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According to one NH newspaper, Global Warming is “Everyone’s Business”

-- Jim -- 02/22/2007

New Hampshire's Carroll County Independent newspaper weighed in this morning on Global Warming in an editorial in support of a resolution that will appear when over 180 towns meets across the state next month at town meeting. The resolution, put on town warrants by volunteers and organized by the Carbon Coalition, asks residents "to address the issue of climate change which is increasingly harmful to the environment and economy of New Hampshire and to the future well being of the people of [petitions fill in the individual town name]," sending results of the vote to the state's Congressional delegation, the President of the United States, and any declared candidates for those offices. It also supports establishment of a national program requiring reductions of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions while protecting the U.S. economy, and creation of a major national research initiative to foster rapid development of sustainable energy technologies.

The newspaper opined "Common sense says we can and do affect our environment. It has been demonstrated that green house gases trap heat in our atmosphere. It has been demonstrated that we are producing more and more of these gases, particularly carbon dioxide. If by some chance, part of the global warming phenomenon is caused by something other than human activity, that does not mean that human activities are not also playing a role. It would seem obvious that we can affect this issue by "cleaning up" our act, and equally obvious that we need to address this issue and that supporting the Carbon Coalition article will effectively help bring attention to it.

The goal of the Carbon Coalition is to have the resolution on Global Warming pass in at least 150 towns across the state. With the help of newspapers like the Carroll County Independent, that is likely to happen.