Activists: Action against global warming needed

O'Malley's office hints at stricter standards

By PAMELA WOOD, Staff Writer

Published 08/16/07

During a rally on sun-baked Lawyers Mall in Annapolis yesterday, activists and politicians called for Maryland to take serious actions to fight global warming.

Paul W. Gillespie - The Capital TOP: Arnold sisters Ella Wallace,5 , and Simmone Wallace,3 , carry a sign during a global warmingrally in Annapolis.
BOTTOM: Brad Heavner of the nonprofit group Environment Maryland urges the state Commission on Climate Change and the governor to support strict limits on carbon dioxide emissions.

Charging that it's time to "move from study to action," advocates are pushing for Maryland to commit to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20 percent by 2020 and by 80 percent by 2050. The reductions would be based on 2006 emissions levels.

"Doing nothing is no longer an option," said Del. Kumar P. Barve, D-Montgomery, the House of Delegates majority leader.

Mr. Barve and Sen. Paul Pinsky led a failed effort to pass a bill with similar goals in the...

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Myth? You decide - 2007-08-17 09:55:24

Great timing on this one, right after NASA figures were found to be incorrect and don't support any of the alarmism. Of course they very quietly admitted their mistake and posted the new results here: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D.txt

Which basically shows that the temperatures go up....and down and have no relation to increasing "greenhouse gases".

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Global warming petition - 2007-08-16 19:00:53

Thanks for covering the Aug 15 global warming rally. If people want to sign the petition to the governor urging him to commit to science-based reductions of global warming pollution, they can access it at https://www.environmentmaryland.org/action/global-warming/petition2

Brad Heavner

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