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ROCKEFELLERS PUSH EXXON MOBIL ON RENEWABLE ENERGY, Houston Chronicle 4/30/08 Members of the Rockefeller family challenged the oil giant focus more on renewable energy. Planetark story
On March 6th, about 160 sq. miles of an ice shelf, about 1200 feet thick, broke off Antarctica. This ice was already floating so this won't make seas go up right away, but it makes it more likely that the rest of the Western Antarctic Ice Shelf (WAIS) will collapse sooner causing 20 to 50 feet of sea level rise.
Video clip of Dynegy Protest 3/20/08 "They need to clean up their act". This Houston company has more new coal plants planned than any other US utility.
Dynegy promises shareholders to report on their plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions by end of 2008.
Drought and Flooding Threaten Houston says Hansen. "it remains possible and not entirely painful" to address global warming. "The most important step ...would be to prohibit the construction of coal-fired power plants until technology is developed to capture carbon dioxide ..."
Texas Panhandle Republican legislators plan "global warming" bill and support wind power and "... the most important bill in the Texas legislature ... dealing with losses after a catastrophic hurricane." Amarillo Globe-News Online . 10/2/07
Disastrous sea level rises possible this century unless we act now. The rise could be up to 80 feet according to the August 25 story on Hansen in Toronto Globe and Mail
Hansen's article concludes that "[I]ce sheets will respond in a non-linear fashion to global warming --- and are already beginning to do so. There is enough information now, in my opinion, to make it a near certainty that business-as-usual [emissions] scenarios will lead to disastrous multi-metre sea level rise on the century time scale." article
The good news is that downtown Houston is 45 feet high making it less vulnerable than Galveston, Texas City, and parts of New York City (5 feet), Dickensen, Mobile, Boston, and Miami (5 - 20 feet), and other coastal ciites.
Living Green, a new Blog on sustainable lifestyles by Houston Chronicle.
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Stop Dynegy from being #1 US coal polluter
Protest May 14, talks May 13th
A first step in climate protection is no NEW investment in dirty energy, like coal. Dynegy, a Houston-based corporation, plans to build six new coal-fired electricity generating plants, more than any other US utility company. The Sandy Creek plant in Riesel east of Waco is one of them. Sierra Club, Public Citizen, and other groups are urging Dynegy to also drop its coal plans and instead focus on developing clean energy. www.CleanUpDynegy.org
Our children’s prosperity depends on a predictable climate and sea level. Disrupting their climate is wrong. We need your help May 14, Protest outside Dynegy shareholders’ meeting, Wednesday, 9am to noon, in Houston, at the Galleria at on 5100 West Alabama, between Post Oak and Sage Road. Contact us for help with transportation and lodging. May 13, 6:45 to 9:30 pm Leo Gold, certified Financial Advisor and host of the New Capital Show on KPFT radio will speak on "Coal Plants - a risky investment for Dynegy" Mark Kresowik, Sierra Club Clean Up Dynegy campaign national director on "Why is Sierra Club picking on Dynegy?" Jacque Batisse, host of the People of the Earth program at KPFT. Yochi Zakai, Co-Op America's Climate Change Program Coordinator speaking on the financial risk of coal plants. After the talks, we'll celebrate with music. - Location: Central Presbyterian Church, in the gym, 3788 Richmond at Timmons near Greenway Plaza and the Summit. For more information, contact Contact Ron Hayden 832-524-6855 rhayden7(at)comcast.net or Mark Kresowik, 319-621-7393 Mark.Kresowik(at)SierraClub.org
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Climate Protection Events
5/8/08 Thurs 11am, Conference Call with Mike Sloan on "Wind Power: a Clean and Viable Energy Option". To join the call, dial 1-605-475-6111 and then enter our pass code for calls open to the public 7138426643#. Your standard long distance charges will apply. Call hosted by Texas Cool Climate Campaign. "Wind power is better for the environment than coal or nuclear", says Mike Sloan, currently President of Virtus Energy, and former managing consultant of the Wind Coalition. "Yes, some birds fly into wind towers and die, but the number is tiny compared to birds who die by flying into buildings, trucks and cars, utility lines, communication towers and other man-made structures." (see US Fish and Wildlife Service factsheet http://www.fws.gov/birds/mortality-fact-sheet.pdf) "It would save Texas money, if we build more transmission lines to West Texas and the Panhandle. We need your support to do this.? http://www.windcoalition.org/PDFs/wind_transmission_analysis.pdf
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May 13, 6:45pm, talks on Dynegy, coal, global warming, their alternatives and then a party. Location Central Presbyterian Church, 3788 Richmond. (see above for more details).
May 14, Wednesday, 9am to 1pm, Protest Dynegy during their shareholders' meeting led by Sierra Club. www.cleanupdynegy.org Location 5100 W. Alabama on the south side of the Galleria. If you can't attend all morning, please join us between 10:30 and 11:30.
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May 15, Sierra Club Cool Cities meeting in Galveston. For more information contact NanHildreth(at)riseup.net 713-842-6643
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May 16, 7:30pm Climate change: Is it overhyped? Andre Droxler, professor in the Department of Earth Studies at Rice University, will talk about past climate changes and the current high levels of carbon dioxide and methane in our atmosphere. Dr. Droxler is a nationally recognized researcher in this area. He has studied past climate fluctuations as they have left their record in marine deposits. Sponsored by Foundation for Contemporary Theology. 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul's United Methodist Church, 5501 S. Main, second floor of the gym. For more information, contact Dick Whanger, 713/723-0858. ************************************************************************
June 1-4, Windpower 2008, national annual conference
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