[✔️] April 23, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[Richard Pauli]

/*April 23, 2021*/

[ROMGF = reassess our messaging going forward]
*Boston Logan Airport Deletes Earth Day Tweet After Ridicule*

The Associated Press - April 21, 2021

In response to public ridicule, Boston's Logan International Airport 
deleted a Tweet that encouraged travelers to use the airport parking 
garage under the guise that it helped the environment.

The post on Monday from the airport read: *“For those traveling, parking 
at the airport brings you close to your terminal and reduces the impact 
on the environment,*” and used the hashtag Earth Day, the Boston Globe 
reported...
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The Massachusetts Sierra Club called the post “ridiculous greenwashing,” 
and said Massport, the independent state agency that operates the 
airport, should do more to reduce traffic, emissions and air pollution.

Others argued the airport should promote the use of public 
transportation, including the Blue and Silver lines, and questioned if 
the airport was trying to increase revenue from onsite parking, the 
newspaper reported...
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The airport decided to delete the tweet after seeing the reaction, 
Massport spokesperson Jennifer Mehigan said in a statement Tuesday.

“It was clear the post lacked context. We decided to remove it so we 
could reassess our messaging going forward,” she said, adding that 
Massport has “a positive record when it comes to sustainability and 
reducing our environmental impact.”
https://www.wbur.org/earthwhile/2021/04/21/boston-logan-parking-tweet-environment-backlash


[following the money]
*Climate Change Could Cut World Economy by $23 Trillion in 2050, 
Insurance Giant Warns*
Poor nations would be particularly hard hit, but few would escape, Swiss 
Re said. The findings could influence how the industry prices insurance 
and invests its mammoth portfolios.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/22/climate/climate-change-economy.html




[Reuters]
*2020 was Europe’s hottest year on record - EU scientists*
Europe experienced its hottest year on record last year, while the 
Arctic suffered a summer of extreme wildfires partly due to low snow 
cover as climate change impacts intensified, the European Union’s 
observation service said on Thursday.

As world leaders prepared to brandish their plans to fight climate 
change at a U.S.-led summit on Thursday, EU scientists issued a stark 
reminder that the impacts of a warmer world are already here.

Europe's average annual temperature in 2020 was the highest on record 
and at least 0.4 degrees Celsius above the next five warmest years -- 
all of which took place in the last decade, the Copernicus Earth 
observation service said.

"Temperatures are increasing in all seasons in Europe," said Freja 
Vamborg, senior scientist at Copernicus...
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Globally, Copernicus Earth said 2020 was one of the world’s three 
hottest years on record, confirming findings released this week by the 
World Meteorological Organization.

The EU on Wednesday set a target to slash emissions faster this decade, 
and the United States is expected to do the same on Thursday, hiking the 
pressure on countries including China and India.

Currently, countries’ combined pledges fall far short of the rapid 
emissions cuts scientists say are needed to limit warming to 1.5 degrees 
above pre-industrial levels and stave off the most severe impacts of 
climate change.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/2020-was-europes-hottest-year-record-eu-scientists-2021-04-22/ 



*
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[Go North Young Man]*
**Shelter From The Climate Storm? Experts Say Vermont Needs To Prepare 
For 'Climigration'*
April 21, 2021 John Dillon, Vermont Public Radio
https://www.wbur.org/earthwhile/2021/04/21/climate-change-vermont-migration-population-influx



[Politics and Prose Bookstore]
*P&P Live! Kate Aronoff — OVERHEATED: How Capitalism Broke the Planet 
and How We Fight Back - with Jane Fonda*
Friday, April 23, 2021 - 6 p.m.
This event is presented in partnership with our friends at The New Republic.

It has become impossible to deny that the planet is warming, and that 
governments must act. But a new denialism is taking root in the halls of 
power, shaped by decades of neoliberal policies and centuries of 
anti-democratic thinking. Since the 1980s, Democrats and Republicans 
have each granted enormous concessions to industries hell bent on 
maintaining business as usual. What’s worse, policymakers have given oil 
and gas executives a seat at the table designing policies that should 
euthanize their business model.

