Thursday, April 19 6 to 9 pm Sem II B1105 The Evergreen State College

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend! This event is free of charge. Please feel welcome to participate in our discussion following the panelists' presentations.

Learn about environmental justice impacts on tribal sovereignty, culture and resources; events in Oaxaca; the effects of corporate personhood on economic inequalities; health and human rights violations; climate change; the imperative connections between social justice and environmental activism; and much, much more.

Our panelists include... Shelly Vendiola of the Indigenous Environmental Network Lin Nelson, Health and Environment faculty at Evergreen Melissa Poe, Environmental Anthropologist on issues in Oaxaca Karen Coulter of the Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project ...and perhaps more!

Sponsored by the Environmental Resource Center (erc@riseup.net)

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With a tip of the hat to Real Climate.

Turns out global warming is not about CO2, it's about livestock.  Sheep to be more specific.

Here is the latest:

1 Apr 2007

The Sheep Albedo Feedback

 The already-reeling "consensus" supposedly linking climate change to CO2 is about to receive its final coup-de-grace from a remarkable new result announced in a press conference today by Dr. Ewe Noh-Watt of the New Zealand Institute of Veterinary Climatology [1]. Noh-Watt and his co-workers, describing work funded by a generous grant from the Veterinary Climate Science Coalition, declared "We have seen the future of climate -- and it is Sheep." Prof. Jean-Belliere Poisson d'Avril, star student of Claude Allegro Molto-Troppo (discoverer of the Tropposphere) reacted with the words, "Parbleu! C'est la meilleure chose depuis les baguettes tranchées!"

The hypothesis begins with the simple observation that most sheep are white, and therefore have a higher albedo than the land on which they typically graze (see figure below). This effect is confirmed by the recent Sheep Radiation Budget Experiment. The next step in the chain of logic is to note that the sheep population of New Zealand has plummeted in recent years. The resulting decrease in albedo leads to an increase in absorbed Solar radiation, thus warming the planet. The Sheep Albedo hypothesis draws some inspiration from the earlier work of Squeak and Diddlesworth [2] on the effect of the ptarmigan population on the energy balance of the Laurentide ice sheet. Noh-Watt hastens to emphasize that the two hypotheses are quite distinct, since the species of ptarmigan involved in the Squeak-Diddlesworth effect is now extinct.

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Come by the front of Batdorf and Bronson on April 28th for Procession to support SafePlace and eat delicious cupcakes! We'll also have B&B coffee for donation to Coffee Kids and many of your favorite people milling around with icing all over their face. 

All cupcake proceeds are to benefit SafePlace. Please remember, April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, now is the time to make a difference in your community!

 

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The Ladies of CADV

American military personnel have been dying at the highest rate yet over the last six months in Iraq. It's a sign that the situation is worsening there. Here's a story about one retired high-ranking military officer who considers the operations in Iraq to be doomed to failure:

Iraq: American public opinion vs. a "small but powerful group"
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- by Glenn Greenwald

In his important Washington Post Op-Ed this morning, Retired Marine Corps Gen. John Sheehan -- in the course of explaining why he asked not to be considered for the new post of "war czar" in the Bush administration -- has become the latest military expert to warn the country that our military and war policy in Iraq is destined to fail, because it is being controlled by a small band of propagandists who have no coherent strategy for ever leaving Iraq:...

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