Global warming -- and whether it is man-made or a natural, recurring phenomenon -- is the topic of this year's Wyoming Forum, to be held in Casper Nov. 20 and 21.
The forum, a Wyoming Heritage Foundation event, is the foundation's 26th annual meeting. The public forum is attended by business leaders, elected officials, federal, state and local government representatives, educators and the general public.
Speakers include authors Bjorn Lomborg ("Cool It") and Dennis Avery ("Global Warming: Unstoppable Every 1500 Years"), and Nikki Roy of the PEW Center on Global Climate Change.
According to the release from the foundation, rigorous debate will take place among the speakers.
"There is no question that climate change, or global warming, is a hot topic," said Mike Caballos, chairman of the Wyoming Business Alliance and Wyoming Heritage Foundation. "Most people have strong feelings about it, with the majority believing it's related to human activity power plants, automobiles, industrial manufacturing, etc. But what if it isn't or that the cost to lessen it are beyond reach? That's a question worth debating".
The debate and cost of solutions will accelerate rapidly as years progress, the release said, and as the nation's leading coal-producing state, Wyoming must be prepared to face ongoing challenges with global environment.
"If global warming persists, our state's tourism industry, mountain forests and glaciers, and agriculture and water supplies would be impacted," said Wyoming Business Alliance and Wyoming Heritage Foundation President Bill Schilling in the release. "If climate change legislation, regardless of science or projections, is passed -- which is a high degree of probability -- coal production in Wyoming could decline by as much as 40 percent, costing the state 8000 jobs and $360 million yearly in state and local tax revenues by 2030."
For more information about the forum, call (307) 577-8000 or email wyba@qwest.net.
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Mac wrote on Nov 17, 2008 9:29 AM:
I guess that means we won't have to hear the likes of Al Gore and Harry Reid condemning our coal any more. Maybe we can all sit under a single fluorescent bulb at night.
Which has a greater impact on us:
1. A "theory" that man is causing the temp of the earth to increase about 1/2 degree per CENTURY, or
2. The fact that "cap and trade" (or Tax and trade) will increase our cost of living tremendously from heating our homes, powering our cars, and producing what little we still make in this country
I say #2 is a much bigger threat to our way of life. "
o no wrote on Nov 17, 2008 4:16 PM:
Global Warming Debunker wrote on Nov 17, 2008 6:18 PM:
Actually, if Gore shows up, the Gore Effect will come into play and the temperature will plummet.
urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gore+Effect
1. Gore Effect
The phenomenon that leads to unseasonably cold temperatures, driving rain, hail, or snow whenever Al Gore visits an area to discuss global warming. Hence, the Gore Effect.
- Australia, November 2006: Al Gore is visiting two weeks before summer begins. The Gore Effect strikes: "Ski resort operators gazed at the snow in amazement. Parents took children out of school and headed for the mountains. Cricketers scurried amid bullets of hail as Melburnians traded lunchtime tales of the incredible cold." (The Age)
- New York, March 2004: "Gore chose January 15, 2004, one of the coldest days in New York City's history, to rail against the Bush administration and global warming skeptics... Global warming, Gore told a startled audience, is causing record cold temperatures." (NY Environment News)
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Information about the latest Hansen/NASA scientific blunder about "October being the hottest on record":
telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/11/16/do1610.xml "
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