Arkansas Blog

Thanks for posting this. The AT is one of the few avenues, if not only avenue, for bringing this type of info to the public sphere.

Relevantly, James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute headlined a Washington Post article. James Hansen sounded the alarm on global warming over 20 yrs ago, and his stature was raised when the Bush administration tried to silence him. He believes we are within ten years of the tipping point, if we have not passed it already, where any efforts to curb global warming will be nearly impossible.

His solution: phase out coal completely in next 2 decades.

Here's a snippet of the article on James Hansen addressing the National Press Club and House Committee on Global Warming:

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WP, 6/24/08

Here's something to ponder as you park your Prius: What if gas guzzling isn't the problem?

That rather counterintuitive theme emerged yesterday from a visit to Washington by James E. Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute and one of the first to sound the alarm about global warming in a congressional hearing 20 years ago yesterday. As he undertook a commemorative, I-told-you-so tour, from Diane Rehm's radio show to ABC News to the National Press Club to the House of Representatives, he made a point of saying the biggest worry isn't what we put in our cars, but what we put in our power plants.

"Practically, I don't see how we can stop putting the oil in the atmosphere, because that's owned by Russia and Saudi Arabia," he advised the House committee on global warming. "We can make our vehicles more efficient, but that oil is going to get used and it's going to get in the atmosphere . . . and it doesn't really matter much how fast we burn it. But what we could do is stop the coal."

The theme was much the same at the press club, where he gave a luncheon speech. "CO2from oil is going to get into the atmosphere," he said, because "you're not going to be able to tell Saudi Arabia and Russia, the countries that have oil, not to sell their oil." Hansen's solution: "Phase out coal as promptly as is practical."

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Just for full disclosure: I ain't aligned with or a member of any environmental groups of any kind--yet.

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MEMBERS OF ARKANSAS PCEC

Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission website:
http://www.adeq.state.ar.us/commission/default.htm

Thomas Schueck- Chair

William Thompson - Vice Chair

Lawrence Bengal
Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission (Director)

Scott Henderson
Arkansas Game & Fish Commission
(Director)

Darwin Hendrix

Charles McGrew
Arkansas Department of Health

Dana Samples

John T. Shannon
Arkansas Forestry Commission
(Director)

Lynn Sickel

John Simpson

Ephrain Valdez

Bekki White
Arkansas Geological Commission
(Director)

Randy Young
Arkansas Natural Resource Commission
(Director)

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Mini Biography on Tom Schueck:
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Thomas Schueck, chairman of PCEC

He owns Lexicon Inc (http://www.lexicon-inc.com/), a company that has the "unique capability of fabrication, erection, and mechanical installation services." Lexicon Inc has several subsidiaries, including:

Schueck Steel
http://www.schueck.com/
501-490-4200

L-Con Constructors
http://www.l-con.com/
281-484-5266

Prospect Steel
http://www.prospectsteel.com/
501-490-2300

L-Con Engineers and Constructors
http://www.l-coneandc.com/
281-484-5266

Custom Metals
http://www.custom-metals.com/
501-490-4400

Heritage Links
http://www.heritage-links.com/
281-866-0909

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I know nothing about Schueck, but the missive mentions he is a steelmaker.

Is his company providing structural steel (or other material/manpower/knowhow) to the Hempstead Cty. project?

Such projects are lucrative to structural suppliers as much material is needed.

These people deserve nothing but contempt AND emails, phone calls, whatever urging them to MOVE INTO THE 21st CENTURY!!! Is there a state which has more pathetic "public servants?" (rhetorical)
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