Al Gore Hosts One of Many Green Inaugural Balls
The date which has been on bumper stickers for years now – 1.20.09 – has never been nearer. And for most environmentalists, it brings with it the best-case scenario, so it’s no wonder that most of the planning for inaugural pre-parties included significant considerations for the planet.
The major festivities include tomorrow’s carbon-neutral, green-tie Green Inaugural Ball: Maximum Celebration, Minimal Impact. The venue was chosen for its location a half-block from a Metro station, and attendees are asked to take public transit to the event. Food and drinks will be organic and will include vegetarian and vegan options, and lighting will be LED. After the guests go home, everything that can be will be composted and recycled.
Al Gore’s Green Ball: Inauguration of a New Green Economy will happen on Monday; representatives from more than two dozen environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, will attend.
Tomorrow, on the other coast, the L.A. enclave of Santa Monica will put on a “plug-in parade” of 55 ecofriendly cars to get the festivities started, and to congratulate Obama, who has called for a million plug-in cars to be on the road by 2015.
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Read this press release from NASA and download a copy to your hard drive. The global warming people will have this censored for sure. Here is the link:
www.science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/23sep_solarwind.htm
This is hard science and not a "computer model." This is totally unheard of and NASA admits they can't explain it. This never happened before.
Highlights:
"The average pressure of the solar wind has dropped more than 20% since the mid-1990s,"
"The change in pressure comes mainly from reductions in temperature and density. The solar wind is 13% cooler and 20% less dense.
- "13% cooler"
"What we're seeing is a long term trend, a steady decrease in pressure that began sometime in the mid-1990s," explains Arik Posner, NASA's Ulysses Program Scientist in Washington DC.
How unusual is this event?
"It's hard to say. We've only been monitoring solar wind since the early years of the Space Age—from the early 60s to the present," says Posner. "Over that period of time, it's unique. How the event stands out over centuries or millennia, however, is anybody's guess. We don't have data going back that far."
This explains all the new record low temperatures and the record snowfall.