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<p><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><a
href="file:///C:\Users\shauna\AppData\Roaming\Windows%20Live%20Writer\PostSupportingFiles\2fed0cac-1e6e-433c-81dc-6ef306a1600d\worldonfire%5b2%5d.png"></a>I
admire Jim Roth for attempting to make sense of the confusing array of special
interests lobbying on the complex climate-change bill currently before our
nation's Senate. In an opinion piece in the <a
href="http://www.journalrecord.com/article.cfm?recID=100518">Journal Record</a>
today, Roth provides a rational and much-needed service to Oklahoma by
providing enough facts and context to place this complicated issue in
perspective. Some highlights:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><em><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>Environmental groups initially
united are now somewhat divided after the House version passed. Some
welcomed the bill, while others criticized the generous concessions to
the coal and nuclear energy lobbies.</span></em><span style='font-size:
8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><em><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>One of the nation’s most
outspoken climate scientists, NASA’s James Hansen, warned, </span></em><strong><i><u><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>“The
danger is that special interests will dilute and torque government
policies, causing the climate to pass tipping points, with grave
consequences for all life on the planet.”</span></u></i></strong><em><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'> </span></em><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><em><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>No group exemplifies the level
of interest more than the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity
[a front-group with an oxymoron for a name]. Representing 48 mining
firms, coal-hauling railroads and coal-burning power companies, </span></em><strong><i><u><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>ACCCE
spent $9.95 million lobbying in 2008</span></u></i></strong><em><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>. </span></em><strong><i><u><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>And
that’s just the amount disclosed by the association, let alone the
40 coal companies and related interests</span></u></i></strong><em><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>. </span></em><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><em><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>Electricity is largest single
source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the most carbon-intensive
fuel, coal, still provides half the nation’s power. </span></em><strong><i><u><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>There’s
no technology today that removes the carbon out of coal-fired power and
many even question the possibility of “clean coal</span></u></i></strong><em><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>.”</span></em><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><em><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>Green groups like the Sierra
Club have been joined by a new wave of interests from the American
Academy of Pediatrics to the Evangelical Environmental Network. </span></em><strong><i><u><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>Combine
alternative energy and environmental/health lobbyists, and they are still
outnumbered by all other interests, more than 8-to-1.</span></u></i></strong><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1'><em><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>Do we move forward with this
legislation, even if imperfect, and try to improve it as it goes along in
the Senate? </span></em><strong><i><u><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>The alternative choice is to
have no comprehensive federal legislation and let our children deal with
it.</span></u></i></strong><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<p><strong><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>Note:</span></strong><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'> Ninety-nine
percent (99%) of the world's scientists say human-caused climate change is
happening now. Many are concerned we'll experience catastrophic consequences if
we don't address the problem immediately. One of the world's preeminent
climatologists, James Hansen, mentioned above by Roth, has long predicted the
changes we're seeing now, and has been correct in 100 percent of his
predictions. <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/">The New Yorker</a> published
an in-depth profile on Hansen in their June 29, 2009 issue, available online to
subscribers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>"The
Catastrophist," by Elizabeth Kolbert, offers details on Hansen's
predictions, his background and his concern that we are past the tipping point
for what is known in scientific circles as "dangerous anthropogenic
interference" a.k.a D.A.I. From the article:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><em><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>Hansen
has now concluded, partly on the basis of his latest modelling efforts and
partly on the basis of observations made by other scientists, that the threat
of global warming is far greater than even he had suspected. Carbon dioxide
isn't just approaching dangerous levels, it is already there. Unless immediate
action is taken -- including the shutdown of all the world's coal plants within
the next two decades -- the planet will be committed to change on a scale
society won't be able to cope with.'This particular problem has become an
emergency,' Hansen said.<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://thinklady.typepad.com/thinklady/">http://thinklady.typepad.com/thinklady/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Malgun Gothic","sans-serif";
color:black'>Shauna, OKC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>Imagine, innovate,
create, collaborate<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#913200'><a
href="http://www.sustainableokc.org"><span style='line-height:150%;color:#913200;
text-decoration:none'>www.sustainableokc.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#913200'><a
href="http://www.transitiontownokc.com"><span style='line-height:150%;
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#913200'><a
href="http://www.goinglocalokc.com"><span style='line-height:150%;color:#913200;
text-decoration:none'>www.goinglocalokc.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#913200'><a
href="http://thinklady.typepad.com%20/"><span style='line-height:150%;
color:#913200;text-decoration:none'>http://thinklady.typepad.com /</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#913200'><a
href="http://freshgreens.typepad.com/"><span style='line-height:150%;
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color:green'>P</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:green'>please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to</span><span
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