Policy
•Increased hydroelectric power by increasing capacity of current
hydroelectric dam infrastructure.
•Use our water irrigation canal systems to produce turbine generated electricity.
•Better planning for agriculture to maintain food security.
•Better community planning for housing, sewer, roads, etc. in low lying areas and in natural disaster areas.
•Investment in bio-fuel, solar energy, wind energy, supercritical fluids, waste conversion to
methane gas, natural gas vehicles for public transportation, etc.
Basic Climate Change Facts:
•Himalayan Glaciers reduced by 30% in the last 30 years. (BBC World News)
•Andes Glaciers reduced by 30% over the last 30 years. (BBC World News)
•Greenland glaciers receding. (CNN Special Report)
•Numerous other glaciers around the world are shrinking.
•The Antarctic and Greenland are melting faster in recent years. (BBC World News)
•Greenland's ice sheets have enough water to raise the sea level by 6 meters and the Antarctic 60 meters.
•Sudan 20 year drought. (BBC World News)
•Afghanistan 20 year drought. (NHK World - Japan: Documentary on Japanese NGO)
•Australia 20 year drought. Destroys rice industry! (BBC World News)
The oceans are rising:
(Global Sea
Level Rise Map)
•Bangladesh is currently confronted with rising
sea levels. (BBC World News)
•High tides in Vietnam are flooding coastal homes. A 1 meter rise in sea level has 40% of Vietnam underwater. (NHK World - Japan)
•The East and West Coast states, Florida and Louisiana will be affected by a 1 meter rise.
•Much closer to home, El Central, Brawley and Indio California will flood with a 1 meter rise.
•Prior to 1993 the annual rise in ocean levels was 1.8 mm (0.07 in). From 1993 to 2003 ocean levels have risen around 3.0 mm (0.118 in) per year.
•The melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica have accelerated in the past few years and is not being included in many sea level rise prediction models.
Change in weather patterns around the world are affecting food supplies
•US farmers in the upper Midwest struggle with harvest due to rain and snow. (First hand accounts from friends)
•Japan accelerates research in new food strains to withstand colder temperatures.
Regional temperature changes in Japan affect farm production and change the growing period. (NHK World - Japan)
•Australia's South Wales loses it's rice industry due to drought. (BBC World News)
•Ship captains in the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California) in Mexico are unable to us traditional navigation methods for forecasting overnight weather conditions. (First hand accounts from friends)
•Reproduction cycles for shrimp and other species are changing due to changes in water temperature in the Sea of Cortez (Government Agency Mexico)
Climate Change is not just Cap & Trade and Alternative Energy
•It is a broad range of issues dealing with:
•Food supply
•Migration
•Immigration
•Wildlife Habitat and Ecosystems
•Community and housing design, etc.
•Due to record snow fall around the world, this spring (2010) we will see increased flooding around the world.
•Don't let the same bad decision makers that put us in this mess, make the same bad decisions that came out of Copenhagen.