Hopenhagen & Tuvalu-- You can too!

I'm cross-posting this with my new blog: Geology du Jour, as it is important to reach as many people as possible with this message for change:

Some of the most endangered communities that will be inevitably threatened by the rising waters caused by the climate crisis are small island communities in the South Pacific-- like Tuvalu, for example. As a member of the Powershift Rapid Response team, which works to "connect the action at the climate negotiations in Copenhagen," I am greatly concerned about maintaining solidarity with the international progress that could take place to benefit every island, peninsula, or landmass.

Please, take a minute to make a phone call to the President's Comment Line:
Can you call President Obama right now at 202-456-1111.

Keep your message concise, and for your pleasure, here is the script I read from, but feel free to express how you stand with Tuvalu and call for a legally binding 350ppm limit in your own wonderful words.

"Hello, my name is ______. I'm live in ________/ I'm a student at __________. President Obama, over 500 youth in Copenhagen and thousands of youth back home are calling on you to ensure the future of small island nations like Tuvalu and the future of all generations. The US must play a lead role in securing a legally binding, scientific based deal that limits carbon pollution to 350ppm."

Tuvalu, a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean, called for an open conversation about a legally binding deal. Despite the request only being for the start of a conversation, several larger countries blocked the idea. Tuvalu is calling for a legally binding deal and has repeatedly called for a return to 350ppm carbon. We need to stand with Tuvalu. The Rapid Response Team is working to call President Obama right now. Can you call the White House to show your support for Tuvalu and a legally binding limit of 350ppm CO2 for a safe climate future. President Obama needs to lead, and we need to ask him to do this.

Thanks,
Ty

C'est NUL, ca.

It's so sad to find how and where your conservative ("but not right wing") parents syphon their worldview from... My dad has been talking about Hillary clubbing baby seals, and I finally googled the words verbatim.

Monica Crawley explains:
"Can the junior senator from New York now beat the junior senator from Illinois? Barack Obama's signature campaign line—"Yes, We Can!"—was delivered with a little less gusto last week. Hillary Clinton —aglow with primary wins that gave her candidacy a stay of execution—co-opted it for herself: "Yes, We Will!"
But will she? Can she? First, in order to win, she has to club the baby seal to death. Now that she's got some electoral momentum, she must bring Obama low. She must attack him on every front: preparedness; policy inconsistencies; his association with Tony Rezko and Louis Farrakhan, among others; his commitment to Israel."

How fascinating.

My father has become titillated by a blond bombshell with a conservative dictionary and a sharp-shooter tongue. I'll try to watch my words here, but her biography says:

"Monica holds two Masters degrees and a Ph.D. in international affairs from Columbia University and worked as a Foreign Policy Assistant to former President Richard Nixon from 1990 until his death in 1994. Crowley's experience with Nixon prompted her to write two best-selling books, Nixon off the Record: His Candid Commentary on People and Politics and Nixon in Winter."

Wow... working under Fox News, some plagiarism in her written work, and sexing herself up Ann Coulter style, what's not to love? What's not to take seriously?

Luckily, both my parents brought me up listening to John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou.