Conference works toward answers to impending global energy crisis

Carol Browner, recently appointed to the newly created position of assistant to the president for energy and climate change, delivered the morning keynote address. She made it clear that a new era of more aggressive policies under President Obama will address energy independence and climate change. She said that $600 million through the Recovery Act are planned for improving the U.S. infrastructure, "training people to lay new grid and solar and wind arrays." On the subject of capping CO2 emissions, Browner said that with every ban or cap of atmospheric pollutants "people argued that it would be too costly, too much of a burden." She pointed to the successes with the CFC ban and the sulfur cap.

Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant | Tulsa Beacon

While the unfounded scare mongering rages on against this county, China, the world’s biggest polluter, will continue on unhindered.

Inform your congressmen.

N. D. Blevins, Sand Springs

Lost in translation?: Climate Change More Severe From Global Warming

Climate change is caused by global warming and responsible for expanding deserts and intense storms. A recent study suggests that up to 30 percent of all animals and plants are facing rapid extinction.
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Climate change is very real, according to top scientists who are studying the current conditions caused by global warming. This current generation is watching more changes than any previous on Earth. A team of scientists at Stanford University discovered that greenhouse gas emissions increased far more rapidly than they expected.
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The Arctic is the fastest warming area on the planet and there could be as much as 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide released from permafrost soils in the Arctic this year.
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Scientists predict that the fifth assessment of global warming in 2014 will make the 2007 report seem very conservative.

Spring blizzard destroys Calgary Zoo's endangered whooping crane eggs

CALGARY - Unseasonably cold weather has dealt a blow to the Calgary Zoo's whooping crane breeding program, freezing two of the rare birds' eggs.

Zoo curator Bob Peel said a blizzard last week demonstrated the fragility of conservation efforts for an endangered species with a world population of less than 500.