Our National Parks are celebrated worldwide, and we assume that our representatives want to keep them in pristine shape for generations to come – given that 86% of Americans of all stripes want to keep them free of oil and gas drilling. Just not Congressman Gosar, who’s received almost $250,000 from oil and gas interests in his last four election campaigns....
I think it says it all. Gosar is a Catholic in name only.
By Jesse Andreozzi
Apparently (click here) the recent rash of devastating floods, wildfires and rising temperatures in the Southwest isn’t enough for Arizona congressman Paul Gosar to believe in climate change. By now, you’ve probably heard that Gosar, a Catholic Republican, boycotted Pope Francis’ historic address to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 24, where the Pontiff discussed the issue of global warming.
“If the Pope plans to spend the majority of his time advocating for flawed climate change policies,” Gosar said in a September statement on TownHall.com, “then I will not attend.”
Gosar insisted the Pope should turn his focus to challenging governments to address “persecution...enslavement, belittlement, and rape of Christian women and children,” and of course “intentionally planned genocide of unborn children by Planned Parenthood.”
Planned genocide. Right....
Gosar is a selective Catholic that decides if the Holy Father is right or wrong.
September 29, 2017
By Steve Hanley
...Heat is one factor (click here) that will make Phoenix less hospitable to human habitation in the foreseeable future. “It’s currently the fastest warming big city in the US,” meteorologist and former Arizona native Eric Holthaus tells Vice. A study by Climate Central finds that Phoenix will likely be three to five degrees hotter in the summer months by 2050. The average number of 100 degree days will increase from 40 a year today to more than 132 a year. To put that in some perspective, New York City currently experiences two 100 degree days a year. Climate Central expects that number to increase to 15 a year by 2050.
In 2015, 85 Phoenix Maricopa County residents died from causes associated with the heat. In 2016, 130 did so. Arizona State University climatologist David Hondula tells Vice that those deaths cannot be directly tied to climate change, but he warns that increasing temperatures will require Phoenix, which is located within the county, to step up its game when it comes to “social service programs, homeless shelters, the opioid epidemic,” and other “intermediating factors. If we’re not paying attention to those at the same time we’re keeping an eye on the thermometers, we might really miss some drivers and some threat magnifiers.”
Heat is not the only factor making the Phoenix area less hospitable to humans. Hondula says that lack of water could be more of a problem than rising temperatures. “As much as 20 percent of the river could dry up by 2050,” he says. The majority of the drinking water for the area comes from the Colorado River — the same source that much of southern California depends on....
June 20, 2016
By Barclay
...A deadly heat wave (click here) that is sweeping across the southwest has already claimed the lives of 4 hikers in Arizona after Phoenix recorded its 5th highest temperature ever at 118°F on Sunday.
NWS Phoenix is calling for temperatures to rise to 122°F!
Sunday’s record high temperatures claimed 3 hikers while Saturday was responsible for 1 heat-related fatality. While hiking on the Peralta Trail in Pinal County, a 25 year-old man fell victim to heat related illness reports NBC News. Sunday’s deaths included 3 hikers in Maricopa and Pima Counties....
