"Common Voices" on Global Warming
Submitted by larry on April 17, 2006 - 11:32am.
Bob Casey | ClarkCast | Global Warming | Wesley Clark
It's Monday. That means we have another ClarkCast!
Continuing on our theme on Global Climate Change, this week's ClarkCast has voices from America discussing the impact global warming is having on their lives. Earth Day is coming soon, so have a listen.
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Listen to "Common Voices" on Global Warming and discuss it here.
[Update] Also, I wanted to thank everyone who took the time to call in to record their pieces. If you didn't make it in this time, there will be many other opportunities.
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so what am I doing wrong?
How great must our failure be until we turn in panic and disgrace to a Man of Honor? - Quigley
This is not a time for a candidate who will offend no one; it is time for a candidate who takes clear stands and kicks ass.....Molly Ivins
Are either of you subscribed to ClarkCasts? Or are you just hitting direct download?
Also, what browser are you in?
I can't replicate the problem. I pulled it down fine using Firefox.
IE browser Larry, and not subscribed
How great must our failure be until we turn in panic and disgrace to a Man of Honor? - Quigley
I subscribed back when you posted the first Clarkcast. And yes, clicking on 'direct download'
This is not a time for a candidate who will offend no one; it is time for a candidate who takes clear stands and kicks ass.....Molly Ivins
This is not a time for a candidate who will offend no one; it is time for a candidate who takes clear stands and kicks ass.....Molly Ivins
Stan, in iTunes, if you hit the update button on the upper right, while you're in your ClarkCast page, it should pull it down. Also, the 90-second preview occurs when you double click on the title I think. To get the whole thing, you have to click the button that says "Get File" or something like that.
You folks probably already know of the problem, Larry, but just in case, here's what comes up for me when I click on direct download:
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And iTunes also gave me a message that the file couldn't be played.
I'm very much looking forward to that one too! Good idea to mention what's up next at the end of the current one... very helpful.
it doesn't seem to want to play for me? 
I haven't had this problem in the past. Hmm....
"COUNTRY before Party!" -- Wes Clark
I'm subscribed -and thought it was okay, but it seems to shut off just as ms says "I'm a huge lover of nature..." about 30 seconds in, about the size of an itunes song "sample"- where it lets you listen to a sample for 30 seconds but then you have to buy the song.
Is that Lara doing the intro??! I like the addition of the music.
To get the full message, you need to click on "get episode," or "get" depending where you are. It's still free.
but if I've bothered to subscribe, why would I merely get a "preview?"
In my mind & literally, I've already indicated "I'm in, I want it" by subscribing, no? Am I missing some logic here or have I mistakenly subscribed to a preview mode? ( I only want "the Full Monty!")
I think that's just two modes that they have for every podcast - you can listen to a preview (by just clicking on the row featuring that podcast) to see if you want to listen to the whole thing, perhaps?
I don't know, ;-). I'm a subscriber too, and whether I want it or not there is both the preview mode and the "full monty" mode, ;-), which you get when you click "get episode" on that same row.
I didn't realize that either the first time, partly because, for me, I have to scroll to the right to even see the "get episode" button.
At first, I thought it was a malfunction/unintended truncation.
I was always having problems with it cutting off in iTunes so I would end up downloading direct. Just noticed the 'get' button. LOL
This is not a time for a candidate who will offend no one; it is time for a candidate who takes clear stands and kicks ass.....Molly Ivins
Eventually, when iTunes updates, it should automatically download the podcast. Thus if you just open iTunes and are connected to the Internet, it will pull the whole podcast down without doing anything else.
actually, no. it shouldn't work that way. i never click get. iTunes always pulls down the whole thing for me. i don't click any buttons except update or just simply opening my iTunes software.
How great must our failure be until we turn in panic and disgrace to a Man of Honor? - Quigley
Rising floodwaters threaten Balkans
Floods threatened cities and fertile lands across Serbia, and record water levels in one of Europe's longest rivers surged downstream toward neighbouring Romania and Bulgaria today.