This approach, journalist Kate Aronoff makes clear, will only drive the 
planet further into emergency. In Overheated, Aronoff lays out an 
alternative vision, detailing how democratic majorities can curb 
polluters’ power; create millions of well-paid, union jobs; enact 
climate reparations; and transform the economy into a more leisurely and 
sustainable one. Our future will require a radical reimagining of 
politics—with the world at stake.

Aronoff will be in conversation with Jane Fonda, two-time Academy Award 
winner and an Emmy award–winning American actor and activist. She 
founded Fire Drill Fridays in October 2019 in partnership with 
Greenpeace USA and sits on the boards of V-Day: Until the Violence 
Stops, the Women’s Media Center (which she cofounded in 2004), the 
Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power & Potential, and Homeboy 
Industries. Her book, What Can I Do? My Path from Climate Despair to 
Action, is on sale now.

CLICK HERE 
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[Elon Musk offers a $100M prize for the best lifeboat]
*$100M PRIZE FOR CARBON REMOVAL PHASE*
Registration
https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk

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[hey kids, earn millions just by thinking]
*All you need to know about Elon Musk’s Carbon Capture Prize*
Apr 20, 2021
Sabine Hossenfelder
Check out the physics courses that I mentioned (many of which are free!) 
and support this channel by going to https://brilliant.org/Sabine/​ 
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off the annual premium subscription.

Entries for Elon Musk's Carbon xPrize will open on Earth day, April 
22nd. In this video, I tell you all you need to know about carbon 
capture and the entry requirements that you need to know to understand 
the challenges ahead.

Website of the prize is here: https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk​

Addendum to what I say at 2 mins 15 seconds. In the long run, we have to 
get to net zero emissions if we are to keep warming to 1.5 C.
0:00​ Intro
0:26​ The Challenge
2:37​ Competition Entry Requirements
3:07​ Trees
4:24​ Cremation Digression
5:04​ Ocean Fertilization
5:52​ Biochar
6:40​ Plastic Digression
7:01​ Weathering
7:42​ Direct Air Capture
8:36​ Seawater Extraction
9:36​ Capture and Storage
10:18​ Summary
10:37​ Sponsor Message
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmWpFCjh0Fk


[New book publication]
“Fire in Paradise has the narrative propulsion and granular detail of 
the best breaking-news disaster journalism."
—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
*FIRE IN PARADISE - **AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY*
There is no precedent in postwar American history for the destruction of 
the town of Paradise, California. On November 8, 2018, the community of 
27,000 people was swallowed by the ferocious Camp Fire, which razed 
virtually every home and killed at least 85 people. The catastrophe 
seared the American imagination, taking the front page of every major 
national newspaper and top billing on the news networks. It displaced 
tens of thousands of people, yielding a refugee crisis that continues to 
unfold.

PRAISE
"Drawing heavily on the powerful interviews they conducted at the time 
and in the stunned aftermath, [Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano] have 
created a gripping account of the fire and how it affected the community."
—BOOKLIST

“A tense and detailed account…Gee and Anguiano vividly describe the 
conflagration without sensationalizing it…This impressive report makes a 
convincing case that such tragedies as the Camp Fire are not a freak 
occurrence, but a glimpse of the future.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"Powerful. . . A riveting narrative that provides further compelling 
evidence for the urgency of environmental stewardship."
—KIRKUS REVIEWS, STARRED REVIEW

“A gripping and meticulously reported account of how one California 
community was wiped from the map, and a terrifying bellwether of the 
mounting personal costs of the world’s climate emergency.”
—ADAM HIGGINBOTHAM, AUTHOR OF MIDNIGHT IN CHERNOBYL

"Gee and Anguiano’s on-the-ground reporting from California’s deadliest 
wildfire is so riveting and evocative that you can almost smell the 
smoke―not just from the oaks and pines, but from all the scorched 
vinyl-sided homes, melted car tires, and exploding propane tanks."
—DAN EGAN, AUTHOR OF THE DEATH AND LIFE OF THE GREAT LAKES

"This remarkable account will remind you of the power of the human 
spirit, even or especially, in a crisis."
—BILL McKIBBEN, AUTHOR OF FALTER

"A frightening book that will make readers take stock of their own home 
surroundings, regional infrastructure, and the values of our times."
—ANNIE PROULX, AUTHOR OF BARKSKINS
http://fireinparadisebook.com/



[Beware the over-enthusiastic]
*Is 30 percent land converted to protected areas the biggest land grab 
in history?*
BINAYAK DAS on 4/22/2021
THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE STAND TO LOSE THEIR LAND AND LIVELIHOOD, 
MOST OF THEM TRIBAL AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, ACCORDING TO SURVIVAL 
INTERNATIONAL
World leaders and global conservation organizations are expected to 
discuss a proposal under the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework to 
convert 30% of the planet into a protected zone at President Biden’s 
Leaders’ Summit on Climate from April 22-23, which is subsequently 
planned to be agreed at the COP15 summit in China in October.

