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Anyone concerned about climate change? Most of us are.

Climate scientists (97+% of them) think we ought to be! And, I know, it takes courage even to think about it***

For decades, scientists have made good predictions about world wide sea level rise, increased global temperatures, more extreme weather ( and more often), droughts and desertification, heat waves, melting glaciers, increased floods, ocean acidification, early melting of snows, more extreme forest fires, migration of diseases, mass extinctions, etc… and they predict much, much worse to come, especially if we dither and delay.

Doubt and delay and dismissing the science is fine for Big Oil and Coal’s “bottom line”, but, …… for you and your kids? Not so much.

Besides cleaning up our own act, such as moving to CF bulbs, solar panels, and high mileage cars, each of us, as citizens, can do a great deal to reduce our nation’s emissions. How? Through “politics”!

David Bornstein, a writer for the NY Times, has a piece that ran online this week about two groups: Citizens Climate Lobby and RESULTS (an advocacy group working on poverty):

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/lobbying-for-the-greater...

Here's an excerpt:

“The Citizens Climate Lobby is taking very sophisticated ideas and putting them into letters and op-eds and face-to-face meetings with members of Congress,” explained Bob Inglis, a South Carolina Republican who served 12 years in the House of Representatives and now directs the Energy and Enterprise Initiative at George Mason University. “I think they’ve moved the needle on this issue.”

I am a proud member of CCL and hope you add your voice of concern to support our efforts.


*** see the most current and chilling climate evaluations in

An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Global Warming Impacts: How We Know Inaction Is the Gravest Threat Humanity Faces | ThinkProgress

Cited in this article are studies from the best of the best climate scientists (not paid-for partisan think tank, not bloggers, not crack-pots) who are desperately trying to move us to sufficient action!


NOAA, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration,
was formed on October 3, 1970, after Richard Nixon proposed creating a new department to serve a national need "… for better protection of life and property from natural hazards … for a better understanding of the total environment … [and] for exploration and development leading to the intelligent use of our marine resources …"

Nature Magazine - first published on 4 November 1869,[1] is ranked the world's most cited interdisciplinary scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2010 Journal Citation Reports.[2]

Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine,[1] is the academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[2][3] and is one of the world's top scientific journals.[4]

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity. It is the world's largest general scientific society, with 126,995 individual and institutional members at the end of 2008,


Massachusetts Institute of Technology - It employs around 1,000 faculty members. 78 Nobel laureates, 52 National Medal of Science recipients, 45 Rhodes Scholars, and 38 MacArthur Fellows are currently or have previously been affiliated with the university.

The Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Change — named in honor of George Hadley — is one of the United Kingdom's leading centers for the study of scientific issues associated with climate change. It is part of, and based at the headquarters of the Met Office in Exeter.

International Energy Agency -The IEA was established to meet the industrial countries' energy organization needs in the wake of the 1973–1974 oil crisis.

The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society still in existence.[1] Founded in November 1660.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR, pronounced "EN-car"[1]) has multiple facilities, including the I. M. Pei-designed Mesa Laboratory headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. NCAR is managed by the nonprofit University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Studies include meteorology, climate science, atmospheric chemistry, solar-terrestrial interactions, environmental and societal impacts.

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, usually referred to as PNAS, is the official journal of the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS). PNAS is an important scientific journal that printed its first issue in 1915 and continues to publish highly cited research reports...

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