I was sent this email (below) from Al Gore’s Repower America Campaign, with a request to “make it personal” by writing to every representative. Apparently they are worried about that dastardly oil lobby again. This paragraph caught my eye:
“Writing these letters is easy and important — and we’ll show you how. We will provide sample letters, talking points, and your Senator’s address — all you need to bring is a passion about the climate crisis and a commitment to America’s clean energy future.”
Well gosh, I can play letter motivator like Gore and play that game too. Here’s your chance to “make it personal” and write your own letter to the editor, and/or letter to your Senator. Unlike Gore’s followers, I won’t offer helpful hints, talking points, or sample letters, because you see there’s a backchannel network for newspaper editors to flag such letter campaigns so they don’t get published.
But if you write your own letter, in your own words, with no common talking points, or fill in the blank forms, chances are your letter will get published. As for legislators, they generally don’t read them, they just count “for and against” on issues. Just write what you know and are concerned about. Send the same letter to both. You can use the links provided by Gore’s website for mailing addresses.
WUWT readers have plenty of material to work with, have at it if you wish, and feel free to post letters in comments here. Or not. I’m only pointing out an opportunity, don’t feel obligated.
Here’s Gore’s call to action, WUWT has more than 10,000 visitors a day, so it should be easy to outdo their effort. Funny, they still think he’s the Vice President. – Anthony
Dear Friend,
On Monday, Al Gore made an impassioned call-to-arms for a clean energy revolution.More than 10,000 supporters like you joined the Vice President on a call to discuss the next steps in our fight for strong climate and clean energy legislation. Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown shared his positive perspective on prospects for bill passage in the Senate this spring, the need for grassroots supporters to get involved right now, and the difference you’re already making.
The U.S. Senate is in the process of drafting clean energy and climate legislation. But with lobbyists from big oil and their front groups whispering in Senators’ ears every day and corporate polluters pouring millions of dollars into ads, we have to fight back with all our strength to make sure we pass a strong bill this year.
We’ve heard directly from Senate offices that one of the most meaningful and effective ways to deliver a message to our elected officials is with a handwritten letter. And by sending a personal letter, we’re demanding that our Senators respond. Which is why we’ve set an ambitious goal: delivering over 150,000 handwritten letters demanding the Senate pass a strong bill this year!
Will you take a few minutes to listen to an update from Al Gore and write your Senator a personal, handwritten letter in support of strong clean energy and climate legislation?
http://cpaf.repoweramerica.org/lettersn
If there’s one thing our elected officials cannot deny, it’s the voice of their constituents.
Writing these letters is easy and important — and we’ll show you how. We will provide sample letters, talking points, and your Senator’s address — all you need to bring is a passion about the climate crisis and a commitment to America’s clean energy future.
So please take just a few minutes and write your Senator today.
The time is now. The revolution has arrived. And the voice for change is yours.
So please, make sure our Senators know that this time, it’s personal.
Thanks for all you do,
Dave Boundy
Campaign Manager
The Climate Protection Action Fund’s Repower America campaign
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The logo looks like it says “Repo America”.
At least Al Gore can be commended for truth in advertising.
Why bother replying to Al $$$ Gore in any way,who is a proven anti science propagandist for the purpose of enriching himself and his friends at the expense of others?
The real solution is to vote out the congressional morons who are so deep into the “green” propaganda in order to clear out the vomit and start over.The very fact that Cap & Trade baloney is not yet dead,is evidence of their emptyheaded thinking.
The two senators in my state are more of the same brain dead believers in the stupid AGW hypothesis,to bother writing them letters.
Uranium?
Why not THORIUM instead?
“toyotawhizguy (03:46:14) :
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Kadaka, pls. explain how is it possible to extract anything useful out of spent fissionable material? I would think that if this was possible, that somebody would have figured out how to do it already.”
Maybe kadaka means reprocessing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing
the german wikipedia has a nice picture about the fuel cycle
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiederaufarbeitung
Beware though that 90% of the waste still needs to be deposited as radioactive waste.
Undertaking the massive job of converting the power grid alone in North America will require billions of dollars and decades of research, development and implementation. Sounds like a pretty lucrative contract for any company that is selected to oversee this “revolution.”
The reason these folks are so organized and able to spend the time lobbying is because they are out of work and our nice President has extended their benefits for two years! Can you imagine having two years to sit on yer a$$ and do nothing but write letters and make phone calls for your parties benefit? It’s no wonder these people want healthcare to pass, they are among the 10% of Americans that lost theirs. And, with people like Al Gore reinforcing how the big bad corporate polluters and oil lobbyists are “whispering in the senators ears”, why wouldn’t these folks be appalled? Immigration reform? Yeah we need that too, just not what is being proposed. It goes on and on.
