http://www.kansaswarming.org The future of Kansas in a warming climate. Thu, 14 May 2009 06:38:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One section of current Kansas law is "Statute 65-3012: Action to protect health or environment". The new Senate Substitute for HB2369 makes very substantial changes to that statute. Underlined portions are my emphasis: Current K.S.A. 65-3012: Statute 65-3012: Action to protect health or environment. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, the secretary ... http://www.kansaswarming.org/archives/44 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change (accessed 3-17-2009) National and international science academies and professional societies have assessed the current scientific opinion on climate change, in particular recent global warming. These assessments have largely followed or endorsed the IPCC position of January 2001 that An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of ... http://www.kansaswarming.org/archives/39 Rush for coal plants slows to a stagger By KAREN DILLON The Kansas City Star If the Sunflower Electric Power Corp. coal-fired power plants are built in Kansas — and that’s still an if — they could be among the last to go up in America for quite a while. Just a few years ... http://www.kansaswarming.org/archives/43 At least that is the heading as printed in the Kansas City Star, Feb 28, 2009. By DAVID KLEPPER and STEVE KRASKE The Kansas City Star TOPEKA | Last year, Kansas backers of coal-burning power plants were like Sisyphus in mythology, doomed to roll a boulder up an incline again and again. Lawmakers kept ... http://www.kansaswarming.org/archives/41 Recently Washington Post commentator George Will called the scientific consensus that we need to reduce carbon emissions a "hypothetical calamity" (printed Feb. 20 in Kansas City Star, Feb 15th in the Washington Post). He referred to a currently popular notion that climate scientists are fickle and as recently as the 1970s were largely warning ... http://www.kansaswarming.org/archives/42 With the defeat of the coal bill in last year's Kansas legislature, and a heavy work load for your author, Kansas Warming has been on hiatus. But the issue lives on, and we must find time to discuss this issue. Your author intends to make as much time as possible ... http://www.kansaswarming.org/archives/40 According to Overland Park Sun newspapers: Sen. Julia Lynn, R-Olathe, said CO2 emissions from the coal plants would be less than emissions from the proposed intermodal facility near Gardner. In a recent meeting with citizens, Representative Tim Owens (R-Overland Park) expressed a desire for more information on the Gardner Intermodal facility. Is Sen. ... http://www.kansaswarming.org/archives/38 Time and again your author has heard legislators mention a divide of sorts between the populous East, and the Western counties of the state of Kansas. We in the East have our coal-fired power plants now, so we can afford to suggest that Western Kansas not build another. Now consider another perspective--that the ... http://www.kansaswarming.org/archives/37 Steve Rose, publisher of the Johnson County Sun newspapers group, writes a regular column. The last deals with the coal-fired plant issue, and your author disagrees in some points of language and fact: Sun Newspapers Memo column: A matter of life and death Politics can be a powerful force, even when life ... http://www.kansaswarming.org/archives/36 The Johnson County area Sun newspapers carried this story this week: Coal-fired Colloton Legislator may change vote By: Katrina Segers, staff writer Wednesday, April 23, 2008 Every vote counts. With the House sitting at an 83-41 vote to approve two coal-fired power plants in western Kansas, a change in only one vote during the wrap-up session ... http://www.kansaswarming.org/archives/35