In Serbia, emergency crews and volunteers struggled to keep embankments and sand barriers from giving way as the Danube river's water levels started to recede. Meanwhile, the Tisa river, which flows from Hungary in the north, started rising dramatically.
Thousands of civil protection workers and soldiers in Romania and Bulgaria were working to bolster dikes and build new ones. The peak of the Danube floodwaters was expected to reach the two Balkan countries in the next few days.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1755510,00.html
very pertinent- & really ties into the point of view that environmental threats pose security issues on many levels for all humanity.
I think Vedran lives in Croatia. The areas getting flooded are Serbia and there abouts. I got a letter from my friend in Amsterdam saying several people he knows have had to evacuate their houses in Germany due to flooding.
1,000 Miles of Devastation
The worst Danube floods for a century have brought chaos to three countries
<!-- main story start-->THE Blue Danube of legend was yesterday a torrent of brackish floodwater after it burst its banks in Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria, causing widespread destruction and raising fears of mass evacuations.
Romanian officials began a programme of controlled flooding, after the Danube reached its highest levels for more than a century, to prevent low-lying villages being submerged.
The floods have been caused by high rainfall and melting snow from the harsh Balkan winter. Hundreds of houses have been flooded in the region and thousands of people have been made homeless.
In Romania the waters flowed at a record rate of 15,900 cubic metres per second. The normal flow for this time of year is 7,900 cubic metres per second.
“We are going through an unprecedented situation. Romania has never had such water levels,” said Madalin Mihailovici, director of the Agency for Romanian Waters.
Tens of thousands of hectares of farmland have been deliberately submerged after Romanian officials breached a dam and declared the move an initial success.
“The water flow has fallen by 200 metres per second. This is a success,” said Beatrice Popescu of the Environment Ministry. The effort was aided by the collapse of a dam in southwest Romania, which flooded nearby farmland.
Officials have commandeered tractors, bulldozers and other vehicles, but efforts have been hampered by the legacy of last summer’s floods that caused widespread damage.
The Romanian-Serbian border region, where the Danube forms the frontier between the two countries, has been badly hit. In the Romanian town of Bazias, the heavy rains and melting snow triggered a flood that covered 5,000 hectares (12,400 acres) on the Danube’s northern bank.
In Serbia, officials declared a state of emergency in ten regions as all four of its rivers, the Danube, the Sava, the Tisa and the Tamis, rose to record levels. Thousands of troops were deployed to build up defences against the waters and stack sandbags along the riverbanks.
The Agriculture Ministry said that 223,000 hectares (550,000 acres) were under water. Parts of Belgrade, the capital, where the Danube meets the Sava, have been flooded for days, and telephones in riverside areas have stopped working. Officials made a public appeal for local people to help to reinforce collapsing embankments.
Officials in the town of Smederovo, 39km (24 miles) east of Belgrade, were directing a frantic attempt to build new riverbanks for the Danube using heavy construction equipment and deploying hundreds of volunteers to pile up sandbags after its fortress, port and train station were flooded. The Danube reached more than 8 metres (26ft) above its highest-ever level, flooding at least 300 houses and forcing their inhabitants to evacuate. Sirens wailed over the eastern town of Golubac after the river burst its banks and flooded the city centre.
Bulgarian officials called on elderly people, children and women to evacuate the northwestern city of Vidin after the Danube’s waters reached a record level of 9.4 metres. Schools and municipal offices were closed, while Ivan Tsenov, the mayor, said that all 50,000 inhabitants should be prepared to leave if necessary.
Bulgaria asked neighbouring Serbia and Romania to restrict the release of waters at the Iron Gates dam on the Danube for fear of inundating Vidin.