But Survival International has warned that it would constitute “the 
biggest land grab in history.” Three hundred million people stand to 
lose their land and livelihood, most of them tribal and indigenous peoples.

Survival International has labelled the plan the #BigGreenLie.

Fiore Longo, head of Survival’s conservation campaign, said “It is a 
plan without scientific basis, that will do nothing to combat climate 
change or the loss of biodiversity, but will increase human suffering 
and the destruction of nature. It is a deadly distraction from what is 
urgently needed to secure human diversity and all biodiversity and the 
recognition of indigenous peoples’ rights to their land.”

Among the Action Targets of the Framework, Target 2 states that: By 
2030, protect and conserve through well connected and effective system 
of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures 
at least 30 per cent of the planet with the focus on areas particularly 
important for biodiversity.

Campaign launched against the landgrab

More than 230 organizations and experts have signed a letter addressing 
Boris Johnson expressing concerns over the 30% target. The letter stated 
that evidence shows that when tribal and indigenous peoples’ rights to 
their ancestral territories are guaranteed, they are the best guardians 
of nature, yet the current plan does not provide any guarantee for the 
rights of tribal and indigenous peoples or for local communities. Their 
territorial rights and their rights to self determination and to free, 
prior and informed consent, which are enshrined in international law, 
must be guaranteed and respected.

Main Concerns to the 30% protected areas proposal

Among the key objections raised by Survival, and other NGOs like 
Rainforest Foundation and Minority Rights Group International to the 
plan include:

*- Land-grabbing:* if the plan goes ahead, 300 million people stand to 
lose their lands, which will be turned into Protected Areas. The 
creation of almost every Protected Area in Africa and Asia has involved 
the theft of people’s land without their Free, Prior and  Informed 
Consent. Dozens more stand to be created if 30×30 goes ahead.
*- Abuses:* Tribal and indigenous peoples whose lands have already been 
turned into Protected Areas have been the subject of appalling abuses 
going back decades, including rape, torture and murder. Most of these 
abuses have been committed by rangers backed and funded by big 
conservation organizations including WWF and WCS.
*- A false “wilderness” solution:* The 30×30 plan is just the latest 
plan produced by Western conservationists that erroneously sees tribal 
peoples’ lands as “wilderness” to be preserved for the common good, 
rather than as land they have managed and protected over time. Tribal 
peoples stand to be evicted and dispossessed to provide the comforting – 
but false – illusion of a solution to a problem they didn’t create.
Longo added, “This is a critical moment. If world leaders discuss 
business as usual, the outcome will be more false, unscientific, racist 
and colonial proposals, such as the 30% project and nature-based solutions.

What is happening in current Protected areas

In many parts of the world a Protected Area is where the local people 
who called the land home for generations are no longer allowed to live 
or use the natural environment to feed their families, gather medicinal 
plants or visit their sacred sites. It is estimated that indigenous 
peoples and local communities number 2.5 billion people who customarily 
manage over 50 percent of the global land mass. They legally own just 10 
percent.

This protected areas concept follows the model of the United States’ 
nineteenth century creation of the world’s first national parks on lands 
stolen from Native Americans. Many US national parks forced the peoples 
who had created the wildlife-rich “wilderness” landscapes into 
landlessness and poverty.

Jenu Kuruba community protesting at the Nagarhole National Park, India/© 
Survival International
This is still happening to indigenous peoples and other communities in 
Africa and parts of Asia. Local people are pushed out by force, coercion 
or bribery. They are beaten, tortured and abused by park rangers when 
they try to hunt to feed their families or just to access their 
ancestral lands. The best guardians of the land, once self-sufficient 
and with the lowest carbon footprint of any of us, are reduced to 
landless impoverishment and often end up adding to urban overcrowding. 
Once the locals are gone, tourists, extractive industries and others are 
welcomed in. For these reasons, local opposition to Protected Areas is 
growing.

