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  Saturday, March 8, 2008


NYT: "Senator Barack Obama continued his string of victories in caucus states on Saturday, beating Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in Wyoming by a wide margin.

"The victory, while in a state with only 18 delegates, was welcome news for the Obama campaign as it sought to blunt Mrs. Clinton's momentum coming off her victories in Ohio and Texas on Tuesday. Mrs. Clinton had campaigned here Friday, a day after her husband and daughter, signaling the stakes every contest holds in the fierce battle for the Democratic nomination.

"Party officials reported extremely high turnout at caucus sites across the state. More than 1,500 residents of Laramie County came to cast votes at the caucus site in downtown Cheyenne, filling the auditorium. Hundreds more waited outside for hours until they could enter and vote."

Here's a roundup from The Moderate Voice.

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We're getting ready to head out to the second day of the 13th Annual Wallace Stegner Symposium, Alternative Energy: Seeking Climate Change Solutions. Yesterday was exhausting in some ways, so much data, so many ideas.

For example, our new friend Kevin from Salt Lake was spreading optimism at lunch yesterday. He reminded a skeptical Ol' Coyote that all three presidential candidates that are left have acknowledged that climate change is real and they have said that action will be a priority in the next term. Being from Salt Lake Kevin would only talk about John McCain but that's OK.

Action is the underlying theme of the symposium. Every speaker underscored the need to act soon, as one planet, to head off the worse effects of warming. Most agree that serious carbon dioxide action is required in the 2010 to 2015 time frame and that carbon emissions need to fall by leaps and bound starting around 2050. Speakers kept showing essentially the same slide from the IPCC's report released last year. (Click on the thumb above for one example.)

One very serious note came from Dr. Terry Root a lead author of the recent IPCC report. She warned that with the amount of heating from carbon already in the atmosphere that we will probably lose 20-30% of animal species no matter what action is taken, putting the world into the 6th mass extinction, all from one species, humankind. The critters can't adapt quickly enough.

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