Perhaps do one thing.

Posted by joyce Dann on December 22, 2009, 3:30 pm
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This was taken from an interview on Democracy now today with host Amy Goodman and James Hansen (James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He also teaches at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and has published his first book, Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity.) "AMY GOODMAN:The United States had just agreed to have a pipeline from the tar sands in Canada to the United States. AMY GOODMAN: In Alberta. JAMES HANSEN: Yeah, so they’re planning on actually burning those tar sands, which we can’t do. JAMES HANSEN: They’re among the dirtiest fossil fuels on the planet. There’s oil mixed in the ground with the sand. You have to cook that material to get oil to drip out of it. That takes a lot of energy to cook it. And then you end up with oil, which also has carbon. Then you burn the oil, and you get more carbon. So it’s much more carbon-intensive than oil itself." Perhaps we can write to one person in our respective governments to say "NO"!

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