Talk about finding every reason to push the war on climate change. National Public Radio President Kevin Klose found a way to get at the sensibilities of southern California commuters - by telling them global warming will make driving even worse.
Klose was a panelist at the forum "Covering a Changing Climate: The Media Challenge" held at Harvard University in Boston, Mass., on April 30. He said the effects of climate change will include migration from the south and cause a U.S. population boom of 100 million people. Klose told the audience this would be the subject of a series on NPR.
"We're going to do a unique one-week series called ‘The Next Hundred Million,' because in the next 30 years, absent of anything else, there will be another hundred million people living inside the United States of America," Klose said.
According to Klose, the melting of icepacks in the Andes Mountains in South America and icepack melting elsewhere will draw immigrants into the United States. He also warned the infrastructure in the United States wasn't prepared to handle an additional 100 million people and pointed to traffic in Los Angeles as an example.
"[A]nd we're going to look at the entire set of infrastructure questions we face as Americans and try to focus - I don't know how many of you have been on the 10 or the 405 [freeways] in L.A. I think it is about 18 lanes across and it stops dead at any time of the day or night. What more is coming?" he asked. "We're going to try to get at this issue."
Klose, a former reporter for The Washington Post, was named president of NPR in 1998.
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Hasn't got today's memo
May 1, 2008 - 16:53 ET by 10ksnookerOnce the new ice age memo gets around, the next ice age solution will require the taxes that were allocated to solving global warming. So they got it covered.
CO2 doesn't drive temperature, it drives up taxes.
I am starting to
May 1, 2008 - 16:47 ET by voodoodaddybelieve Global Warming is real and is having an effect on the brain cells of those who believe it. They just keep getting dumber and dumber. Something got to be causing it.
Population growth was already exploding, Mr.Klose
May 1, 2008 - 16:58 ET by Gary HallPopulation growth was already exploding, Mr.Klose - and if you'd pay attention to what's been going on in this country just a little bit Kloser - oops, closer - you'd know that this population explosion was already predicted, and mostly from the impact of immigration and the offspring from the immigrants, without consideration of climate change.
And speaking of California's population growth; indeed it is going to be a problem for our infrastructure and the budget. In fact, the State of CA predicted back in 2000, General & Ethnic Population Projections Through 2050 that by 2050 we could expect 20 million more folks in what used to the called the Golden State. And you're correct, the folks are coming from south of the border, but not because of the weather, 18 million of the 20 million new residents are Hispanic; they're coming here because of economics - need. The 2007 report shows that the growth is greatly exceeding the predictions made in 2000.
Also of interest in the data, is the prediction that during this same period of time, the number of whites is expected to decrease by almost 3 million, which might suggest that the whites are going to be smart enough to run away from the crisis that awaits California.
He's wrong
May 1, 2008 - 17:18 ET by wizardjrWen Obambi or Shrillary grant amnesty there'll be 100 million more a year later - all the rest of Mexico that can walk, crawl, or drive here.
the melting of icepacks in the Andes Mountains in South America
May 1, 2008 - 18:27 ET by Gary HallJeff, I just had to go look for a bit more on this. Klose noted, "the melting of icepacks in the Andes Mountains in South America.."
A quick glance at the Andes, and I picked a spot right in the center of the continent long mountain range. Then I went to the temperature station map and clicked, and looked for the longest time temperature record I could find. The very first one I clicked on was Salta Aero, Argentina, a little place in the foothills of the Andes at just over 4,000 feet in elevation. And guess what? The temperature here appears to be in a very long cooling trend - it's about a degree and 1/2 C. cooler than it was back in 1901.
And the folks there don't seem to miss the glaciers, not a bit.
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"We're going to do a unique
May 1, 2008 - 19:15 ET by Darth Dutch"We're going to do a unique one-week series called ‘The Next Hundred Million,' because in the next 30 years, absent of anything else, there will be another hundred million people living inside the United States of America," Klose said.
And how many of those 100 million will be illegal aliens and the children of illegal aliens?
Darth Dutch