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ok, here I am asking a question of Gov Gregoire and Candidate Dino Rossi in the WA state governor's race. please go to youtube and watch the video and give it a good rating so that it's picked as one of the final 5! (and make fun of me later...) Even if you don't live in the state, you can still vote on the video :-)

Quoted: Sudha, from Spokane asks: Do you believe that global warming is caused by human activities? If so, do you support science based and enforceable caps to limit...

Released our Legislative Scorecard today! This is the tool to use to find out how legislators in Olympia are performing on the environment.

Quoted: Washington Conservation Voters is proud to release the Legislative Scorecard 2007-2008 - your personal reference on the effectiveness of legislators on environmental issues. This is the tool that holds legislators accountable on the issues that you care about. The Washington State Legislature achieved significant progress on many environmental issues in 2007 and 2008.

the differences between obama and clinton on energy seem small until you look at nuclear. obama supports it and clinton has a better stance of wanting to figure out the waste storage and other problems before advancing it further. This is a huge deciding factor for me. I definitely don't want a pres who is going to replace global warming pollution w/ nuclear pollution.

interesting... global warming is gaining ground!

Quoted: The changing politics of global warming will be a useful gauge to measure change in Washington.

short, interesting article on the need for cap and trade (from an industry exec)

Quoted: I am a carboholic. As Americans, we are all carboholics, but I am more so than most. The company I run, NRG Energy, emits more than 64 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) into the atmosphere each year -- more than the total man-made greenhouse gas emissions of Norway.

I'm glad it was shared with the UN Panel. Congrats Al Gore!

Quoted: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Al Gore and to a United Nations panel for their work on global warming.

the best point in the article is towards the end -- it all comes back to people getting involved with government and being responsible for our democracy.

Quoted: So while faddism may influence people's marketplace choices, many still ask the million-dollar question: What will happen when the canvas bag-toting, hybrid car-driving, "green" credit-card-wielding (GE just announced a card with carbon footprint-reducing rewards) consumer goes to the polls?

"That's the key," says Jon Isham, a professor of international environmental economics at Middlebury College in Vermont. "That's where we need to go above and beyond the idea of a fad."

Quoted: Ecofriendly buying choices alone can't sustain America's lifestyle, experts warn – unless 'looking green' becomes 'voting green.'

Glacier retreat in the himalayas...this is really sad!

Quoted: Studying Indian glaciers offers a snapshot of the consequences of global warming for India and raises vital questions about how the country will respond to them.

Sign the petition to make WA a leader on global warming solutions!

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