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Emergency or Not? Peoples’ Climate Vote Polls 1.2 Million
NEW YORK, New York, January 27, 2021 (ENS) – “Urgent climate action has broad support amongst people around the globe, across nationalities, age, gender and education levels,” declared United Nations Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner today as he released the results of the first Peoples’ Climate Vote. With 1.2 million respondents, this is the largest survey of public opinion on climate change ever conducted.
Using a new and unconventional approach to polling, the survey results span 50 countries covering 56 percent of the world’s population. The poll includes over half a million people under the age of 18, a key constituency on climate change that is typically unable to vote yet in regular elections.
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Winter is coming.
There is a good chance, in fact, that last weekendâs light dusting in the Pendleton area was but just a preview of Mother Natureâs annual slide into winter. Bad weather conditions, however, in the Burnt River Canyon east of Baker City closed Interstate 84 for about four hours on Sunday, Dec. 13, after several commercial trucks crashed on the snow-slickened freeway, providing an instant reminder that driving habits need to adjust with the changing of the season.
Interstate 84 has a history of bad crashes in winter â the 2012 charter bus crash that killed nine people on Cabbage Hill, the 26-vehicle predawn pileup that injured 12 in 2015 just east of Baker City â are but just a couple of recent examples.
BAKER CITY â Interstate 84 was closed for about four hours Sunday evening after several commercial trucks crashed on the snow-slickened freeway in the curvy Burnt River Canyon between Baker City and Huntington.
The trouble started around 6:40 p.m. when a westbound commercial truck towing a 53-foot trailer jackknifed near Milepost 345, about 41 miles southeast of Baker City.
According to a report from OSP Trooper Tim Schuette, the truck, driven by Dharminder Singh, 29, crashed into the concrete divider separating the westbound and eastbound lanes, pushing multiple barriers into the eastbound lanes.
The driverâs address was not available.
The truck and trailer combination blocked both westbound lanes, and several other vehicles subsequently crashed, on both the westbound and eastbound lanes, âas a result of the blockage,â Schuette wrote in his report.