Posts by Chris Galvin

On November 9, 2006, the YPCC convened a meeting of experts from around the US to discuss the recommendation for a “Bridging Institution” to convey the most important findings of climate change science to the public.

Read Bill Blakemore’s article about the meeting on the ABC News website.

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Eban Goodstein, Project Director of Focus the Nation and Professor of Economics at Lewis & Clark College, Portland, addresses Yale’s environment school on the subject of building a grassroots movement to plan and host nation-wide discussions of climate change stabilization on January 31, 2008. See the presentation

See the action recommendation to organize a grassroots educational campaign

Yale University, along with two other leading U.S. organizations (Marsh - the world’s leading risk and insurance services firm and Ceres - the nation’s largest coalition of investors and environmental groups working with companies on environmental and social issues) has announced a unique collaborative effort to educate hundreds of independent corporate board members about the potential liabilities and strategic business opportunities that global climate change can create for companies. The announcement was made at a plenary session of the 2006 annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, being hosted in New York this week by former President Bill Clinton. The concept for this new collaboration has been developed in partnership with the YPCC.

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AAAS Project 2061 is developing a new Atlas of Science Literacy map on weather and climate. Frank Niepold, project participant and Climate Education Fellow at NOAA is assiting AAAS in this process and would appreciate any thoughts and suggestions for the new language/edits to the selected benchmarks. This new map will be in the second volume, please click on this link to take a look. If you would like to be involved in this process, please email Frank Niepold asap at: frank.niepold@noaa.gov .

See the action recommendation to improve K-12 students’ understanding of climate change

Eileen Claussen, President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change talks about the need for America to show leadership on the climate issue, and offers a comprehensive energy plan to reduce carbon emmissions. Video - 45 minutes

See the action recommendation to design a new vision for energy

Using visual images to communicate the impacts of climate change can be extremely effective.

“The National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology, Boulder (NSIDC/WDC) houses many photographic prints of glaciers, taken both from the air and from the ground. These photographs constitute an important historical record, as well as a data collection of interest to those studying the response of glaciers to climate change. NSIDC is partnering with the NOAA Climate Database Modernization Program (CDMP) and the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) to scan selected photographs and to make them available through a searchable interface.”

Go to http://nsidc.org/data/glacier_photo/index.html to find out more.

Please comment on this post and provide links to other high-impact visual resources that communicate the impacts of climate change.