NASA Scientist Helps Teens Sue Government over Climate Change

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NASA Scientist Helps Teens Sue Government over Climate Change

The group is behind a number of other lawsuits filed against state governments, including Alaska and

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Arizona, based on the same legal reasoning and with other young plaintiffs, according to Olson.

"We have kids in Alaska who are seeing their glaciers melting and their homes becoming unstable because of the melting permafrost, and kids in Arizona where it is becoming hotter and drier. … They are already experiencing drought and less ability to grow their own food," she said.

The federal lawsuit discusses how the individual teenage plaintiffs have been or will be affected by climate change. For example, if no change is made to our current rate of greenhouse gas emissions, within 16-year-old plaintiff Alec L's lifetime, sea level is expected to cover the waste water treatment center, the power generating station, the freeway, beaches and hundreds of homes in his hometown, Ventura, Calif.

"Our atmosphere must be returned to equilibrium of less than 350 parts per million (ppm) carbon dioxide to prevent heating beyond 1.8 Fahrenheit (1 Celsius), which scientific analysis deems catastrophic. Our atmosphere is now at approximately 390 ppm," according to the suit. (Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas because it is the most abundant and exccess carbon dioxide can remain in the atmosphere for millenia.)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110510/sc_livescience/nasascientisthelpsteenssuegovernmentoverclimatechange


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No matter how late it is on Global Warming -- the American public has to wake up

and understand what is being taken from them -- !!

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1. K&R

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2. Sue the GOP!!!! Because THEY are responsible for putting our lives at risk!

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3. Unfortunately BOTH parties are keeping the reality of Global Warming from the public ...

granted the GOP are our major destroyers -- but talking about small changes

in pollution is meaningless. We have to STOP burning fossil fuels and we've

known that since 1950's!!


Tens of billions were spent by the oil industry in lying to the public -- and

they succeeded!!

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4. true....