<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>I drive a Hyundai. So I drown polar bears more slowly than you others. I pollute and destroy the environment more responsibly! Did you know you can save a tree by using both sides of the toilet paper? :P</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Sat, 8/28/10, Paul <SPAN>Rumelhart</SPAN> <I><godshatter@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Paul <SPAN>Rumelhart</SPAN> <godshatter@yahoo.com><BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] U of I Argonaut 8/27/2010 "Halfway There: City Council takes more steps to lower greenhouse gas emissions"<BR>To: "Ted Moffett" <starbliss@gmail.com><BR>Cc: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com>, "Nancy Chaney" <nchaney@ci.moscow.id.us><BR>Date: Saturday, August 28, 2010, 10:49 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail><BR>Well, good for you. It's nice to see that my concerns were roundly ignored.<BR><BR>We could meet in the middle, if anyone wanted to work in that <BR>direction. By stressing conservation, energy efficiency, energy <BR>self-reliance, reductions in pollution, and the cutting of costs for <BR>example. All good ideas that would be beneficial today to all of us.<BR><BR>Don't try to frighten me into using less energy with visions of drowning <BR>polar bears.<BR><BR>Paul<BR><BR>Ted Moffett wrote:<BR>> I trust there is no faux pas in indicating on Vision2020 that Mayor <BR>> Nancy Chaney responded "Off List" intelligently and warmly to my <BR>> rather strongly worded post on the Argonaut article "Halfway There."<BR>> <BR>> Thanks!<BR>><BR>> On 8/27/10, *Ted Moffett* <<A href="http://us.mc381.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=starbliss@gmail.com"
ymailto="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">starbliss@gmail.com</A> <BR>> <mailto:<A href="http://us.mc381.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=starbliss@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">starbliss@gmail.com</A>>> wrote:<BR>><BR>> I'm happy something is being done to lower greenhouse gas<BR>> emissions in Moscow. This is a far better attitude than expressed<BR>> by some anthropogenic climate warming denialists, who argue there<BR>> is no substantial scientific reason to lower emissions.<BR>> <BR>> The "Halfway There" part of the headline means there has been<BR>> close to a 12 percent reduction in emissions from a 2005 baseline,<BR>> on the way to 20 percent by 2020.<BR>> <BR>>
The headline might have read ""Not all the way there..." as in a<BR>> paucity of brain function and/or research, an absence of the most<BR>> cursory discussion of what the best climate science indicates is a<BR>> percent reduction in emissions necessary to substantially address<BR>> anthropogenic climate warming.<BR>> <BR>> Total historical CO2 emissions must be considered, given CO2<BR>> atmospheric lifespan (read "Storms of My Grandchildren" by NASA<BR>> climate scientist James Hansen:(<BR>> <A href="http://www.stormsofmygrandchildren.com/" target=_blank>http://www.stormsofmygrandchildren.com/</A> ); therefore a 20 percent<BR>> global emissions reduction from a 2005
baseline will not prevent a<BR>> high probability of radical climate change. CO2 would still<BR>> increase in level in our atmosphere, absent extreme changes in<BR>> other variables, given a 20 percent reduction from a 2005 level is<BR>> still above the emission rates from previous decades when CO2 was<BR>> increasing in atmospheric level. Some of the CO2 molecules my<BR>> family and I were adding to the atmosphere in the 1950s when<BR>> gasoline was 28 cents a gallon and we crossed the US numerous<BR>> times in our gas hog Ford, are still in the atmosphere,<BR>> contributing to climate change.<BR>> <BR>> Read about the "Earth Policy Institute" *80 by
2020* plan, where<BR>> they discuss "worldwide mobilization at wartime speed" to achieve<BR>> 80 percent global reductions in emissions by 2020:<BR>> <BR>> <A href="http://www.earth-policy.org/datacenter/pdf/80by2020notes.pdf" target=_blank>http://www.earth-policy.org/datacenter/pdf/80by2020notes.pdf</A><BR>> -----------------------<BR>> <A href="http://www.uiargonaut.com/content/view/10557/48:testset/" target=_blank>http://www.uiargonaut.com/content/view/10557/48:testset/</A><BR>> <BR>> Halfway There<BR>> Written by Kristen Whitney - Argonaut <BR>> Friday, 27 August 2010<BR>> *City Council takes more steps to lower greenhouse gas
