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Time to pursue a 'low carbon society'?

U.S. National Academy of Sciences and other agencies/organizations call for countries to wean themselves off fossil fuel dependency

This may be of widespread interest both on and off campus: Janet Raloff of Science News wrote in her blog about the joint statement Tuesday (June 10) by the National Academy of Sciences and others, "calling on world leaders to 'to limit the threat of climate change' by weaning themselves off of their dependence on fossil fuels. They also called for a move to sustainable resource use -- which, as we all know, would not include the continued full-throttle mining of finite, millions-of-years-old coal, oil, and natural gas."

Read Janet's blog entry and/or look directly at the statement (a PDF document). At the bottom of her blog entry, people are offering their comments and views (hey, that's what bloggers and their readers do!).

Science in the Northwest now has central Web showcase

Logo for Science Northwest, a collaborative regional news site for leading academic research institutions

Looking for the latest research news in the Northwest? Collaborating science writers at the leading Northwest research institutions now have a clearinghouse dedicated to the region's major institutions. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory now hosts Science Northwest. Check it out!

 
Projected Rogue River Basin climate impacts described in six UO videos

Bob Doppelt in 2008 Roger Hamilton in 2008

Bob Doppelt and Roger Hamilton of the UO Climate Leadership Initiative went on video to talk about the recently released report featuring climate-change projections for Oregon's Rogue River Basin. Visit our VIDEO PAGE where -- in six videos -- Doppelt talks separately about planning and policy implications, and Hamilton speaks on overall impacts facing the basin, how agriculture, particularly pinot noir production, may be threatened, what may happen to the region's vegetation, and how salmon may be affected.

 

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