QUOTE, SNAP spokesperson:

“I’d like to point out that in Alaska, there are many government entities taking climate change seriously, as we are on the forefront of change. We may not all agree on the cause, but there is a general consensus that change is occurring because we typically live closer to the land and we see it.”
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Observant and sentient people who live close to the land anywhere (not just in the worst effected places) have been noticing the changes. Forest destructive timber caterpillars used to be a periodic temporary problem for a year or two here in the Catskill Mountains and then not return for many years, allowing the trees to reinvigorate themselves before the next attack. Now they’ve become a permanent problem, and like a cancer they seem determined to eventually kill their host. We just had two 1 in 500 year probability floods just a few weeks apart and at the end of Summer, not in the Spring. We get crop destructive hail storms before harvest time now. We’re regularly getting far more rain here than we want, while other regions desperately needing rain are getting none. Meanwhile, Halliburton’s frackers are coming here to permanently remove pure water from the natural water cycle and pollute the air, soil, waterways and watersheds of rural people not important to the City of Thieves (NYC) to rip tiny remnants of gas from stone (an environmentally insane process that the popular with Republicans Democrat governor’s energy policy and short-sighted economic austerity policy is near wholly dependent upon).

Yes, there are plenty of scientists, both in government and non-government agencies, documenting the acceleration of climate change and providing forecasts to assess the probabilities of whom will be effected where, in which way, and by how much. They provide advisories. They don’t determine what will be done.

Our collective people problem is that a near unanimous (99% R & D) supermajority of the electorate keeps providing popular mandates for the policy priorities of America, Inc. to be solely determined by corporate persons… sociopathic organizations.

If the evolving catastrophic climate change were being seriously treated with appropriate priority, by a human (and other species) condition concerned government, then, instead of permanently waging resource wars America’s globe dominating military would be disbanded, with all the person power and funding wasted there put to good purpose to earnestly and energetically provide a maximum effort to reverse or mitigate the adverse effects of climate change.

Note that, when the corporate party’s liberal Democrats had full official control of all the levers of power in both the Executive Branch and Congress, Obama’s EPA (Environmental Polluters’ Agency) briefly halted permits for Mountaintop Removal to “study” whether it might possibly have seriously adverse environmental effects… and then quickly MovedOn to continue permitting it, because Mountaintop Removal becomes “sustainable economic development” when Democrats permit it.

Anyone here really think the tar sands Keystone XL pipeline is going to be stopped by Obama whose “Justice” Department sought a 10 year prison term and $750,000 fine to persecute Tim DeChristopher, or be stopped by the EPA that regulates environmentalists to protect polluters?

The Goldman Sachs faction of the corporate party (Democrats) plan for climate change is to provide a market to profit from pollution swaps, while the glaciers all melt, the permafrost becomes impermanent, and our human habitable planet becomes uninhabitable for humans.

If the young don’t rise up soon and push their parents’ My Generation aside — with extreme prejudice — they won’t have a future worth having.

http://www.chenangogreens.org

Dying while hiking in the wilderness is a far better death than most people ever have… certainly better than dying in a hospital.

The only part of the government of America Inc. that’s seriously planning for climate change is the Pentagon.

In the Climate Wars currently be planned for, “natural catastrophes” will be weaponized — used as an effective means of exterminating enormous numbers of poor people considered global Market-State expendable.

The reason government isn’t taking climate change seriously is obvious. Those who have the means to accomplish it are surely planning to use a Final Solution to just in time eliminate Nature’s people problem… with the expectation that the most privileged few will then live happily ever after with far more resources to sustainably share among far fewer people.

http://www.chenangogreens.org

The wilderness is not Disneyland. Nature cares not for fools. There are no do-overs when you take risks. Be prepared for the consequences. Does it really matter if the raging water that was rushing under the bridge was caused by a warming climate or an unusually high snow pack ? If the situation was unsafe then those people shouldn’t have taken it upon themselves to cross.

Hear! Hear! wedemay!

Death in the Wilderness is not new to Americans, just Americans of this generation. We have allowed ourselves to become disconnected voyeurs of
the wreckage of nature and tend to not realize potential danger. Wilderness is supposed to be dangerous and we in tern are respectful of nature. Most of the people who die in the wilderness do so becuase they made assumptions based in a different paradigm, one of the urban environment. When your running trails or trying to rescue someone drowning it’s wise to remember your likely to die also. Wilderness does not come with safety rails and warning lights and crossing a raging waterfall is easily a life challenging action.

In the disintegration of meaning, culture, and the wild we project evil upon nature which should not be attempted to be Dammed, controlled or disrespected.

It is our very lack of relationship with nature that leads to the death of the environment and eventually humanity. Nature will recover eventually, if we stop soon enough and leave it alone.

Stop the logging and mine development in National Parks !  Enjoy and be careful !