The Earth Wins!
March 29th, 2007 by Carbon CoalitionLast night WMUR Channel 9 News aired a short segment “Experts: Climate Change Could Have Major Impact on NH, Data Show Temperatures Have Risen Over the Last Century.” The piece (shown here) reported on the threats that global warming poses (and in some cases, are already in evidence) to NH’s four-season climate: early ice out dates, heat waves, autumn droughts, heavy rains and flooding events, sea level rise, etc. The three climate experts interviewed, Barry Rock, Cameron Wake, and David Brown, warned of a warming trend that could make the state’s climate more like that of Virginia or North Carolina by 2100. Overall it was a great segment despite newscaster Tom Griffith’s editorializing about scientists not being in agreement over this. It was late when this was aired so I ‘m guessing he dozed off during the part where the three experts all spoke in agreement of these changes.
A week ago TPC clarified some rumors that made the rounds during Town Meeting. This article in The Cabinet Press reported on another rumor that hopefully doesn’t need any clarifying. A resident in Lyndeborough spoke out against the Climate Change Resolution claiming if the government were to do what the article suggests then “it might ration gas or impose a carbon tax” or even “follow China’s path and limit the number of children people have to cut down on carbon emissions.” Apparently (and fortunately) not everyone was on the same page as this resident and in the end “the Earth won by 14 votes.”
