“The Climate Crisis Hits Monterey County”
“Be Bold America!” Sunday, January 28, 2024 at 5:00pm (PDT)
As climate change and atmospheric rivers bring flooding, wind storms, and power outages to the Central Coast, Monterey County must prepare for an ongoing shift in its communities. This includes being faced with significant social and economic impacts including disadvantaged populations.
“Be Bold America!” has the honor of interviewing, not one, but two Monterey County Board of Supervisors, Mary Adams and Glenn Church, who are intimately aware of Monterey County’s challenges and potential solutions from the Pajaro flooding to the erosion of its beautiful coastline. So, please join “Be Bold America!” on January 28 at 5:00pm to hear, The Climate Crisis Hits Monterey County.
Interview Guest:
Monterey County Supervisor Mary Adams has led a 30-year career of public service solving problems for local families. Elected in 2016 and reelected in 2020 as the Fifth District Supervisor of Monterey County, Mary Adams was called to serve and lead again. In her first years as Supervisor, Mary proved herself a capable advocate on issues ranging from disaster and economic recovery to land use to creative solutions to our county’s housing and homelessness crisis. Prior to being called to serve, Mary served as President and CEO of United Way Monterey County for 14 years. She has also held senior leadership positions at the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Foundation, where she took on Big Tobacco, helped save hundreds of millions in funding for public health programs, and reduced tobacco-related illness and death in California. Mary Adams earned her Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Saint Mary’s College.
Interview Guest:
Monterey County Supervisor Glenn Church, a fourth-generation North Monterey County resident, was born in Salinas in 1959 and grew up in the Elkhorn/Royal Oaks area. The son of a County Supervisor (Warren Church, 1965-1977,) Glenn learned the vital significance of public service, and that government should make life easier for people rather than being an obstacle. He made his successful bid for office based upon dedication to making government work for the people it represents. Throughout his life Glenn has been active in numerous organizations at local, state, and national levels. He is a long-time businessman and farmer, running his own landscaping company for more than 40 years, and now living on and managing the same properties that his father and great-grandfather farmed beginning in the 1920s and now a choose-and-cut Christmas tree farm established in the 1950s. In 2020, Glenn and his wife, journalist Kathy McKenzie, co-authored the local history book, Humbled: How California’s Monterey Bay Escaped Industrial Ruin.
Guest Cohost:
Michael Clancy holds degrees in Oceanography and Meteorology and has worked at the Science Applications International Corporation, the Naval Research Lab, and the U.S. Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) in Monterey. Mike serves on the “Question Review Team” for the Annual Leon Panetta Lecture Series. Michael has authored over 100 publications in meteorology, oceanography and information technology, and received over 50 professional awards, including the Navy’s highest civilian award, the Distinguished Civilian Service Award, signed by the Secretary of the Navy. Mike is also a frequent lecturer on climate change and currently serves as Chair of the Monterey County Chapter of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby.
Dear Jill,
I listened to your radio program (BE BOld) interviewing Mary Adams
and Glen Church, two of the worst climate changers in Monterey County.
Glen Church just cut down two hundred Eucalyptus trees at Elkhorn
Slough with the blessing of all the Monterey Supervisors including
Mary Adams ,sending 200 tons of C02 and other stored pollutants into
our air. He then had them chipped which released another 200 tons of
stored carbon from their trunks as well as the stored car pollutants
that are now a known cause of dementia and Alzheimer’s in children and
adult brains.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/06/air-pollution-particles-in-young-brains-linked-to-alzheimers-
Then , after chipping, they sprayed the trunks to kill the tree
sprouts which kills the bees, insect and all manner of life in an
endangered habitat.
Gone are those magnificent trees that took 75 years to grow, that
stored one ton of C02 and pollutants into their bold and beautiful
trunks yearly, that gave over 5100 pounds of pure oxygen a year, that
took up water molecules from the dry earth and released them into the
air keeping that area cool and clean which we call transpiration or dew.
Gone are the bird and insect inhabitants that relied on those trees.
Gone is the beauty.
And yes, Our Sups and Senator Laird plan to cut them all down!
Its a crazy world, all backwards with people in charge who don’t know
what they are doing.
We have no hope as long as these people are our sung hero’s.
I was astounded that no one questions the real climate change toll taking down these
magnificent trees do .
They do not burn more readily than other trees.
Take Angel Island as an example if anyone will bother to read the link below
https://www.hillsconservationnetwork.org/angel-island-a-case-study.
I wish Jill Cody would be bold enough to interview me, a regular citizen here in Monterey trying to do my part to avert climate change and save trees.
The Native Plant society is tied with Bayer (once Monsanto), a
chemical giant who at the Native Plant Society’s bidding sprays death
spraying chemicals to all non natives, with a hysteria backed science
perpetuated by the chemical giants and not independent researchers.
Read the book Beyond the war on invasive species by Tao Orion and you
will learn the truth to this chemical gynecide which is being
perpetuated upon all living things including ourselves.
Lets hear the other side of this Eucalyptus cutting nightmare.
You can reach me at 831 582 1705
Sincerely,
Lorna Moffat