Global warming

By Keith Newman

In 1988, researchers Randall Cerveny and Robert Balling of Arizona State University released a report detailing that pollution accumulating during the week most likely spoils weekend weather on the Atlantic Coast. They have demonstrated the two most likely days for it to rain are Saturday and Sunday, and the reason for this is human activity.

Even if one is of a conservative viewpoint and doesn't believe in global warming, ignoring it is hardly a position one can take and bet the planet on. We must protect and preserve our Earth.

Preserving the Earth is one reason why Newman supports a moratorium on leases at the Marcellus Shale Fields. Newman is not convinced that fracturing, the method used to obtain access to these deep gas pockets, will enable us to keep our drinking water clean. In Pennsylvania, we have seen one town, Centralia, become unfit for human habitation because we did not properly extract resources that we as a society need. Destroying an entire town is not a mistake we should make again. Now gas pockets have been found in the Delaware River Basin. We must insure our profit from these deposits is long term.

We've seen the effects of this type of pollution on a local basis. The shad run in the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, instrumental to saving our starving troops at Valley Forge and a staple of our economy in the early 19th and century, has just begun to return to the area. Even so, the fish in our local waters are not safe to eat because of pollution.

As state representative Newman will insure that we protect our planet for you, your children, and grandchildren. Newman supports the expansion of windmills, which are now technologically feasible for individual homeowners. There are many new ideas like this that government, through use of tax credits can help promulgate.

Clean air, clean water, clean, renewable energy, are policies Keith Newman will promote.