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Think globally, act locally:
Why Sultan needs a Critical Areas Ordinance

GLOBAL WARMING

A Nationwide SURVEY conducted for the National Wildlife Federation indicates that hunters and fishers across America are concerned about global warming and the future of the environment and natural habitat. The first two paragraphs of a Life Science article state:

In what might signal a turning point in environmental sentiment in America, a new poll of hunters and fishermen finds the majority think the country is on the wrong track with its energy policy and should be a leader in combating global warming.

In the poll of licensed hunters and anglers, 76 percent said global warming is occurring and 73 percent believe it is impacting or will impact hunting and fishing conditions. A full 78 percent said the solutions should involve conserving more energy, developing fuel-efficient vehicles and expanding the use of renewable sources.

A QUESTION FROM G.R.I.T.:
Why aren't prominent members of the Sultan Sportsman's Club leading the effort locally
to protect our natural environment from further degradation?
I invite them to put aside self interests and join us in supporting passage
of a Critical Areas Ordinance (CAO) for the City of Sultan.

G.R.I.T STATEMENT/OPINION

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G.R.I.T. OPINION (By. L. Storm):

Setting the record straight.... My Republican friends think I'm a flaming Liberal Democrat, my liberal friends think I'm a flaming Right-wing Republican, so the truth lies somewhere between the two extremes, while my husband, Ray Kistenmacher, is a conservative Republican, often-opposing positions which land us in interesting debating territory.

Re GLOBAL WARMING, Ray's overall position is that the Earth is experiencing another cyclical period of solar activity. I might agree with him were it not for certain unmistakable signs. One example is what we found during a recent North Cascades trip to Diablo Pass on Saturday (10/7), in stark contrast to the one we took in July of '95 shortly after reacquainting ourselves following a 21-year blip on life's radar screen. During the '95 trip, the GLACIERS covering the mountain peaks at the rest area overlooking Ross Lake were large, white and almost blindingly bright. On our trip last Saturday I was struck dumb; while not an entirely usual occurrence for me these days, the cause certainly was: These same mountain peaks were now brown and black, berift of white except for small dirty-grey patches of snow here and there, areas totally protected from the sun which I could easily count on one hand. I guess this should not have surprised me, considering that the Cascades near our own Sky Valley are also virtually bare in the summer now -- or, where snow exists, it carries a grey pall.

For the first timem Ray's previously-firm position on global warming -- that it's just another cycle of the sun -- was LESS-entrenched than previously. So I resolved to do some online research to support his theory, thus this webpage. I spent a few hours doing research, but found only a pittance of supporting data and opinion to refute Al Gore's now-famous, An Inconvenient Truth. (And I really tried hard, too: While I am not a Bush fan, neither do I like Gore.)

In any event, I have posted here links to some information I found intriguing in the time I had available for research. Please know, however, that I do not necessarily either endorse or support these articles.

My position at this juncture is that whether global warming is the result of "just another sun cycle," or because of Man's continuing expansion into and degradation of our natural environment, or a combination of both, certainly the "X-factor" presented by the increase in the world's population -- almost 3 billion more people, from 6.5 billion in 2006 to 9 billion by 2040 -- will be tremendously consequential (barring any disaster that would reduce the world's population). It doesn't take a Harvard Ph.D. to understand how potentially catastrophic the negative effects will be from 3 billion more human beings on the biosphere we all share.

I invite everyone to chew on that for awhile.

 

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