On September 18, Sen. Bingaman (D-N.M.) told a local activist that media
magnate Ted Turner visited his office to ask what he can do to convince
more senators to support climate legislation. Turner owns several vast
ranches
in New Mexico, established as wildlife preserves. “If we know something
about the problem and don’t do it,” Turner has previously
commented,
“then we don’t deserve to live.”
BINGAMAN: He came in this week to lobby me
on – or not lobby me really, but just basically talk about what needs
to be done to get some type of climate change legislation enacted.
He’s very committed on that issue, and part of what he’s taken on – I
mean he’s done an awful lot, as you know, with support for the United
Nations – but on climate change he’s committed as well. And he was
in here with some of his key people to talk about what he could do to
persuade more people in the Senate to assist with climate change
legislation.
“Stephen Ward, chief of staff for Senate Energy Committee Chairman Jeff
Bingaman, D-N.M, said Wednesday that lawmakers fear a ratepayer
backlash”
if carbon pollution is capped, telling “a room full of
alternative-energy financiers at the Lazard Capital Markets Alternative
Energy Investor Summit” that he foresees “a more modest bill” than
Waxman-Markey coming from the Senate.
Researchers have discovered that the Phragmites “super weed” emits toxic
chemicals to kill competitors, and “the poison becomes even more
toxic”
because of global warming’s effect on ultraviolet radiation.