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Urban Forests: A Climate Change Solution or Casualty?

First In-Person CSOT Event for 2021 a Success! 

We had great turn out at our first in-person Climate Science On Tap event at Peddler Brewing Company last Thursday, November 18, 2021.  Despite the chilly and wet weather, attendees sat under a heated canopy to hear our panelists talk about the intersection of urban forests and climate change. We’re THANKFUL for the participation of our moderator Sean P. McDonald, our volunteers, our panelists, and the groups that tabled at the event. We’d also like to  thank YOU for your contributions that enable us to continue hosting community events that help inform and educate the public about important climate change topics. If you missed this event, check out the KBCS podcast featuring an interview about Red Cedar dieback with our panelist Joey Hulbert: https://www.kbcs.fm/2021/11/18/the-redlined-western-red-cedar-study-project/

Final EIS & Permit: Westway Oil Terminal (Grays Harbor)

Comments accepted through:  November 19, 2016.

The final EIS for the proposed Westway crude oil shipping terminal at Grays Harbor has been issued and now the City of Hoquiam has a decision to make: to grant or deny the permit for the project.  There is one last opportunity for written public comments that screen-shot-2016-11-10-at-3-08-30-pmwill end on November 19, 2016.

Westway has applied to the City of Hoquiam for a shoreline development permit.  To act on this permit application, the City must take into account the findings of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) that evaluates the broad range of impacts of oil trains going to Hoquiam of 100+ year old tracks and more oil tankers navigating the Harbor.  The FEIS clearly found that impacts to tribal treaty rights, access to fishing, and the risk of a devastating derailment or marine oil spill cannot be mitigated.   

For more information, visit: Washington Dept of Ecology Grays Harbor Terminal Expansion, or Stand up to Oil   www.standuptooil.org or contact Tammy Domike, Citizens for a Clean Harbor, cleangraysharbor@gmail.com.

Oil by Rail – Shell Unloading Facility at Anacortes

Permit Application Cancelled – Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Rail Spur

Screen Shot 2016-06-23 at 5.49.30 PMShell cancelled their permit request after the draft EIS was released in October.  The history and current status can be found on Washington Department of Ecology  website.  They may reapply, if plans change which would result in the EIS  process being started over.

Federal Coal Leasing Program Reform – PEIS

Strip_coal_miningProgrammatic Environmental Impact Statement – Reform of Federal Coal Leasing Program

Comments were accepted: Through July 28, 2016.

Hearings: Six nationally, from May 17, 2016 to June 28, 2016.  In Seattle, June 21, 2016.

EmailBLM_WO_Coal_Program_PEIS_Comments@blm.gov

Mail: Coal Programmatic EIS Scoping
Bureau of Land Management
20 M St. SE, Room 2134 LM
Washington, D.C. 20003 By email or mail.  Get

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Climate Change 2015: The Latest Science

Climate change 2015: The Latest Science:

News Analysis by Bruce Melton, Truth-out.org

Climate science is way out in front of climate policy. Commitments at the United Nations Climate Conference in Paris pale in comparison to those from the Kyoto Protocol with its beginnings in the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. The cheap and unambiguous solution of removing CO2 directly from the sky has been discredited by the perceived debate. Previously assumed stable ice sheets are disintegrating. It is warmer than any time in the last 120,000 years. The Gulf Stream appears to be shutting down. Nearly 100 submarine glacial valleys beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet tunnel warm subtropical Atlantic water 90 miles beneath the ice. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says we need to remove more carbon dioxide from our atmosphere than we emit every year (negative emissions). Most importantly, new knowledge about global cooling smog shows that killing coal will create more warming than doing nothing in the most critical decades-long time frames.

The great delay in climate action has dramatically increased climate change impacts and the amount of carbon dioxide that we must now deal with to prevent even greater impacts. Delay has been caused by the debate casting doubt on climate science in ways that have proven to be effective in similar debates about smoking, acid rain and ozone-depleting chemicals. Because of doubt, fundamentally important new climate science has failed to escape the confines of academia and proceed into the public realm where it can move policy – literally – into the 21st century.

See the rest of the story: Climate change 2015: The Latest Science.

Five Climate Activists Arrested in Everett Blocking Oil Trains

In a protest coordinated by Rising Tide Seattle five climate activists, one perched atop a tripod of poles and the others locked to its legs situated over BNSF Railway train tracks in Everett were arrested on Sept 2nd.  According to the Seattle Times the incident resulted in three trains being delayed and others diverted around the blocked tracks – without damage to any railroad property.

From Al Gore in Rolling Stone

The Turning Point: New Hope for the Climate

 Al Gore:  June 18, 2014 9:00 AM ET

In the struggle to solve the climate crisis, a powerful, largely unnoticed shift is taking place. The forward journey for human civilization will be difficult and dangerous, but it is now clear that we will ultimately prevail. The only question is how quickly we can accelerate and complete the transition to a low-carbon civilization. There will be many times in the decades ahead when we will have to take care to guard against despair, lest it become another form of denial, paralyzing action. It is true that we have waited too long to avoid some serious damage to the planetary ecosystem – some of it, unfortunately, irreversible. Yet the truly catastrophic damages that have the potential for ending civilization as we know it can still – almost certainly – be avoided. Moreover, the pace of the changes already set in motion can still be moderated significantly.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-turning-point-new-hope-for-the-climate-20140618#ixzz387dzUksF
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