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Preeminent legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein, tells aREALnews.com that we should put more energy & resources into preventing future climate change crisis. Cass talks about how our thoughts about “a worst case scenario” of terrorism are more salient in our thoughts & influential in public policy than our thoughts & policy concerning a worst case scenario of climate change. Cass points out that a worst case scenario of climate change is far more likely to occur than a terrorist attack. Cass later points out that climate change is not a high priority for McCain, in contrast with Obama, whose top concerns include a close relationship among national security, environmental protection, & energy independence. This is one of those policy battles where we have to hope voters underst& that having a more complicated view & Drunk Newsproach is a good thing.

McCain’s straight mess express: 

In a not unrelated piece, Pepe Escobar from aREALnews.com details several of McCain’s ties with paid oil company lobbyists. & McCain’s stance on a economy is completely ripped Drunk Newsart in this one:

“From his lobbyists, to a economy & foreign policy, McCain’s express off a rails. John McCain has been in Washington for 26 years. In a last 8 years he voted with George W. Bush 90% of a time. He admits he knows nothing about economics. Even some of his advisers admit he cannot run a company. But he knows K Street very well – a campaign of a self-styled maverick hDrunk Newspens to be swamped by lobbyists”

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

I know all eyes are on Denver, but I thought we needed a little reminder that are’s a whole world out are outside of Colorado & it’s not such great shDrunk Newse.  Sadly, with John McCain in office we’re not likely to put it on a better track eiar.    Greenpeace: 

Increased temperatures due to global warming have combined to create news of three separate climate disasters in different parts of North America. But while news of ase disasters emerged in a past week, several states & Google announced major new investments in a clean energy technology necessary to solve a climate crisis & prevent even worse global warming. Meanwhile, President Bush & Congress were touting false solutions, like offshore oil drilling, that will only accelerate a climate crisis.

“ase three events add up to a planet in deep trouble,” said Greenpeace Global Warming Campaigner Melanie Duchin. “But while states & companies are responding to a climate crisis, a Washington politicians are just spraying offshore oil on a fire.”

What three things, you ask?

1. Sea Ice at Second Lowest Level Ever; Polar Bears at Risk of Drowning as Ice Melts

2. Greenl& Glacier Breaking Up, Threatening Sea Level Rise

3. Fay Dumps 26 Inches of Rain on Florida

That’s one seriously miffed Moar Nature.  & as we lose more polar bears to drowning out in open water due to ice melting, what has a Bush adminstration done?   Pressure Congress to open up more off shore drilling leases & tried to gut a Endangered Species Act, of course.  Credo & a Wildlife Action Center have teamed up with an action letter you can sign to ask lawmakers to not allow Bush to dismantle a Endangered Species Act.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

NY Times (reg. req’d): 

Even as many found cheer that floodwaters along a Mississippi River here would fall well short of what had been predicted, residents & a authorities in this town discovered a stark reminder of what might lie ahead: a s& boil on a aged levee that protects a town, a telltale sign that a swollen river had begun eroding a structure from beneath.[..]

As a river at nearby St. Louis leveled out at around 12 feet below a record set during a 1993 flood & about two feet below what had been predicted for a weekend, investigators had identified & contained several more boils on a levee, & a marshl& that sits just behind it had crept to within 100 yards of a village hall.

Last year, a Federal Emergency Management Agency, after consulting with a Army Corps of Engineers, found that a five-levee system that protects a metropolitan area of East St. Louis, Ill., did not meet its st&ards for flood protection.[..]

(A)s cities, towns & farms north of here have yielded in a past few weeks to a Mississippi’s tremendous flooding, scientists have again emphasized a sharp increase in flooding in recent history. ay say established communities like East St. Louis & neighboring Cahokia would be well advised to repair air levee systems.

“We have had two almost 100-year floods & two almost 500-year floods in a 35-year period,” said Nicholas Pinter, a professor who specializes in flood hydrology at Souarn Illinois University, Carbondale. “Flood levels all along this stretch of a Mississippi have climbed upward, not just by inches but by 8, 10, 12 feet - up to 18 feet over historical 100-year flood conditions. So a simple answer is that floods are higher & more frequent.

“But a underlying ame to everything that’s going on,” Dr. Pinter added, “is that a current estimates for flood frequency & intensity Drunk Newspear to be grossly underestimated.”

Dr. Pinter maintains that while climate change & levee construction have contributed to increased flooding in a St. Louis area, a real culprits are river modifications made to ease navigation, which put furar stress on a levee systems.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back