I tried direct download today ..
got the error message ( I am subscribed and in past weeks
was able to use direct from the home page )
then I went to www.newsgator.com where I located the subscription and
I looped back to Clark home page and got access - heard today's podcast.
I used IE
You might consider have a feedback form to ask visitors what
they experienced when subscripting and finding podcast access.
BTW the production of the podcasts is quite good. Pleasant to listen to
interesting - vital - memorable.
This was happening in Houston today, too (as Carol, my sister, just mentioned to me), although we didn't know about it...
Here's the story (from Austin, although this was happening throughout Texas today):
http://www.kvue.com/news/top/stories/041706kvueblackouts-cb.45a48d91.html
Parts of Austin experienced power outages Monday afternoon due to rolling blackouts. Austin Energy told KVUE News the rolling blackouts were put in place because of a very high demand for electricity. The state's power grid, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT), released a statement and called it an emergency situation. Officials say there was not enough power generation to serve the demand, thanks to unseasonably hot temperatures and power plants out for maintenance. Blackouts were ordered for areas across Texas. Temperatures reached record highs for the second day in a row in Central Texas. The temperature at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA) reached 100 degrees by 5 p.m. The previous record, set in 1987, was 90 degrees. Temperatures across Central Texas were in the upper 90s and low 100s. Temperatures were expected to reach record highs again on Tuesday. Last month, energy usage was up six percent compared to March last year. So far in April, energy use is up 16 percent compared to last year. Customers have been asked to reduce their usage of power to the lowest level possible, including: -- Setting thermostats at 78 degrees or higher. -- Not using use any electric lighting, appliances or equipment unless absolutely necessary for health or safety. -- Not opening refrigerators and freezers more than necessary. ERCOT officials said they were working to return operations to normal. Austin Energy officials said they hoped the blackouts would end by 6 p.m. Monday. 
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3799542.html
A further example of Global Warming occurring *now*?
Has anybody received that chain e-mail about boycotting Exxon and Mobile?
I just got it again (first got the basic e-mail in '99, I believe).
It's actually being discussed in several places right now, such as on democratic underground, and The Oil Drum has a featured thread on it up now.
Well, there was a response that someone w/i TOD's thread posted, which was written by the poster's wife. And I very much appreciated it, so I sent it in response to the e-mail I had received.
This is from a reputedly "very nice gentle woman," ;-). I was reminded of our own Vicky from our Clark community upon reading it, for some reason (forgive me, Vicky, if you don't agree with the following thoughts - maybe it was her tone and how well she articulated her thoughts... and the courage she had in voicing them to folks who may well not appreciate what she had to say...).
Here's that response, as well as the link to her response w/i the larger thread:
http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/4/17/135253/457#27
But what does this do to address global warming which is already costing us plenty and is going to cost plenty more? And what about the day when we really do run out of petroleum, or at least that petroleum which takes less energy to extract than it yields? According to many, the day of collapse is coming faster than those giant corporations want us to believe, and by continuing to fixate on keeping prices low, we put off getting serious about developing long-term solutions.
In his book, "Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble", Lester Brown says that if the price of gasoline truly reflected what it costs to deliver it to your car, it would be over $11 per gallon. One has to include the cost of supporting corrupt regimes in places like Saudi Arabia, making war on Iraq, and committing other mischief around the world to secure the oil to support our highly wasteful lifestyle. If that squares with our values, then God help us.
Shifting ourselves to serious conservation initiatives while working to build a sustainable way of living is the best way to thumb our noses at the giant oil producers. If the 300 million people that the author of this message hopes to reach took conservation to heart, Exxon and Mobil would be in the solar and wind energy business tomorrow.
I only got the first 1:30 using iTunes, although the menus said is was 9:17, or something close. (Also, when I tried to download the newest version of iTunes, I got a blank IE screen, but nothing further happened.)
The direct download for the MP3 version didn't work at all. "Lieberated Syndicated" error or something I'd never seen before.
Stan Davis
Lakewood, CO
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