The campaigners state that outside the corridors of power, criticism is 
building. More and more people agree that this will be a catastrophe 
from a human rights perspective, especially for indigenous and other 
local people in the Global South and will pay the price for 
environmental destruction they didn’t cause. From an environmental 
perspective, it simply won’t work: kicking indigenous people off their 
land to create Protected Areas won’t help the climate. On the contrary, 
indigenous peoples are the best guardians of the natural world and an 
essential part of human diversity that is a key to protecting biodiversity.

https://www.sixdegreesnews.org/archives/30117/is-30-percent-land-converted-to-protected-areas-the-biggest-land-grab-in-history

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[poem video]

The Big Green Lie
Premiered 4-22-21
*Survival International*
If you support the plan to turn 30% of Earth into protected areas, 
you’re supporting the biggest land grab in history. It’ll be a disaster 
for people & planet. If you care about Earth, watch & share!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRc7Ez8uY7A


[Trouble in NYC]
*Here’s How NYC Transit System Is Prepping For Sea Level Rise—And Why It 
May Not Be Enough*
NATHAN KENSINGER - APRIL 22, 2021
New York City is surrounded by water, with over 130 neighborhoods 
situated along 520 miles of coastline. Its populace of 8.3 million 
residents—the largest metro area in the United States—relies heavily on 
its vast transportation system. And as sea levels continue to rise, the 
future of both the city and its transportation network are in jeopardy.

Coney Island is an ideal place to view this present-day peril. Start on 
a dead-end stretch of Shore Parkway. The road here floods with even a 
light rain, covering the broken concrete in thick mud. On one side of 
the street is Coney Island Creek, where Hurricane Sandy’s surge pushed 
ashore and inundated this Brooklyn neighborhood in 2012.

Coney Island Yard Complex, one of the largest rapid transit train yards 
in the world, sits on the other side. This 74-acre facility was flooded 
with 27 million gallons of seawater during the hurricane, leaving the 
train yard crippled.

“Coinciding with the high tide, the storm washed in water and debris 
which quickly inundated the tracks, switches, motors and signal 
equipment. In Sandy's wake, the yard more closely resembled a lake than 
a storage area for subway trains,” New York’s Metropolitan 
Transportation Authority (MTA) wrote in a 2013 synopsis. “The storm left 
the track-switching operation at the world's largest rapid transit 
maintenance and storage facility unable to be controlled remotely.”

Since 2018, the MTA has been working on a project to protect the Coney 
Island Yard from future storms and sea level rise. The authority built 
21,000 feet of new drainage, nine flood gates, two pumping stations and 
a 4,280-foot-long bridge above the yard, elevating third-rail power 
lines and communications cables out of the flood zone. They are also 
erecting a 12,000-foot-long floodwall around the perimeter of the yard.
This enormous flood barrier is not yet finished, but several pieces can 
be seen along the muddy edge of Shore Parkway. It is a brutal, 
utilitarian piece of work, made of metal sheets driven 30 feet 
underground that then stretch 8 to 14 feet toward the sky. The wall 
currently ends at a porous metal fence lined with burst sandbags, 
providing a stark reminder of what previously protected the yard.

Similar rebuilding and mitigation efforts are taking place around the 
city. When Hurricane Sandy overwhelmed New York City, it damaged almost 
every part of the transit system. Boats were pushed onto train tracks, 
tunnels and subway stations flooded, and bus depots and train yards were 
filled with corrosive saltwater. During the storm, some of the MTA’s 
flood barriers were little more than plywood and piles of sandbags.

Once complete, these upgrades are intended to protect the yard and the 
five boroughs from future cyclones and torrential downpours—calamities 
whose rains, surges, and winds are being boosted by the climate crisis. 
For those who have assessed the threat of sea level rise in New York 
City, even this may not be enough.

One Enormous Challenge, Many Little Fixes
After Superstorm Sandy, the MTA committed $7.7 billion toward rebuilding 
and making its system more resilient. It also created a Climate 
Adaptation Task Force to evaluate the threats facing the transportation 
system and recommend solutions. One of its first tasks was to determine 
what level of flooding to actually plan for.

