http://www.wfpl.org/2009/08/04/flooding-puts-army-corps-of-engineers-on-alert/ Louisville's NPR News Station Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:08:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.wfpl.org/2009/08/04/flooding-puts-army-corps-of-engineers-on-alert/comment-page-1/#comment-2554 Kitty McIlroy Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:18:25 +0000 http://www.wfpl.org/?p=7404#comment-2554 Not addressing climate change effectively, by getting off coal and oil is getting more expensive every day. We must start to cut our CO2 emissions asap. To cut CO2 emissions we have an historic opportunity when President Obama goes to Copenhagen this December to reach a new international agreement to address climate change. We should encourage our President to do everything he can to finally start seriously addressing this growing problem. Scientists say we must cut our emissions 25 to 40% by 2020 from 1990 levels to avoid the worst possible effects of climate change. Not addressing climate change effectively, by getting off coal and oil is getting
more expensive every day. We must start to cut our CO2 emissions asap.
To cut CO2 emissions we have an historic opportunity when President
Obama goes to Copenhagen this December to reach a new international
agreement to address climate change. We should encourage our
President to do everything he can to finally start seriously
addressing this growing problem. Scientists say we must cut our
emissions 25 to 40% by 2020 from 1990 levels to avoid the worst
possible effects of climate change.

]]> http://www.wfpl.org/2009/08/04/flooding-puts-army-corps-of-engineers-on-alert/comment-page-1/#comment-2553 Kitty McIlroy Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:02:45 +0000 http://www.wfpl.org/?p=7404#comment-2553 This has been called a once in 100 years storm, yet I don't know if there has ever been this much rain in this short of an amount of time ever before. While climate change is not is not solely responsible for any one storm what is obvious to me is we are experiencing what are supposed to be very rare events all the time now. Not addressing climate change effectively, by getting off coal and oil is getting more expensive every day. We must start to cut our CO2 emissions asap. To cut CO2 emissions we have an historic opportunity when President Obama goes to Copenhagen this December to reach a new international agreement to address climate change. We should encourage our President to do everything he can to finally start seriously addressing this growing problem. Scientists say we must cut our emissions 25 to 40% by 2020 from 1990 levels to avoid the worst possible effects of climate change. This has been called a once in 100 years storm, yet I don’t know if
there has ever been this much rain in this short of an amount of time
ever before. While climate change is not is not solely responsible for
any one storm what is obvious to me is we are experiencing what are
supposed to be very rare events all the time now. Not addressing
climate change effectively, by getting off coal and oil is getting
more expensive every day. We must start to cut our CO2 emissions asap.
To cut CO2 emissions we have an historic opportunity when President
Obama goes to Copenhagen this December to reach a new international
agreement to address climate change. We should encourage our
President to do everything he can to finally start seriously
addressing this growing problem. Scientists say we must cut our
emissions 25 to 40% by 2020 from 1990 levels to avoid the worst
possible effects of climate change.

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