Big Al is just trying to fill the millions upon millions he is losing due to the recession and the loss of value of the carbon credits in the Euro market. I cannot believe people blindly follow this guy. THe honorary Dr. Gore. Mr. Nobel Peace Prize.
[snip]!
I’m not an American citizen and I don’t live in America. However you said this..
“Here’s Gore’s call to action, WUWT has more than 10,000 visitors a day, so it should be easy to outdo their effort. Funny, they still think he’s the Vice President.” – Anthony
Don’t all presidents retain their title? Does it apply for vice presidents?
I have no problem with people trying to clean up the environment,and we have undeniably benefited from the clean air act of 1970.
But I do have a problem with people like Al $$$ Gore and his money making band trying to push environmental solutions based on the idea that CO2 is a ….. (snicker) “pollutant” and a powerful warm forcing gas (it is not).And that we are in grave danger of a ….. (LOL) run a way warming trend,that mythical “tipping point” that are invented (something that has not happened in only 600 million years of the past) by people with an obvious vested interest.
I resent such people who are hijacking legitimate environmentalism and scientific activities to promote an insane greenie propaganda pursuit to enrich themselves.
The very word “Green” now produces an automatic negative reaction in my head and I resent having such an emotion,all because of people who are perverting the entire concept of rational thinking for the purpose of meeting the needs of the FEW!
I find the whole thing pathetic!
I don’t think letters from either side are going to matter. President Obama has already made clear what he is going to do with global warming by his actions through the EPA. Even if politicians in Washington are unable to pass Cap N Trade laws it won’t matter. Obama will do what he wants through the EPA, regardless if it’s Constitutional or not. But who knows, maybe a succeeding President will undo that.
Oh, I’ll write a couple, but I want you guys to know just how craven the
AGW alarmists are.
A nice young gentleman from thr Sierra Club knocked at my door one evening and asked me to sign a petition in favor of open spaces or somesuch.
He showed me that certain neighbors had signed so I did.
Later I started getting the Sierra club magazine, snet to my address but with the wrong name.
Then I got a long letter from my Senator thanking me for the impassioned letter that someone sent him about “climate change” using my address
and yet another variation on the same wrong name.
I was pissed. My poitical voice had been hijacked.
Someone was impersonating me and using my address to feign constituency and push an agenda I do not agree with.
So I googled the fake name. It wasn’t fake.
The name belongs to a well-connected West Coast Lawyer who represents the Audobon Society, Indian Tribes, and is a big member of the Sierra club.
So I emailed him.
He was nice about it but unconcerned that the Sierra club uses his name to legitemize their fake letter writing campaigns.
I wrote to the Sierra Club. No answer. But they DID stop sending
the glossy magazine with the pics of Polar bears on the cover.
These f&&ks will hose you, steal your name, they will do any kind of underhanded trick to get THEIR point across because they know better than you what’s good for you.
Can you say “Arrrggghhhh!” ?
DirkH (09:03:46) :
Maybe kadaka means reprocessing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing
(…)
Yup, that’s it! And from the brief reprocessed uranium article linked to there, one finds the link to the CANDU reactor article, said design being found in Canada and capable of rather directly using the “spent” fuel from US reactors. Here in the US we are spending money to bury money, and thinking it a good idea to spend more money on “clean renewable energy” instead! Madness!
(…)
Beware though that 90% of the waste still needs to be deposited as radioactive waste.
Note how much of our “dangerous nuclear waste” is stuff like a pair of latex gloves that once touched a nuclear material sample. As I’ve heard many times before, the radiation levels from coal ash from power plants (and homes) are quite a bit higher than the threshold the NRC sets for declaring something nuclear waste. Imagine what we are doing to our landfills just from discarded smoke detectors, by NRC standards.
Ref – Al Gore’s Brother (09:13:53) :
“The reason these folks are so organized and able to spend the time lobbying is because they are out of work and our nice President has extended their benefits for two years! Can you imagine having two years to sit on yer a$$ and do nothing but write letters and make phone calls for your parties benefit?….