“For the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), climate change is 
not only an urgent reality, it is a reality to which all six MTA 
agencies are already devoting extensive financial, planning, and 
engineering resources,” the task force wrote in its 2017 report. “There 
is no responsible alternative,”

Four of the MTA’s six branches adopted different Design Flood 
Elevations, but the water rise they anticipate is sobering.

MTA Bridges and Tunnels, which operates seven bridges and two tunnels in 
New York City, is preparing for a 500-year storm akin to Hurricane 
Harvey. The Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad systems 
manage 1,381 miles of tracks and 247 train stations. They are preparing 
for flooding four feet above FEMA’s Advisory Base Flood Elevations 
(ABFE). And New York City Transit, the regulators of all subways and 
buses, is designing for three feet above a Category 2 hurricane.

“The challenges that come from climate change are much greater today 
than they were when many of the MTA’s features were designed and 
created,” Projjal Dutta, the task force chair and the MTA’s Director of 
Sustainability Initiatives, told Gothamist/WNYC in a recent interview. 
The task force is currently tracking a dozen projects. “Our 
interventions are rarely of a grand scale. They are not storm surge 
barriers. But, they are small, they are numerous.”

The finished projects include waterproofing Staten Island’s St. George 
Terminal with a new drainage system, floodwalls, and water-resistant 
plastic track ties. The authority built a seawall along the Harlem River 
at the 207th Street Yard and installed thousands of smaller barriers 
across Manhattan, including flood doors and flex barriers at subway 
entrances.

“A lot of the flooding happened through these very small things that you 
would not think of as grand at all. But when there is 10 or 11 feet of 
standing water above these openings, that can amount to a lot,” said 
Dutta. “In Lower Manhattan alone, there are approximately 500 of them, 
from manhole covers to where the grates equalize the air pressure.”

Mission accomplished...for now
In March, the MTA marked a major milestone in its rebuilding efforts, 
completing repairs and upgrades on the last of its 11 tunnels that Sandy 
damaged. Inside the Rutgers Tube, where the F line travels underneath 
the East River, they replaced 4,635 feet of subway track, repaired 250 
feet of tunnel wall and installed hundreds of thousands of feet of 
signal and communications cables.

“We are nearing the completion of all the Sandy-related resilience 
work,” Janno Lieber, the President of MTA Construction & Development, 
recently told Gothamist/WNYC. “This is huge stuff. I mean the whole 
system, we needed to move the controls out of the flood zone. We’ve 
needed to harden a ton of infrastructure to keep water out. We’ve needed 
to increase pumping capacity in 11 tunnels that were deluged.”

Ultimately, the MTA’s investment will only protect the transit system 
for a limited period of time. In its March 2019 report, the New York 
City Panel on Climate Change projected that the city is facing between 
1.25 and 9.5 feet of sea level rise by the end of the century. This will 
permanently flood some neighborhoods, augmenting tidal flooding and 
storm surges along the way. According to one of the report’s authors, a 
large-scale managed retreat from the waterfront seems inevitable.

“It will be a city at higher elevations,” said Dr. Klaus Jacob, a 
geophysicist at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, who served on the 
city’s climate panel from 2008 to 2019. He anticipates that residents in 
dozens of coastal neighborhoods will need to relocate to higher ground 
as sea levels rise.

“This will cost at least in the hundreds of billions as a project 
because it’s not just the housing,” Jacob added. “If you move around 
hundreds of thousands of people, it will [mean] changes for school 
capacity, for medical facilities, parks, libraries, you name it. The 
whole infrastructure of the city will have to adapt to this migration.”

A managed retreat of this scale would influence the MTA’s 
infrastructure, especially its coastal train routes, which would have to 
be moved inland, according to Jacob. This would be extremely difficult, 
given the density of the region’s buildings and other infrastructure.

“Many of them are at such low lying places,” said Jacob. “The only 
opportunity I see, if we want to modernize and stabilize our train 
connections in the Atlantic coastal areas, is to go to elevated tracks.”

Jacob has worked on several assessments of how sea level rise will 
impact the MTA, including a pre-Sandy evaluation that predicted some of 
the storm damage. In a more recent analysis, he and a team of Columbia 
engineering graduate students evaluated how the MTA’s new network of 
approximately 4,000 flood measures in Manhattan would fare during 
another Sandy.

