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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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Cap and Trade Bill Heats Up
On June 2nd, the Senate in Washington will debate the Warner Lieberman bill to cap greenhouse gas emissions. A vote may occur a week after. Later the bill will be voted on by the House of Representatives. |
Climate Protection Events
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June 1st, Sunday, 1:15pm Monthly meeting of Houston Climate Protection Alliance at 5200 Fannin at Southmore in the Museum District. Join us for reports on methane releases in melting perma-frost could cause abrubt climate change, and reports on local action. One is the City of Houston project to help families reduce their energy use and thus protect the climate. Would your church or civic group like to form an energy saving team? It's good for us and for our climate. Texas Sierra Club is helping folks form teams to ask cities to join the local government association for energy saving, www.Iclei-usa.org They will host several meetings in the Houston area over the next month.
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June 1-4, Windpower 2008, national annual conference
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June 6, Energy Caucus at the State Democratic Convention. To help, contact John Preston, johnwmp(at)hal-pc.org or 713-659-6444
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June 12 11 am conference call with Sarah Weingarden, new program director for ICLEI-USA.org in Texas. She is working at Houston's City Hall and will answer our questions about ICLEI. To join the call, dial 1-605-475-6111 and then enter our pass code for guest speaker calls, 7138426643#
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