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GUEST COLUMN: Oregonians can push for a strong Climate Protection Program
Oregonians feeling the pain and frustration of increasing summer temperatures, heatwaves, drought, wildfire risk and rising sea levels have an opportunity to speak out for a strong Climate Protection Program in Oregon. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has developed a revised CPP for the state. This proposal is available for public review and public comment until 4 p.m. Sept. 27. There will also be a virtual public hearing on Sept. 26. For more information, see https://socan.eco/cpp-2/.
GUEST COLUMN: Wildfire hazard map confusion
We list in a time overwhelmed by data, lists and percentages. Particularly in a presidential election year, polls seemingly quantify everything from candidate preferences to how we feel about the issues of the day. But are they a reflection of how we really think, or just a random sampling of respondents ... some of whom might not answer how they truly feel? You voted: Yes No Sometimes Is this a trick question? If you're interested in submitting a Letter to the Editor, click here.
Ashland Peace House Events and Articles
Today in Clear Actions News we bring you a message of hope and resilience in the growing nonviolent movement calling for an end to the bloodshed in Gaza. We received a dispatch from our ally in peace, Valarie Kaur, and we want to share it. Valarie Kaur offers a strategy for change within her organizing group called the Revolutionary Love Project. In recent weeks, she and her team have visited student encampments and interfaith groups who are calling for a Gaza ceasefire.
GUEST COLUMN: Medford should approve climate action plan
Across the nation, we are becoming increasingly aware of the threat climate change poses. We understand that ongoing climate change will cause more than merely increasingly intense hurricanes and more frequent and severe wildfires. Indeed, the climate trajectory we are following will, within decades, undermine natural ecosystems across the planet and the biodiversity they support. In addition, our agriculture, forestry and fisheries will be compromised.
GUEST COLUMN: Our historic Rogue climate and wildfires
In a recent Our View, we see a discussion of a climate study that adds fuel to an existing fire. It’s always important in such discussions to consider the evidence and the science. Rogue Valley and West Coast residents are familiar with the rainfall pattern: Every summer our grass turns brown and dries out. Then come the winter rains, and everything revives to a gorgeous green. This pattern has existed here for millennia.
NASA Clocks July 2023 as Hottest Month on Record Ever Since 1880
Human-driven climate change pushed global temperatures to never-before-seen heights in July, according to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA. The month is now officially the hottest July on record since record-taking began in the 1800s. And it wasn’t even close: the month was a whopping 0.4 °F warmer than the previous record set in 2019, and well over 2.1 °F hotter than the 20th century average.
Guest Column: Oregon’s Climate Protection Program restores our reputation
This year, Oregon regained its reputation for environmental consciousness and environmental leadership. Oregon became a model for national efforts to address global warming and the looming climate crisis in 2007 when the legislature passed and the Governor signed HB 3543. This established a greenhouse gas emissions reduction trajectory achieving 75% below 1990 levels by 2050. Unfortunately, that program was purely voluntary.
Guest View: Oregon’s climate program restores its reputation
This year, Oregon regained its reputation for environmental consciousness and environmental leadership. Oregon became a model for national efforts to address global warming and the looming climate crisis in 2007 when the Legislature passed and the governor signed HB 3543. This established a greenhouse gas emissions reduction trajectory achieving 75% below 1990 levels by 2050. Unfortunately, that program was purely voluntary.
Journet: Rural coalition seeks bold action on climate
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Other views: Reducing emissions isn't enough
Oregonians living through the September 2020 fires know the threat global warming poses; we are on the front lines. We know temperature is rising and rainfall is declining during summer, while snowpack is declining during winter. We know our soils and vegetation are drying through summer and increasing fire risk because we constantly live with that risk. Climate changes impact what grows in our forests, what and how we grow our food, and how we recreate.
We Should Support Climate Action in Oregon
I am a biologist by training and career. Several decades ago, I was teaching an ecology course at Southeast Missouri State University when ecological theory and climate reality collided. As I was discussing how temperature and precipitation patterns determine the distribution of natural biological systems (forests, grasslands, deserts) across the planet, I realized how the climate projections of the day would, if they came to pass, destroy these natural systems on a planet-wide basis.
Agriculture, timber, and logging interests should demand emission reductions |Opinion
Alan Journet, Guest Opinion Published 4:09 p.m. PT Feb. 28, 2020 About 1,000 carbon cap-and-trade bill supporters rally at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem on Feb. 11, 2020. Senate Bill 1530 would impose an economy-wide cap on carbon emissions and charge the state’s largest polluters for emissions over the limit. Statesman Journal Several decades ago, I was teaching an ecology course when ecological theory and climate reality collided.
A response to the claims of HB 2020 opponents
Whenever proposals suggest changing how we live our lives, residents — quite reasonably — become nervous. One consequence of this is a willingness to accept worst-case outcomes that special interests conjure up to maintain their comfortable status quo.
Guest Opinion: District 3 candidate forum focuses on environment
By Alan Journet For Southern Oregonians, our beautiful environment, forests, waters, mountains, and meadows are among the major benefits that either attracted us, or keep us, here. We cherish opportunities to ski, hike, bike, boat, fish, hunt, camp, photograph, drink the water, breath the air, or just hang out. For many, this precious environment is our greatest treasure. But humans and nature present challenges to the environment we value.
Guest Opinion: Clean Energy Jobs: a no-regrets solution
By Alan Journet No-regrets and win-win solutions rarely come our way, but in the Clean Energy Jobs Bill, Oregon has a chance to hit that sweet spot. The next Southern Oregon Climate Action Now meeting, at 6 p.m Tuesday, Oct. 31 at the Medford Public Library, is devoted to the bill and the campaign.
Guest Opinion: Biomass burning is not carbon-neutral
By Alan R.P Journet When we turn on the lights, TV or stereo, we rarely pause to wonder where the electricity comes from. Back in the day, all that concerned us in budgeting was whether income exceeded expense. If it did, we were happy. But when we understand the threat posed by global warming and its consequences (floods, drought, heat waves, dwindling snowpack, wildfires), we realize the need to consider more than just money.
Guest Opinion: Natural gas not a climate-friendly option for SOU
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