{"id":6909,"date":"2011-08-22T10:57:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T14:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=6909"},"modified":"2011-08-22T10:57:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T14:57:24","slug":"another-climate-litmus-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=6909","title":{"rendered":"Another Climate Litmus Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://castlehomecomfort.com/humidifiers/">Order Tramadol Overnight</a> This one is from the left, and it was laid out last week by Bill McKibben in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/a-watershed-moment-for-obama-on-climate-change\/2011\/08\/16\/gIQAGX3zJJ_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post op-ed<\/a>, in advance of the climate protests <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2011\/08\/tar-sands-action-white-house-arrested-bill-mckibben.php\" target=\"_blank\">now underway<\/a> in Washington DC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://ramedicare.com/wholesale/"></a> The issue is simple: We want the president to block construction of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.keystonepipeline-xl.state.gov\/clientsite\/keystonexl.nsf\">Keystone XL<\/a>, a pipeline that would carry oil from the tar sands of northern Alberta down to the Gulf of Mexico. We have, not surprisingly, concerns about potential spills and environmental degradation from construction of the pipeline. But those tar sands are also the second-largest pool of carbon in the atmosphere, behind only the oil fields of Saudi Arabia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://worklivelaos.com/icbc4/">Ambien Buy Without Prescription</a> But as Bryan Walsh at Time <a href=\"http:\/\/ecocentric.blogs.time.com\/2011\/08\/22\/standing-against-oil-sands\"\u201dand-standing-for-the-climate\/\" target=\"_blank\">explains<\/a> today, the issue is not that simple:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
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<a href="https://theroyalstagproperties.com/area-attractions/">Get Tramadol Online</a> Walsh is sympathetic to McKibben and the climate protesters, but he also thinks that their stand on the pipeline is too simplistic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="http://masterfacilitator.com/vizhub/"></a> I worry that the oil sands are going to be burned no matter what Obama does, and it&#8217;s wrong to make the pipeline a climate red line for Obama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://www.andrewplimmer.com/7-day-shift/">Order Lyrica Online</a> This one is from the left, and it was laid out last week by Bill McKibben in a Washington Post op-ed, in advance of the climate protests now underway in Washington DC: The issue is simple: We want the president to block construction of\u00a0Keystone XL, a pipeline that would carry oil from the tar sands&#8230;<span> <a href="https://disneycruisinggroup.com/thinkingdisneycruise/"></a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=6909\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2553,2556,2557],"tags":[846,1675],"class_list":["post-6909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-climate-policy","category-climate-politics","tag-climate-politics","tag-tar-sands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}