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A Sustainable Oregon |
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Equal opportunity for all Oregonians |
Putting average citizens first in all government actions |
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Maximize Oregonian's standard of living |
Government encourages, rather than inhibits competition |
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Maximum access to plentiful jobs |
Government that welcomes all non polluting industries |
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Fast and low cost transportation that is self financing |
Ending government discrimination against cars. |
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Maximum opportunity for jobs creation |
Limit regulations to those for safety and fraud prevention |
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Government based on sound principles and science |
Outreach to ordinary people not special interests |
Are glaciers melting? Yes! But:
Look closer -
They have been slowly melting since, at least, the little ice age. In the 1930s the melting rate increased dramatically. Most of the melting occurred in that period. Slow melting resumed after the 1930s.
Claims of rapid glacier melting are 80-
Most Glacier Melting was in the 1930s
Greenland ice sheet the summer average temperature has decreased at the rate of 2.2 ◦C per decade
Figure 1. The summer (diamonds), annual (triangles) and the winter (crosses) temperature (http://www.giss.nasa.gov/data) and their five year running means at Greenland stations. The slope of the least squares linear fit to each 1950–1999 data set suggests generally decreasing summer temperature at each of the stations (Table 1).
(Climatic Change, Volume 63, Numbers 1-
Since 1940, however, the Greenland coastal stations data have undergone predominantly a cooling trend. At the summit of the Greenland ice sheet the summer average temperature has decreased at the rate of 2.2 ◦C per decade since the beginning of the measurements in 1987. This suggests that the Greenland ice sheet and coastal regions are not following the current global warming trend. A considerable and rapid warming over all of coastal Greenland occurred in the 1920s when the average annual surface air temperature rose between 2 and 4 ◦C in less than ten years (at some stations the increase in winter temperature was as high as 6 ◦C). This rapid warming, at a time when the change in anthropogenic production of greenhouse gases was well below the current level, suggests a high natural variability in the regional climate.
(Climatic Change, Volume 63, Numbers 1-