemas bancarios.

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