Climate change will impact Urban and Rural areas, Agriculture, and Public Health – Can we anticipate the changes that are coming?
Climate change is real, and it is happening now. The change will affect every aspect of who we are and what we do. Quoting Omaha World-Herald columnist Erin Grace: “Climate change is here, so let's talk.” (August 8, 2012, OWH) Understanding what is happening, and how it will affect our home state, is vitally important.
“Climate change can’t be ignored any longer. We need to understand the effects of climate change so that we can make necessary changes, both to attempt to mitigate its effects, but also to adapt to the changes we will endure,” said Steve Andrews, Missouri Valley Sierra Club Chair.
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By Nancy Gaarder
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Omaha World-Herald
Five University of Nebraska-Lincoln climate scientists released a joint statement Friday calling for action on climate change.
Nebraska is in the midst of its warmest and second driest year on record, and as a result has seen a destructive summer of drought, fire and agricultural losses.
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A ‘Hamlet’ Takes Root in Lincoln
by Tim Rinne
NFP State Coordinator
It wasn’t until the personal implications of climate change began to dawn on me—how it would disrupt my daily routine and the world I took for granted—that the full horror of our situation finally sunk in.
I’d already been fuming over the perils of global warming and our dependence on fossil fuels for a decade by then, prevailing on my friends about my concerns, pondering whether I ought to move my family north to a rainier climate. In my anxiety about needing to do something to avert this coming calamity, I’d gotten myself elected to the Executive Committee of the Nebraska Sierra Club and was chairing its Political and Legislative Committee. As NFP’s State Coordinator, I’d made sure Nebraskans for Peace was doing its part as well, ‘connecting the dots’ between climate disruption and social conflict (such as we’re already seeing in Africa with the wars over water and food). Humanity, Al Gore warned in his 2007 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, had begun to “wage war on the Earth,” which only confirmed in my mind that you couldn’t find a more foundational ‘peace issue’ than climate change—because if we don’t have a habitable place to live, all other peace and justice concerns become moot.
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A Blueprint for Public Power in Nebraska
For years, you have read in the Nebraska Report about the dangers of climate change, and the broad consensus among climate scientists that global warming is real and caused by human activities. You have also read about the detrimental health and other impacts of burning coal to produce our electricity, and the need to move quickly towards clean, renewable energy.
The window, however, for making this move is closing rapidly.
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Please join us on for a screening of ‘carbon nation’ on 7 pm at Meadowlark Coffeehouse, 1624 South St., Lincoln.
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