SoObamaStopsThePiplelineThenWhat?
Channel: Michael Litle
Date: 08/04/2013

Interviews with people who greeted Obama at a fundraiser in Pacific Heights to urge a Veto on the XL Pipeline.  This short doc asks seven activists  "How am I decreasing my carbon footprint" & "What comes after the pipeline is defeated?"  

The science is clear - climate change accelerates burning fossil fuels pumps CO2 into the air.  http://math.350.org/  We are at 380 now.  Serious droughts last year set corn & wheat yields back.  World wide scientific consensus of the human causation is nearly unanimous.  To clear up any doubts, read The Ice Chronicles for the detail on a method of research that proves this current shift in climate is much faster than earlier ones in Earth's history.  As the blanket of CO2 thickens global climate conditions will shift.  If we continue with business as usual, he .08 degree Celsius rise in global average temperature since 1970 will continue until we reach 2 degres (3.7 fahrenheit) by 2050.  

An oil-man, President George W. Bush actively suppressed the federal expert. Watch http://everythingscool.org to meet the front men of the disinformation war (which continues (Epstein), as well as those who fought it.  Between 2000 & 2008 the number of Americans concerned about the issue dropped from six people out of ten down to four out of ten.  To disbelieve that the earth is fighting back against civilization is more convenient than to believe it.  

The swaying of the public was enough to sway some weak-kneed politicians that would have accepted the science.  Those politicians are targeting by Big Energy with campaign contributions.   Do the math.   

On the corner of Broadway & Broderick, two blocks East of the Getty Mansion, some 500 arrive to show their blue banners "Veto the XL Keystone".    At 4PM additional police arrived to redirect the peaceful demonstration out of sight from the Getty Mansion where President Obama spoke to raise money for Nancy Pelosi. Moved a block uphill where four television trucks were parked just as the fog arrived.  They reformed on the corners where Pacific crossed Baker & Divisidero, to catch the President's caravan passing.  

Several well-expressed key points: without Congressional approval, the President  can empower the EPA to shut down coal plants.  The Director of the Sierra Club's campaign Beyond Oil, cites a Carnegie Study that shows jobs will grow 3 to 1through making the power grid more efficient, creating alternative power sources (wind & solar-farms) and as homes & buildings get retrofits to conserve energy.