“It was amazing how much the leakage rate or the flooding of the subway 
had gone down. It was essentially eliminated,” said Jacob. “That would 
get you way beyond the year 2050 and maybe even later, depending on the 
rate of sea level rise.”

But that is if the system performs precisely as designed. The team 
tested what would happen if certain singular failures occur. They found 
that if just one barrier at a subway entrance were to fail, it would be 
almost like the other 3,999 odd barriers weren’t there.

“There’s no redundancy in the system,” said Jacob, who recommended that 
the MTA create an entirely new set of backups for its Manhattan flood 
protection. “It’s the famous weakest link in the chain.”

With many pieces of its infrastructure at or below sea level, the MTA is 
painfully aware of the threats posed by the climate crisis. The 
Metro-North’s Hudson line is located at the edge of the Hudson River. 
The A train barely skims above Jamaica Bay. Elevating or relocating 
train lines and moving facilities to higher ground may eventually become 
necessary, but the MTA is saving those decisions for a later date.

“Right now, we are not retreating, we are battening down the hatches and 
making sure that all of our systems can manage the risk that has been 
created by climate change,” said Lieber from MTA Construction & 
Development. “We learned a lot from the Sandy experience. No part of the 
city was hit harder than the MTA, so we are trying to put all those 
lessons into effect. So, I am going to leave [it] to wiser heads, the 
question of retreat.”

Columbia University’s Earth Institute will convene a conference this 
June to investigate the question At What Point Managed Retreat? It is a 
conundrum facing cities around the world. For Jacob, the answer is clear.

“Why don’t we start to plan for that now. That means our land use and 
zoning will have to be updated now,” said Jacob. “New York City better 
adapt. Because if it’s not adapting, it’s doomed.”

Full disclosure: Nathan Kensinger will be an unpaid panelist at the 
Columbia University academic conference on managed retreat mentioned in 
this article.
https://gothamist.com/news/heres-how-nyc-transit-system-is-prepping-for-sea-level-riseand-why-it-may-not-be-enough



[Digging back into the internet news archive]
*On this day in the history of global warming - April 23, 2007 *

April 23, 2007:
In a speech on climate change and energy at the Center for Strategic and 
International Studies in Washington, D.C., Senator John McCain (R-AZ) notes:

"The burning of oil and other fossil fuels is contributing to the 
dangerous accumulation of greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere, 
altering our climate with the potential for major social, economic and 
political upheaval. The world is already feeling the powerful effects of 
global warming, and far more dire consequences are predicted if we let 
the growing deluge of greenhouse gas emissions continue, and wreak havoc 
with God's creation. A group of senior retired military officers 
recently warned about the potential upheaval caused by conflicts over 
water, arable land and other natural resources under strain from a 
warming planet. The problem isn't a Hollywood invention nor is doing 
something about it a vanity of Cassandra like hysterics. It is a serious 
and urgent economic, environmental and national security challenge.

"National security depends on energy security, which we cannot achieve 
if we remain dependent on imported oil from Middle Eastern governments 
who support or foment by their own inattention and inequities the rise 
of terrorists or on swaggering demagogues and would be dictators in our 
hemisphere.

"There's no doubt it's an enormous challenge. But is it too big a 
challenge for America to tackle; this great country that has never 
before confronted a problem it couldn't solve? No, it is not. No people 
have ever been better innovators and problem solvers than Americans. It 
is in our national DNA to see challenges as opportunities; to conquer 
problems beyond the expectation of an admiring world. America, relying 
as always on the industry and imagination of a free people, and the 
power and innovation of free markets, is capable of overcoming any 
challenge from within and without our borders. Our enemies believe we're 
too weak to overcome our dependence on foreign oil. Even some of our 
allies think we're no longer the world's most visionary, most capable 
country or committed to the advancement of mankind. I think we know 
better than that. I think we know who we are and what we can do. Now, 
let's remind the world."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca-82G-mEvs

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=77106

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/23/AR2007042301763.html

• Katie Couric's CBSNews.com "Notebook" segment covers the calamity of 
climate change.

http://youtu.be/CGJMyei2iQM


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