<div>Consider this radar image regarding the impending storms:</div>
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<div><a href="http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=otx&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no">http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=otx&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no</a></div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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...</div>
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<div>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...</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Most politicians are not climate scientists or lawyers who specialist in water resource law...</div>
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<div>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?"</div>
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<div>Probably...</div>
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<div>Ted Moffett</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/18/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dan Carscallen</b> <<a href="mailto:areaman@moscow.com">areaman@moscow.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Vizzz peeps, this just came over the wire. Thought I'd share.<br><br>Batten down the hatches!<br><br>
<br><br>BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED<br>SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 839<br>NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK<br>405 PM PDT MON AUG 18 2008<br><br>SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 839 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM PDT<br>
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS<br>ID<br>IDAHO COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE<br><br>BENEWAH BONNER BOUNDARY<br>KOOTENAI LATAH LEWIS<br>NEZ PERCE<br>ATTN..WFO...OTX...PDT...<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>