Big Al is just trying to fill the millions upon millions he is losing due to the recession and the loss of value of the carbon credits in the Euro market…”
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Two points:
a. I doubt that the folks who are benefiting most from extended unemployment benefits are making phone calls for Fat Albert and his “Global Climate Change” ponzi scheme. I doubt Fat Albert’s fat cat, super liberal, Commie friends need any benefits –at least the one’s who didn’t get wiped out by Maddof.
b. I also find it hard to believe that Fat Albert lost any money on the recession or the loss of value of ‘carbon credits’ in the Euro market. This guy may look and sound stupid but that is just his cover. Don’t underestimate the Fat Man from Tennessee; he’ll be two steps ahead of the market and raking in the green stuff when Soros goes broke.
Never underestimate your enemy or your brother, it can be costly;-)
You think you have it bad …out here on the left coast I have Boxer, Feinstein, and Capps aka BFC. Sheesh!
Sort of pointless as you say, but I write anyway. All I ever get back is “Thank You Pablum” lefty talking points.
Ref – Marvin (09:41:14) :
“Funny, they still think he’s the Vice President.” – Anthony
Don’t all presidents retain their title? Does it apply for vice presidents?
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It’s more of a tradition thing. It might be a law -never know what they’re passing and signing unless it costs a trillion or more buckeroos anymore. But if you’re an “X” like Fat Albert, even tradition and the law go out the window. Bottom line – “There Can Be Only One”. Kinda like the King-Queen thing you folks have. Believe we learned that from y’all;-)
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Lawrence Solomon on nuclear:
Environmentalism is the religion of the left, commentators often pronounce: “The Church of the Environment,”……But those on the right, particularly in the U.S., have their own dogma, one that is equally irrational and that also hurts their cause. The religion of the right is Nuclear Power…..Not one nuclear plant, anywhere in the world, has ever been built without government subsidies of some kind…..Commercial nuclear power is the most heavily subsidized industry in the history of the world and the single biggest money-loser in the history of business.…..the commercial nuclear industry was a creation of government, launched in 1953 by the Eisenhower administration’s Atoms for Peace program. As early as 1957, Eisenhower learned through a report for the government’s Atomic Energy Commission that nuclear power was not commercially viable…..Fifty years on and the industry remains commercially unviable…..the Obama administration announced a loan guarantee of $8.33-billion to build the first new U.S. reactors in nearly 30 years. “This is only the beginning,” Obama declared…..Only the beginning, indeed. If those loan guarantees prove sufficient to bring nuclear power back from the dead, electric utility ratepayers face surcharges that could exceed $40-billion per reactor over the reactor’s life…..But even these sums wouldn’t be enough to make nuclear power commercially viable…..nuclear power is uneconomic. That larding the nuclear technology undercuts more deserving technologies, present and future…..conservatives have a faith that conquers all, a faith in nuclear power that sweeps aside their lesser faith in the marketplace.
http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2010/02/20/lawrence-solomon-faith-in-fission.aspx
I must contradict my earlier post from yesterday. A letter actually is rather important (just not if you happen to have Dick Durbin as your senator.
Years ago I did volunteer work for a politically active women’s rights organization. With my mind fogged over in a cloud of idiocy I actually thought it might be a good way to meet a young woman. Well, you know what the answer to that was (although the young ACLU attorneys we once met were quite attractive).
I did learn a few things, however since we did lots of volunteer work for candidates favorable to their cause. And 1 thing I learned was that a politician considers a hand written letter to be worth 30-35 votes. That’s a far bigger impact than a simple phone call to their office which I believe is simply counted as 1 vote for or against. Now, I agree that legislators don’t read these letters and the staff probably reads no further than necessary to find out the position, they will assume that 30-35 voters hold the same position. And count it that way
Pascvaks (10:27:36) :
Ref – Marvin (09:41:14) :
It’s more of a tradition thing.
True dat.
When introducing a former POTUS (or Veep) to a large gathering, use “Former President (or Veep)” and state his full name. At informal meetings, it’s permissible to address him personally as “Mr. President/Mr. Vice-President” when you’re speaking to him face-to-face, but Anthony is correct — Gore should have been identified as “Former Vice-President” in the e-mail.
Here’s my personal letter:
Dear Representative,
The scandal that is ClimateGate, the IPCC, Al Gore, AGW and the entire ignominious charade, is collapsing. High priests Mann, Hansen, Schmidt, Jones are defrocked, caught diddling the data and covering it up. Most pathetic is papal Pachauri fighting to remain on his crooked throne. The IPCC is now an inept political liability and after prosecution of its key personnel must be dissolved for the betterment of mankind.
The orthodoxy of the AGW church is sadly exposed. The fallow flacks that have looked the other way – government agencies, law enforcement, “science institutions” academics, are uncloaked by the hour. We are witnessing a colossal reformation… No, “reformation” is too generous. This is a wholesale dissolution of an old school brotherhood riddled with the cancer of corruption.
