West Antarctic Ice Sheet – Speak Your Mind https://indianapublicmedia.org/speakyourmind/ Speak Your Mind from WFIU Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:00:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Just another Indiana Public Media weblog West Antarctic Ice Sheet – Speak Your Mind West Antarctic Ice Sheet – Speak Your Mind ebinder@indiana.edu ebinder@indiana.edu (West Antarctic Ice Sheet – Speak Your Mind) Copyright © Speak Your Mind 2010 Speak Your Mind from WFIU West Antarctic Ice Sheet – Speak Your Mind https://indianapublicmedia.org/speakyourmind/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg https://indianapublicmedia.org/speakyourmind/ Will Indiana Play Climate Spoiler? https://indianapublicmedia.org/speakyourmind/indiana-play-climate-spoiler/ https://indianapublicmedia.org/speakyourmind/indiana-play-climate-spoiler/#respond Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:51:40 +0000 https://indianapublicmedia.org/speakyourmind/?p=369 On June 2nd, the Environmental Protection Agency announced regulations to limit carbon dioxide pollution from the nation’s power plants, which are the largest single source of greenhouse gas pollution, accounting for 40% of total emissions. The New York Times reports that other nations, including China, will be studying these regulations to determine the scope of their own programs.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that climate change threatens the world’s food supply, endangering yields of wheat and maize, as well oceanic fish. Scientists recently found the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is melting, bringing a global rise in sea level that would flood coastal cities around the world and drive mass migration, as well as political conflict.

As a coal state, Indiana produces more carbon dioxide pollution than much more populous states such as New York, Illinois, and California. Indiana’s Congressional delegation protects the coal industry by trying to block carbon regulations. Even Senator Joe Donnelly, who calls climate change “the defining issue of our time,” wrote to President Obama asking for weak E.P.A. regulations on coal.

Indiana would pay a heavy price for being a climate spoiler: in lower crop yields; in storms; in liability as an enraged world held polluters to account; and in drastic adjustments which would be much cheaper if made now.

Pope Francis put it succinctly: “Safeguard Creation. Because if we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us! Never forget this!” I hope that Senator Donnelly, a Catholic, is listening.

Sources

The Guardian

The New York Times

National Resources Defense Council

The Hill

NBC Chicago

Think Progress

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