[Vision2020] Weather advisory

[Ted Moffett]

Consider this radar image regarding the impending storms:

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=otx&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no

Odds are, nothing significant will hit Moscow, and the major impacts will
only hit a very small segment of the area this radar image covers; but
National Weather Service must issue a warning, as they should.

But I can't help but wonder, given Dan Carscallen trusts NOAA enough to
think these local weather warnings are reliable, has he now changed his mind
on anthropogenic global warming, given NOAA also issues "warnings" on this
threat?  Or does Carscallen continue to adopt the skeptics view of
anthropogenic climate change?  I have not forgotten Mr. Carscallen's
dismissal of the science behind the problem of anthropogenic global
warming.  I can reference the Vision2020 posts authored by
Carscallen expressing this dismissal...

Also, I can't help but wonder, how could the Moscow City Council, of which
Mr. Carscallen is a member, enter into a legal agreement to sell water
across state lines, without a thorough understanding of the legal
complexities involved?  At this date, about six months after the Moscow City
Council agreement to sell water across state lines to the Hawkins
development in Whitman County, according to a recent article in the
Moscow/Pullman Daily news, the legal issues are still in doubt...

I am well aware I am posting on two issues that may seem unrelated.
But they both relate to Dan Carscallen's views on environmental issues,
anthropogenic climate change (an issue everyone on this planet should be
working to address with local action), and local water resources; the wise
or unwise allocation of this precious resource.

Most politicians are not climate scientists or lawyers who specialist in
water resource law...

Plato might have been correct, that Democracy is flawed, that society should
be run by committees of experts, who really know what they are talking
about, rather than by politicians with questionable expertise, elected by a
public of questionable wisdom... Or do I misunderstand Plato's "Republic?"

Probably...

Ted Moffett

On 8/18/08, Dan Carscallen <areaman at moscow.com> wrote:
>
> Vizzz peeps, this just came over the wire.  Thought I'd share.
>
> Batten down the hatches!
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> BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
> SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 839
> NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
> 405 PM PDT MON AUG 18 2008
>
> SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 839 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM PDT
> FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
> ID
> IDAHO COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE
>
> BENEWAH BONNER BOUNDARY
> KOOTENAI LATAH LEWIS
> NEZ PERCE
> ATTN..WFO...OTX...PDT...
>
>
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