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YES, the TYPE of emergency is new - i.e., the fact that PERMANENT villages are having to be moved to higher ground.<br><br>What you refuse to acknowledge is the fact that these people have a VERY, very long history of moving from one place to another. THEY ARE/WERE A MIGRATORY PEOPLE. It wasn't until they were made to stay put that others see/saw "emergencies" such as what you are reporting. <br><br>In all due respect for Sen. Ted (a personal family friend) the quote and whole of his missive had to do more with the expenditure of monies and the moving of a whole fixed-structure-village that is new...not the fact that the natives have to move.<br><br>It would be nice if you would do more than look at the end of your nose to see the effects of things. Again, I am not denying that people affect their surrounding area; all I'm saying and what Ted said is that a great deal of what is happening now has been building for 100's of years and will always be an issue - we just panic where other animals adapt.<br><br>J :]<br><br><br><blockquote><hr>Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:20:20 -0700<br>From: starbliss@gmail.com<br>To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Subject: [Vision2020] Followup: Alaska Senator Ted Stevens In Anchorage Daily News<br><br><div>All-</div>
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<div>Only posting a short segment, with quotes from Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, from the recent Anchorage Daily News article, might clarify what the article is about, in terms of whether this is a new problem or not. As I have posted before about the Green Revolution, it is only a matter of time before it arrives; and Republicans such as Ted Stevens taking a public stand like this is part of this revolution:
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<div>Anchorage Daily News</div>
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<div>Published: October 22, 2007<br>Last Modified: October 22, 2007 at 02:37 AM<br> </div>
<div>Text below exactly as in the article:</div>
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<div>By BETH BRAGG </div>
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<div><a href="http://www.adn.com/contact/bbragg/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.adn.com/contact/bbragg/index.html</a></div>
<div><br><a href="http://mailman.fsr.com/mailman/listinfo/vision2020" target="_blank">bbragg at adn.com</a><br> </div>
<div>A NEW KIND OF EMERGENCY<br><br>Newtok, Shishmaref, and Kivalina are the canaries in the mine that is global warming, which is eating river banks, thawing permafrost and delaying the annual formation of shore-fast ice that protects coastal towns from fall sea
<br>storms.<br><br>Even Stevens, once a skeptic of global warming and man's role in hastening it, talks about the effects of "global climate change." Long a champion of the oil industry that supports Alaska's economy, he has in recent months pushed for fuel-efficient American-made cars and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
<br><br>"I think there is a contribution of mankind to the warming cycle," he told Channel 2 news this summer, although he also said he believes the warming trend is part of a natural cycle hundreds of years in the making.
<br><br>Stevens harbors no doubt, though, that many Alaska villages face impending disaster.<br><br>"This is a new type of emergency," he said at the Senate hearing. "We get it first, but it's coming everywhere."
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<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<br> </div>
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