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Teresa Foster of Longmont writes:

I wonder how many people noticed the recent news that greenhouse gases have *already reached dangerous levels beyond what was predicated*.
Prominent Australian climate scientist, Tim Flannery, has seen the raw data going into the upcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report soon to be released. Reuters quotes Flannery: /"We thought we’d be at that threshold within about a decade.... We thought we had that much time. But the new data indicates that in about mid-2005 we crossed that threshold.... What the report establishes is that the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is already above the threshold that could potentially cause dangerous climate change."/ So I ask, “why didn’t this make the front page?”
We need to make a united effort to reduce carbon emissions as quickly as possible. This means SAYING NO to the Comanche III coal plant Xcel Energy is building in Pueblo to meet a demand for electricity that ISN’T THERE. This means SAYING NO to ANY new coal plant, anywhere. This means SAYING NO to marketing ploys by Detroit to purchase inefficient vehicles. This means DEMANDING that our Federal Government to step up to the plate.
We need to SAY YES to all forms of renewable energy, plug-in hybrids, buying local, energy efficiency, etc. Need I say more? The Arctic sea ice reached it’s lowest point, ever, this year. What kind of a wake call do you need, people? The temperature of the planet is rising at a rate never seen before. Leslie Glustrom, of Clean Energy Action, makes the point that if we saw the temperature gauge on our vehicle rising this rapidly, we would stop immediately and fix it. So let’s do everything we can to save our planet. It is the only planet we have! There are no lifeboats. We can continue looking the other way by being immersed in our trivial but busy lives, or we can pay attention and do what is right. If we don’t, we will face the inevitable consequence - extinction. Earth will live on - mankind will not.

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READER COMMENTS

***snore***

teresa please do your part for lowering the gases and stop your co2 distruction to the enviornment.
so as far as living a green life how is yours?

Teresa,

If you believe the people telling you this, then you should also believe it when they tell you that there isn't a damned thing we can do about it.

Don't you love these greeners? We have to change our lives while they continue to licve thiers. How about the fact these idiots are about to pollut the earths oceans with granulated rubber. This in an attempt to change the course of hurricanes. What about the damage this will do to the worlds oceans and aquatic life. But hey it just may sacve one of thier over priced homes in the keys or along the gulf coast from being destroyed.

They'll cry until it hits their wallets. Then they'll howl foul until someone else pays for it.

I blame vegetarians. They produce more gas. Eat more vegetarians.

I just farted. Sniffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

Boy, what erudite and insightful responses.
They don’t dispute any fact that Ms.Foster states, they are just against the implications.

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