Co-authored by Miranda Brown, Intern with the KY Beyond Coal Campaign and Lauren McGrath, KY Beyond Coal Campaign Staff
On Tuesday, September 29th, the Sierra Club’s Big Picture Campaign is holding a “Coal is Dirty Business” Day of Action to demonstrate that citizens across the country are eager for the United States government to take a stand against big coal for the sake of the waterways, air, health, and pocketbooks of America. Organizers across the nation are preparing for local rallies and other events on this day.
The people have got it—that dirty coal has got to go, that we can’t keep polluting with this inherently dirty, carbon-rich fuel. President Obama and the U.S. Congress have promised to quickly take care of climate change and other environmental problems. The Senate is poised to debate the climate bill. The Environmental Protection Agency recently made a bold move by upholding the Clean Water Act in their review of 79 mountaintop removal mining permits. During this time its critical that citizens show public support for EPA enforcement of the Clean Water Act and pressure the Administration and Congress towards further responsible action to halt our dependence on coal. That’s why on September 29th thousands of citizens across the U.S. will urge the politicians and agencies to make a clean break from dirty business with the coal industry.
In day to day life, more and more are seeing the effects—asthma rates increasing, water quality deteriorating, mercury levels in fish increasing, mountain communities are being devastated, and metals from coal ash threaten to contaminate municipal water supplies
In Kentucky, some residents are even starting get worried about their local soft drink and Kentucky trademark, Ale-8, seeing as the lone bottling company lies only a few miles downstream from the location of a proposed coal-burning power plant and coal ash storage facility. According to a comprehensive but little known risk assessment released by the EPA in 2007, nearby residents have as much as a 1 in 50 chance of getting cancer from drinking water contaminated by arsenic, one of the most common, and most dangerous, pollutants found in coal ash.
That’s why as part of the “Coal is Dirty Business” National Day of Action, residents of Lexington, Kentucky, will gather to celebrate this local favorite and take action at the “Don’t Contaminate Our Ale 8″ event to ensure this Kentuckian trademark is not contamination by hazardous coal ash from the proposed plant.
Other local events around the U.S. are listed, here.
Good News:
I’m predicting (with better accuracy I promise than climate predicting), that within the next 6 months or so, the MET, NASA and the IPCC will follow the NOAA’s lead in indicating that the CO2 theory is wrong. While the NOAA still officially supports the theory, it does not attempt to hide their data showing cooling over the last decade and more in North America.
What will you warmies do then, be disappointed or obedient? You didn’t think this climate phobia would last for another quarter of a century did you?
Get ahead of the curve. The world is not coming to an early end for us. Try UFO’s and BigFoot again.
Almost 24 years into the prediction of doom and still lots of panic but no crisis yet. Therefore resulting cooling disproves predicted warming. Be happy at least.
Virtually all of the money spent on research is on predicted effects, not causes. Global doomers justify the existence AGWing by rationalizing it to “who is saying it” and not “what is being said”. This avoids real debate of this 23 year old CO2 theory making it a faith based self fulfilling prophecy. Is AGW another WMD? Scientists? Don’t sanctify a profession that apparently polluted our planet with their evil chemicals in the first place. Global warming looks as silly as Carl Sagon predicting a nuclear winter from the first gulf war oil fires. So after 23 years of waiting for this crisis to arrive, a scientist seems about as credible as a lap dancer. Let’s call Kyoto, Y2Kyoto?
Notice how the waterhole of facts we all drink from, the Internet, is just an open sewer of untreated information. Pick an opinion. Pick a winner every time. Truth becomes a foggy haze in this science fiction before us called climate change. History will call it witch burning.
Melting ice doesn’t prove what caused it so by taking a snapshot in time and ignoring the history of the earth, these global doomers can then make a grim case for the early demise of the planet and even fool themselves into believing it in the process. Then it’s off to scare the kids by denying them futures: “We have to save the planet kids!”
The UN has allowed Carbon Trading to trump 3rd world education, clean water and starvation rescue.
IPCC “90% sure”
IPCC Endorse the unscientific “precaution” policy.
IPCC Endorse the “correlation” policy.
IPCC Failed predictions for 23 years.
IPCC Endorse that La Nina “delayed” global warming.
IPCC Endorse the “It’s too late now” policy. (Too late? Why can’t we stop something we apparently started?)
Come on you waskly radicals and rebels and activists and Liberals and Conservatives alike and let 23 years of predictions put our minds at ease so we can finally end the world’s longest emergency. Preserve, protect and respect our world, not save it from a mistake with mass hysteria more suitable for Dark Age mentality.
@MemeMine:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/24/AR2009092402602.html
The anthropogenic CO2-driven climate change we are seeing actually stands out against the background of a millenia-scale cooling trend toward another ice age:
(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/science/earth/04arctic.html).
Meanwhile, via a diverse array of mistakes humans have wrecked the ecological conditions under which civilization developed. It remains to be seen if we will be clever enough to adapt.