Impact of Climate Change:
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Over 800 colleges and universities, K-12 schools, civic organizations and religious groups are participating in Focus the Nation, potentially the largest simultaneous teach-in in history. (READ MORE) |
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"The atmosphere is thin enough that we are capable of
changing its composition."
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[Al
Gore] |
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| Report: "Confronting
Climate Change in the US Northeast: Science Impacts and Solutions" [PDF]
by the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment Synthesis Team |
| The Northeast Climate Impacts
Assessment (NECIA) is a collaboration between the Union of Concerned
Scientists (UCS) and a team of more than fifty independent experts
to develop and communicate a new assessment of climate change,
impacts on climate-sensitive sectors, and solutions in the northeastern
United States. Launched in May, 2005, the goal of the assessment
is to combine state-of-the-art analyses with effective outreach
to provide policymakers, opinion leaders, and the public with
the best available science upon which to base informed choices
about climate change mitigation and adaptation. (site description) |
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| Clima 2007 WellBeing Indoors Congress. 10-14 June Helsinki,
Finland |
| http://www.clima2007.org/portal/ |
| Clima 2007 will be the
leading international scientific congress in the HVAC area in
year 2007. The 9th REHVA World Congress will offer scientists,
industry, building owners, consultants, engineers, architects
and policy-makers a platform for the exchange of scientific knowledge
and technical solutions. The congress will cover all the aspects
of HVAC technology including building automation in all types
of buildings. |
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| USA Today: "Science
V. Bush: A heated collision" |
| The Associated Press (August 16, 2004) |
Last November, President
Bush gave physicist Richard Garwin a medal for his "valuable
scientific advice on important questions of national security." Just
three months later, Garwin signed a statement condemning the
Bush administration for misusing, suppressing and distorting
scientific advice.
(Update July, 2007: So far more than
11,000 scientists, including 48 Nobel prize winners, have
put their names to the declaration.) |
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| Statement: "Restoring
Scientific Integrity in Policymaking" |
| On February 18, 2004, over
60 leading scientists–Nobel laureates, leading medical
experts, former federal agency directors, and university chairs
and presidents–signed the statement below, voicing their
concern over the misuse of science by the Bush administration. UCS
is seeking the signatures of thousands of additional U.S. scientists
in support of this effort. |
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| News: "Bush
Aide Softened Greenhouse Gas Links to Global Warming" |
By Andrew C. Revkin, The
New York Times (June 8, 2005)
A White House official who once led the oil industry's fight
against limits on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government
climate reports in ways that play down links between such emissions
and global warming, according to internal documents. In handwritten
notes on drafts of several reports issued in 2002 and 2003, the
official, Philip A. Cooney, removed or adjusted descriptions
of climate research that government scientists and their supervisors,
including some senior Bush administration officials, had already
approved. In many cases, the changes appeared in the final reports. |
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| Article: “An Apollo Program for Climate
Change” |
| http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/21/AR2007062101859.html |
By David Sokol, Friday,
The Washington Post (June 22, 2007)
In May 1961, President John F. Kennedy committed the nation,
by the end of that decade, to landing Americans on the moon and
bringing them safely back to Earth. Kennedy identified specific
interim goals, such as developing a lunar spacecraft, new rocket
booster technologies, and the deployment of satellite communication
and weather observation systems. |
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| OP-ED: “A New Global Blueprint” |
| http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/06/david-brooks-new-global-blueprint.html |
By David Brooks (June 19,
2007)
A few weeks ago, the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University
of Virginia brought together some big thinkers to discuss the
future of American foreign policy, and guess what? They couldn’t
agree. They couldn’t agree on whether China would replace
the U.S. as the world’s leading power. They couldn’t
agree on whether Islamic extremism would be central or peripheral
in the years ahead. They couldn’t agree on the significance
of America’s unpopularity. |
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| Article: "Beyond The Ivory Tower: The
Scientific Consensus on Climate Change" |
| http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686/ |
By Naomi Oreskes Science (3
December 2004): Vol. 306. no. 5702, p. 1686
Policy-makers and the media, particularly in the United States,
frequently assert that climate science is highly uncertain. Some
have used this as an argument against adopting strong measures
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For example, while discussing
a major U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report on the risks
of climate change, then-EPA administrator Christine Whitman argued, "As
[the report] went through review, there was less consensus on
the science and conclusions on climate change" . Some corporations
whose revenues might be adversely affected by controls on carbon
dioxide emissions have also alleged major uncertainties in the
science. Such statements suggest that there might be substantive
disagreement in the scientific community about the reality of
anthropogenic climate change. This is not the case. |
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| Climate 411: Bloging the Science and Policy of Global
Warming |
| http://environmentaldefenseblogs.org/climate411/ |
| Climate 411 is the voice
of the experts at Environmental Defense, providing plain-English
explanations of climate change science, technology, policy, and
news. |
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Multimedia |
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Organizations |
| Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) |
| http://www.ipcc.ch/ |
| Recognizing the problem
of potential global climate change, the World Meteorological
Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP) established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) in 1988. It is open to all members of the UN and WMO.
The role of the IPCC is to assess on a comprehensive, objective,
open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio-economic
information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of
risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and
options for adaptation and mitigation. The IPCC does not carry
out research nor does it monitor climate related data or other
relevant parameters. It bases its assessment mainly on peer reviewed
and published scientific/technical literature. |
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| Global Warming Basics: Pew Center on Global Climate Change |
| http://www.pewclimate.org/global-warming-basics/ |
| The
Pew
Center on Global Climate Change brings together business leaders, policy
makers, scientists, and other experts to bring a new approach to a complex
and often controversial issue. Our approach is based on sound science, straight
talk, and a belief that we can work together to protect the climate while
sustaining economic growth. (web description) |
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Agreements |
| People’s Ratification |
| http://www.kyotoandbeyond.org/petition.html |
| The People’s Ratification is a nationwide petition drive designed to give thousands of citizens a chance to respond in a way that we now cannot. We are telling our local officials, our nation’s leaders and the international community that we do not go along with the Washington party line. We want to set a good example and be responsible stewards. We care deeply about the future viability of the planet. And, we are ready to commit ourselves to a clean energy future. |
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