Last week I had a visit from Mark Gould, Group Leader of the Charleston SC Chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, “a non-profit, non-partisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address climate change.” Joining us was Caleb Pennington, a University of South Carolina student, who is starting a Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) on his […]
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The Beaufort Gazzette July 12, 2015 By STEPHEN FASTENAU A group discussing long-range plans for how Beaufort and Port Royal can address rising sea levels says the sky is not yet falling, but the conversation is important. A task force made up of area residents, engineers and researchers met again last week to talk about
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When the last assessment of climate change by the world’s scientists (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report 2013/14) came out, the report handed climate change deniers a gift. The report concluded that global warming had slowed down from 1998-2012. This “hiatus” was enough for opponents of actions to curb carbon pollution to
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Charleston Post and Courier March 31, 2015 BY CHIP CAMPSEN, a Republican and an Isle of Palms resident, representing District 43, in the S.C. Senate. The Senate District I represent is a long coastal district covering more than 80 miles of South Carolina’s coast. It runs from Bulls Bay in Charleston County, to Port Royal
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Last week the South Carolina Public Service Commission (PSC) approved a Settlement Agreement reached by parties to the recent net metering case. Small businesses have a substantial interest in being able to affordably use solar panels to reduce their energy bills and contribute to the important renewable energy effort. As an individual I intervened in
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Tomorrow (January 20th) the U.S. Senate will start debating and voting on a bill to force the Obama Administration to approve the construction of the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline that would carry ¾ million barrels of tar sands crude oil a day from Canada to the Gulf. The pipeline won’t create but 50 permanent jobs
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“Drillers around the world have already begun to trim exploration budgets and delay new projects as a result of low prices, but production from existing fields will continue and keep supplies high.” You can find gas in South Carolina below $2 a gallon and experts predict it will get lower. As the above line from
Charleston Post and Courier December 25, 2014 By David Slade Nuisance flooding in Charleston has increased fourfold since the 1960s, and it’s going to get worse as sea levels continue to rise, according to NOAA. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration says Charleston is among coastal cities that will have at least 30 days of
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My New Year’s prediction is that 2015 will be the year that the danger of rising sea levels as a result of climate change will become a more prominent issue. Below is a message I received today from a small business person in Charleston. The business is located on Church Street in Charleston’s historic Market. The
Saturday’s snow in South Carolina and other states not accustomed to seeing the white stuff in early November probably resulted in climate-change deniers making silly comments about the unusual weather being proof that there is no such thing as global warming. But Sunday’s AR5 report (Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) released
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