And who will defend us? I certainly hope it is not Jerry Brown, the Democratic nominee for Attorney General.
This is another reason EVERYONE MUST VOTE IN NOVEMBER.
Posted on 08/18/2006 12:49:55 PM PDT by SmithL
The groups, led by the Natural Resources Defense Council, assert that the sea level rise associated with climate change could eventually overtop those levees, putting thousands of people at risk.
The suit targets a permit approved June 26 by the state Reclamation Board that cleared the way for the River Islands project to build 224 luxury homes on top of a 300-foot-wide "superlevee" on Stewart Tract, an island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Eventually, River Islands plans to build 11,000 homes on the island, which lies within the Lathrop city limits.
Barry Nelson, a senior policy advocate at NRDC, claims the board violated the California Environmental Quality Act by failing to examine how sea level rise will affect those levees.
Other plaintiffs include the Natural Heritage Institute and the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance.
"This (governor's) administration has made climate change a priority, but the Reclamation Board just hasn't read the memo, because they're still refusing to even analyze that issue," Nelson said.
The majority of the world's climate scientists agree that the Earth's temperatures are rising, and that human activities are partly to blame. Burning coal, gasoline and other fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which traps more of the sun's heat.
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Who: Environmental groups led by the Natural Resources Defense Council are plaintiffs.
Where: The suit targets a permit that cleared the way for the River Islands project to build 224 luxury homes on top of a 300-foot-wide "superlevee" on Stewart Tract, an island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Oh, grief! How'd they get that permit through? Someone's gonna suck butt on this one...
What about all the houses below the levys in the Natomoas area. One bad winter and a lot of people are going to be hurting like in Marysville in what, 86????
The groups, led by the Natural Resources Defense Council, assert that the sea level rise associated with climate change could eventually overtop those levees, putting thousands of people at risk Barry Nelson, a senior policy advocate at NRDC, claims the board violated the California Environmental Quality Act by failing to examine how sea level rise will affect those levees.
Other plaintiffs include the Natural Heritage Institute and the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance.
"This (governor's) administration has made climate change a priority, but the Reclamation Board just hasn't read the memo, because they're still refusing to even analyze that issue," Nelson said.
The majority of the world's climate scientists agree that the Earth's temperatures are rising, and that human activities are partly to blame. Burning coal, gasoline and other fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which traps more of the sun's heat.
I still ask the enviro-whacks "What great societies created global warming enough to wipe out the first four ice ages?"
Mark, I pinged you here to slap this suit around of enviro-whacks gone wild. Thanks in advance for taking a look.
If global warming doesn't work then I'm sure they'll try global cooling.
Nothing new here. Attorneys have been getting rich picking pockets using junk science for years. Just look at the "Breck Girl" who specialized in babies with CP, which has now been proven to have an unknown cause.
this tops the "McDonalds burned me with their hot coffee" tack.
I was thinking of his episodes of channeling the deceased children.
Incidentally, this sort of charlatanism occured in Salem, Massachusetts, when people were convicted and executed for being "witches" on the most spurious of "evidence."
Yeah, they didn't consider the levee trolls either...the little gnomes who come and lower levees at night. That is about as real as sea levels rising from global warming.
3rd IPCC suggests that while (I don't recall the time frame) the high end studies show as much as 39" sea level increase, the low end shows a drop of 8".
And who will defend us? I certainly hope it is not Jerry Brown, the Democratic nominee for Attorney General.
This is another reason EVERYONE MUST VOTE IN NOVEMBER.
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