Kate Aronoff with one of the most important pieces you will read this year.
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National Climate Assessment
This past Friday government released the 4th National Climate Assessment, clearly they were hoping people would be too busy with post Thanksgiving madness to notice. It is a stark report of how climate change is already impacting life in the US and how it will continue to get worse, and much much more expensive, if we don’t implement bold solutions. Included was a chapter by chapter breakdown of how each region of the country will be impacted. Below is a synopsis of the chapter on the Northwest tweeted by Vlad Guttman-Britten who is the Washington Director of Climate Solutions.
OCA members have their say
Now that most of the dust has cleared on the 2018 election, OCA members should be acknowledged for having their say about climate in the public sphere. In these fractured times, there’s a need for citizens to state plain truths out loud, and OCA members are to be congratulated for stepping up to the democratic (small-d) plate.
Yes on I-1631:
Cindy Jayne in the Port Townsend Leader
Diane Lombardo in the Peninsula Daily News
Robert Sextro in the Peninsula Daily News
Dan Burdick in the Peninsula Daily News
Bob Vreeland in the Peninsula Daily News
Pat Milliren in the Peninsula Daily News
Judy d’Amore in the Peninsula Daily News
Melinda Gelder in the Peninsula Daily News
Clallam County Commissioner:
Jerry Estberg vs. Bill Peach on climate
Clallam County Public Utility District:
Majority favors action on climate, both here and nationally
The people of the Olympic Peninsula, like the people of Washington State and the United States, want to address climate change. $32 million of Big Oil money does not deny that fact!
From Yale Climate Opinion Maps 2018:
Sample survey question: “Congress should do more to address global warming.”
6th Congressional District (Olympic & Kitsap Peninsulas): 62%
Clallam County: 62%
Jefferson County: 65%
Washington State: 64%
United States: 62%
One more chance for WA’s “Green Wave”
…with inaction at the federal level, maybe a single state paving the way is our best hope for catalyzing broader action. Someone needs to lead. With lessons learned from this most recent failure, and more Democratic seats picked up in the state legislature — offering a firmer legislative route to passing a carbon tax — Inslee may yet be proved right in casting that leader as the state of Washington.
Column by Catherine Rampell, who covers the intersection between politics and economics for the Washington Post:
Just an environmental issue? Not!
Where will we find the political will to do what we know needs to be done in the time we have? Here’s an essay in the Sequim Gazette by OCA board member Ann Soule, who also serves as Resource Manager for the City of Sequim:
In our small corner of the globe, the biggest threats are drought, wildfire, and severe storms. . . . Like all wicked problems, solutions to climate change won’t be pretty, fun, or quick. But it will be much easier if it is recognized as a “quality of life” and a “community health” issue, and not strictly an “environmental” issue.
http://www.sequimgazette.com/opinion/water-matters-climate-meltdown/
