Pelosi Snowed-Out of Glbl Warming Rally

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Pelosi Snowed-Out of Glbl Warming Rally
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Mon, 03-02-2009 - 3:56pm

Looks like we still have severe winter conditions, despite global warming.

http://cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=44320

Pelosi Snowed-Out of Global Warming Rally

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had to cancel an appearance Monday at a global warming rally in Washington, D.C., that was hit by a snowstorm because her flight was delayed, her office told CNSNews.com.

Brianna Cayo-Cotter, the spokesman for the Energy Action Coalition that held the rally, told a group of reporters that she had been in contact with Pelosi and that her flight had been delayed because of inclement weather.

A blizzard Sunday night and early Monday morning blanketed the nation’s capital with snow, causing events to be cancelled and delayed across the city.

House Select Energy Independence and Global Warming Chairman Edward Markey (D-Mass.), who was scheduled to speak at the global warming event, also canceled his appearance because of the inclement weather, a spokesman from his committee’s office told CNSNews.com on Monday.

Speaker Pelosi’s office confirmed to CNSNews.com that her flight had been delayed, but they could not say where the flight was coming from or whether she was flying commercial or charter.

According to a press notification released by the Speaker’s office on Friday, both lawmakers were scheduled to appear on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol at 11:30AM Monday.

“In her remarks, the Speaker will discuss the progress made and the next steps to green the House of Representatives through the Green the Capitol initiative,” said the press release.

But at 9.35am on Monday the House Radio TV/Gallery e-mailed reporters noting that, “The Speaker will NOT be participating in the 2009 Power Shift Conference Rally this morning at 11:30am on the West Front.”

“It is unclear if the event is still going on,” said the release.

The event did occur, however, and despite the lawmakers' absence, about 500 protesters braved temperatures in the mid-20s and congregated on the Capitol lawn.

The rally was part of the Energy Action Coalition’s Power Shift 2009 Conference, which occurred in Washington, D.C., over the weekend.

On its website, under a section entitled "What We're For," the Energy Action Coalition says: "The partners of Energy Action and the youth who are building this movement have been at the forefront of the movement for bold, just and comprehensive action to stop global warming and create a just and sustainable energy future."

The site also includes a "Youth Climate Pledge" that says in part: "The climate crisis is the most urgent issue facing humanity today. Failure to fully and immediately confront it will condemn my generation to a transformed planet."

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Community Leader
Registered: 04-05-2002
Mon, 03-02-2009 - 4:07pm
You can always tell people who are ignorant about global warming by comments about the unusual cold. Global warming doesn't mean we're all going to be living in saunas. It means more diversity





iVillage Member
Registered: 12-25-2008
Mon, 03-02-2009 - 4:16pm

There is a difference between weather and climate.

 


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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-23-2003
Mon, 03-02-2009 - 4:51pm

Exactly!


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Registered: 03-18-2000
Mon, 03-02-2009 - 8:48pm

>"about 500 protesters braved temperatures in the mid-20s and congregated on the Capitol lawn."<

Thousands rally for legislation on climate change

Several thousand demonstrators on Monday urged Congress to pass legislation to reduce greenhouse gases, and they targeted the government's own Capitol power plant as a symbol of the problem.

An enthusiastic crowd of mostly young people marched from a park near the Capitol to the small power plant several blocks away, chanting "We don't want the world to boil, no coal, no oil!"

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gTJ799AtURArOnuR5jn5GDlyLWLQD96M6GM00

 


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Registered: 02-19-2008
Tue, 03-03-2009 - 10:08am

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/02/shiver-global-warming-protest-frozen-massive-snowfall/

Global warming activists stormed Washington Monday for what was billed as the nation's largest act of civil disobedience to fight climate change -- only to see the nation's capital virtually shut down by a major winter storm.

Schools and businesses were shuttered, lawmakers cancelled numerous appearances and the city came to a virtual standstill as Washington was blasted with its heaviest snowfall of the winter.

It spelled about six inches of trouble for global warming activists who had hoped to swarm the Capitol by the thousands in an effort to force the government to close the Capitol Power Plant, which heats and cools a number of government buildings, including the Supreme Court and the Capitol.

The snowy scene, with temperatures in the mid-20s, was reminiscent of a day in January 2004, when Al Gore made a major address on global warming in New York -- on one of the coldest days in the city's history.

Protest organizers said about 2,500 people braved the blizzard to oppose greenhouse gas emissions, but the shroud of snow wasn't the only wet blanket in the nation's capital Monday.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who called on the architect of the Capitol to stop burning coal at the power plant last week, cancelled her appearance at the rally because her flight to Washington was cancelled.

Michelle Obama canned a public "Read Across America" event and HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan canceled a meeting with the Democratic Caucus because the members of Congress couldn't get to D.C. An honor cordon at the Pentagon for Afghanistan's defense minister also had to be called off.

Some protesters couldn't make it as dozens of flights in the area were delayed or called off, and some couldn't face the dangerous roads or blustery weather, leaving hundreds safe, if sorry, back at home.

One protester named Kat had planned to get arrested and be bailed out Monday but decided to stay put and donate her money to a good cause instead.

"I don't want to travel in the snow today. However, I am donating my bail money to fight mountaintop removal," she wrote to the Climate Action Web site.

Even marchers in gloves and parkas were wringing their hands to stay warm, and some protest leaders were having trouble providing updates on blog sites like Twitter.

"I admit, it's hard to tweet with cold hands!" wrote the author of the Capitol Climate Action Web site, who said the activists were "staying warm with a chant: 'Clean coal is a dirty lie.'"

The plant has been seized as a symbol of the government's energy excess, and the 99-year-old facility accounts for a third of the legislative branch's greenhouse gas emissions.

Protesters gathered earlier Monday in the Spirit of Justice Park near the Capitol and marched a few blocks to the power plant, where D.C. police set up a careful cordon.

In a press release supporting the protest, Greenpeace wrote that "coal is the country's biggest source of global warming pollution" and that "burning coal cuts short at least 24,000 lives in the U.S. annually."

On a blustery, frigid day, it might be worth noting the government's own stark numbers: pneumonia kills twice as many each year.

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-04-2009
Tue, 03-03-2009 - 6:49pm

There is a difference between weather and climate.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 02-05-2009
Tue, 03-03-2009 - 9:01pm

Looks like we still have severe winter conditions, despite global warming.


If you believe there's a correlation between winter temps and overall climate... then explain to me, please....


I grew up in Texas, and we had snow almost every year.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-30-2002
Tue, 03-03-2009 - 9:34pm

And if we want to go the anecdotal evidence route of climate change, I live in the Sierras where it is currently RAINING for the second week at the local ski resorts. It's not even cold enough for them to make snow at night and have it not get washed away by the rain the next day. I have an acquaintence that has been driving down from Truckee every day for the last two weeks in the RAIN. Usually one needs to chain up to go over the Summit if it is raining at the lower elevations this time of year.


Snow pack is at 63% of normal, this is the thrid year of drought conditions, reserviors are below capacity,



iVillage Member
Registered: 02-05-2009
Tue, 03-03-2009 - 10:47pm

And if we want to go the anecdotal evidence route of climate change, ...


Is it really anecdotal?

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-22-2009
Wed, 03-04-2009 - 12:30am

It's okay - those greenie

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