It is a good task. It is a big church. And sweeping it clean will take a while. But Spring is upon us, and hope IS eternal. Let the sun shine in.
Re: Amino Acids in Meteorites (10:39:36)
Boxcar-sized nuclear plants, the game changer.
Now we will see just how much over-regulation can drive up costs into un-profitability.
I have to apologize to Dave F and F Ross for my comments regarding writing to the insufferable Dick Durbin. Dave F is entirely correct, Durbin does need to get letters. And I used to think I had it bad but F Ross has led me to believe I’m actually somewhat fortunate. Except something unfortunate has happened to all of us: Chicago style politics has now come to Washington.
Tom Judd (10:44:54) :
(…) And 1 thing I learned was that a politician considers a hand written letter to be worth 30-35 votes. (…)
They also appreciate having the handwriting samples on file for comparison to any written death threats. 😉
Dr. P (03:21:43) :
“I am enamored of the LiFTR (Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactor) technology. I am uncertain why this isn’t being pushed more.”
Because it costs more than mining uranium. But the Koreans are working on that to the limits of the treaty signed between them and the US. See here:
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf81.html
As for waste reprocessing, that is done by the UK, Japan, Russia, and France, who do it for most other countries with commercial power plants. Another example of the US falling behind.
“Lawrence Solomon on nuclear:
“But those on the right, particularly in the U.S., have their own dogma, one that is equally irrational and that also hurts their cause. The religion of the right is Nuclear Power…..Not one nuclear plant, anywhere in the world, has ever been built without government subsidies of some kind…..Commercial nuclear power is the most heavily subsidized industry in the history of the world and the single biggest money-loser in the history of business.”
That is innumerate baloney. Nuke power plants have a high cost to build and a low cost to operate compared to fossil burners, especially natural gas plants. Nukes have a gross income of about $4 billion per year and the loans are repaid from operating income. They need government loan guarantees because the private sector is afraid to invest in a new plant that may
be stopped by an environmental lawsuit. It costs about $4B to build one most places around the world, and about twice that in the USA because of the legal system.
There are currently 53 large nuke power plants being built around the world, and not a single one in the USA (if you don’t include the one TVA restart). Even the Ukraine has a higher fraction of its power generated with nuke plants than the USA in an effort to get out from under Russian gas imports. They even ran the other 3 units at Chernobyl for many years until EU accession rules forced them to shut down that old Soviet RBMK design. Yes, THAT Chernobyl, the one that had an accident with fatalities equal to about one average year coal mining.
Awhile back, I sent this letter to the editor of my local paper here in SoCal, the Antelope Valley Press. It was published.
An arm of the government has declared humans in the Sacramento Delta a hazard to smelt, so humans now have some sort of sin to atone for in doing everything possible to make life pleasant for the smelt, even at serious economic cost to humans. I hope the smelt are appreciative.
Almost at the same time, a different arm of the government has declared a bi-product of human respiration (CO2) a hazard to humans.
It seems logical then we could take care of two problems at once: stop respirating to reduce hazard to humans, thus reducing number of humans, thereby leading to a better environment for smelt! Additional benefit is humans won’t be around to feel guilty about smelt treatment in the past.
Amino Acids in Meteorites (10:39:36)
Dan in California (13:47:12)
The fact that the Nuclear industry has been heavily subsidized is precisely the point that was emphasized on the Stossel show. But all of this went to 3rd gen plants, with large expensive safety equipment, higfgh pressure containment vessel and extremely dangerous waste products.
In contrast the LiFTR technology is passively safe, low pressure (so much so that it can be aited colled and so does not need to be located near water), is unsuitable for nuclear weapons production, produces far less radioactive waste both in volume and in radioactive lifetime and can burn the waste of 3rd gen plants (bye bye Yucca mountain).
See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZR0UKxNPh8an actually burn the waste of the
(sorry glitch)
Amino Acids in Meteorites (10:39:36)
Dan in California (13:47:12)
The fact that the Nuclear industry has been heavily subsidized is precisely the point that was emphasized on the Stossel show. But all of this went to 3rd gen plants, with large expensive safety equipment, high pressure containment vessel and extremely dangerous waste products.
In contrast the LiFTR technology is passively safe, low pressure (so much so that it can be air cooled and so does not need to be located near water), is unsuitable for nuclear weapons production, produces far less radioactive waste both in volume and in radioactive lifetime. It can also burn the waste of 3rd gen plants (bye bye Yucca mountain).
See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZR0UKxNPh8an actually burn the waste of the