emissions*<BR>><BR>><BR>> Jake Barber/Argonaut<BR>> Moscow City Council is encouraging residents of Moscow to find<BR>> ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, such as riding a bike<BR>> instead of driving, and remembering to turn off lights to conserve<BR>> electricity.<BR>><BR>> Since the baseline inventory in 2005, Moscow has lowered its green<BR>> house gas emissions by nearly 12 percent, a significant step<BR>> toward the goal of 20 percent by 2020, according to the Greenhouse<BR>> Gas and Energy Efficiency Report.<BR>><BR>> “We have a measurable baseline and a very rational approach to<BR>> save money in addition to reduce our effect on the
global<BR>> climate,” said Mayor Nancy Chaney. It’s been a long time coming,<BR>> because this was one of the initiatives I undertook when I first<BR>> came into office and I had a number of people kind of cranking on<BR>> my arm saying, ‘Just set the targets.’”<BR>> The Greenhouse Gas & Energy Efficiency Report, published Aug. 2,<BR>> outlines the City Council’s current efforts and future plans for<BR>> lowering greenhouse gas emissions. <BR>><BR>> “I come from a scientific background — my graduate work is<BR>> environmental science ... so I wanted a measureable baseline,”<BR>> Chaney said. <BR>><BR>> Included in the Greenhouse
Gas & Energy Efficiency Report are<BR>> plans to upgrade streetlights to be more efficient.<BR>><BR>> Chaney said each LED retrofitted street light saves the city over<BR>> $1,000 per year. Each upgraded light saves 629 tons of CO2.<BR>><BR>> Future changes to reduce GHG will include more investment in<BR>> public transportation and expansion of pedestrian and bike paths. <BR>> The Hamilton-Lowe Aquatics Center, one of the city’s top producers<BR>> of GHG, may also undergo some changes.<BR>><BR>> “We still have designs on making changes out at the swimming pool<BR>> because that’s one of our big users of natural gas, so conceivably<BR>> there would be some kind of
solar installation — that might be<BR>> panels, or solar tubes. We’ve looked at some kind of treatment<BR>> involving the heat absorption of the asphalt,” Chaney said.<BR>><BR>> Brian Henry, the project coordinator for the sustainability club<BR>> and a graduate student in architecture, said students can do their<BR>> part to help lower GHG.<BR>><BR>> “Ride a bike instead of driving and conserve energy in your dorm<BR>> room or apartment by turning off lights and use compact florescent<BR>> bulbs. Also plug your TV and DVD player into a power strip and<BR>> turn the power strip off when you’re not using the TV because even<BR>> though it says it’s off, it’s still
using power,” Henry said.<BR>><BR>> In addition to these ideas, Mayor Chaney recommended weatherizing<BR>> one’s home, or she said, “If you’re not a property owner, hang<BR>> some heavy window coverings in the winter time to keep the heat in<BR>> and the cold out.”<BR>><BR>> “We want to be efficient in our buildings, because buildings are<BR>> big wasters of energy if they’re not well-insulated — if the<BR>> windows are not adequately sealed” she said.<BR>><BR>> Throughout the nation other cities have made pledges to lower<BR>> their GHG. Since levels were tested in 1990, Los Angles aims to<BR>> lower its GHG 30 percent by 2030. Chicago vowed to lower GHG by
25<BR>> percent by 2020 and Denver pledged 10 percent by 2012. The U.S<BR>> government has undertaken the goal of lowering overall emissions<BR>> 17 percent by 2020, according to the U.S. EPA Website.<BR>> -----------------------------------------<BR>> Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<BR>><BR>><BR>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>><BR>> =======================================================<BR>> List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR>> <A href="http://www.fsr.net/" target=_blank>http://www.fsr.net</A>
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