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Why Americans shouldn’t work on climate change (Reason # 94 Debunked) Roscommon/Crawford Chapter Not long ago, my morning coffee drinking crew and I were working on the solutions to the world’s problems and I naturally brought up the issue of climate change. My grey-haired, grey-bearded friend with the colorful suspenders was among those scarfing down the free coffee. He seemed to take issue with my topic. He challenged my observation about fixing climate change with the comment that there was little we could do since other nations were the chief contributors to the problem and our efforts would be, by comparison, inconsequential. In his argument he used the old technique of asserting an obscure fact that none of the rest of us knew. He used reason # 94 saying that the chief polluters were China, India and other Middle...

Roscommon/Crawford Chapter Blog What's Happening Now Some of us in the Citizens Climate Lobby, Roscommon/Crawford Chapter follow the national news closely to in order to keep abreast of activities that affect climate change. It is hard duty since the noise created by media reports about this, that, and the other thing, gives rise to a cacophony of noise worse than a fifth-grade band. One little-known nugget to appear recently was almost hidden amidst all that noise. We think it deserves more attention since it is so egregious. Apparently, the national media think this ‘behind the scenes’ affair in national politics is too piddling to get first-order headlines. It concerns the failure of the federal government to follow the rules of law that have been established to protect our environment. The bulwark of much of our law for air pollution lies in the requirements of the Clean Air Act. The Act was first passed by c...