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<div align="center"><font size="-1"><b>TABLE OF
CONTENTS</b></font></div>
<div><font size="-1" color="#0000FF"><b>RESOURCES</b></font></div>
<div><font size="-1"><b>Science Magazine's Top
Employers</b></font></div>
<div><font
size="-1">http://recruit.sciencemag.org/feature/advice/foc_112604.shl</font
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<div><font size="-1"><b>Science & Technology Web Awards
2004</b><x-tab>
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>http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00085684-2613-115C-A61383<span
></span>414B7F0000</font></div>
<div><font size="-1" color="#0000FF"><b>SCIENCE NEWS</b></font></div>
<div><font size="-1"><b>PHOTO ARCHIVES: SHRINKING GLACIERS EVIDENCE OF
GLOBAL WARMING</b> http://snipurl.com/bfpj</font></div>
<div><font size="-1"><b>SCIENTISTS DEBATE DECLINE OF OIL STORES:
SOONER OR LATER?</b> http://snipurl.com/bdty</font></div>
<div><font size="-1"><b>1 IN 10 BIRD SPECIES COULD VANISH WITHIN 100
YEARS</b> http://snipurl.com/bcrn</font></div>
<div><font size="-1"><b>New Panel to Direct U.S. Policy on
Oceans</b></font></div>
<div><font size="-1"><b>LAKE TAHOE WARMING MIRRORS WORLD TREND</b>
http://snipurl.com/bihf</font></div>
<div><font size="-1" color="#0000FF"><b>FORUM</b></font></div>
<div><font size="-1"><b>The Scientific Consensus on Climate
Change</b><x-tab>
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color="#000000"
>http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/306/5702/1686</font></font
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<div><font size="-1"><b>Policy Recommendations from New Approaches on
Energy and the Environment.</b><x-tab>
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>http://www.rff.org/rff/RFF_Press/CustomBookPages/NewApproachesonEner<span
></span>gyandtheEnvironment/NewApproache</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+1"
color="#0000FF"><b>Resources</b></font></div>
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<div><b>Science Magazine's Top Employers</b></div>
<div>http://recruit.sciencemag.org/feature/advice/foc_112604.shl</div>
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<div><b>Science & Technology Web Awards 2004</b></div>
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>http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00085684-2613-115C-A61383<span
></span>414B7F0000</div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>Science
News</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="-1">Check out this section both for
news tidbits, and for</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="-1">examples of how to communicate
science to a non-scientist audience</font></div>
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<div><b>PHOTO ARCHIVES: SHRINKING GLACIERS EVIDENCE OF GLOBAL
WARMING</b></div>
<div>from San Francisco Chronicle</div>
<div> Glaciers throughout Alaska are shrinking more and more
rapidly, and scientists comparing old photos taken up to a century ago
with digital images made during climbing expeditions today say the
pictures provide the most dramatic evidence yet that global warming is
real.</div>
<div> And it's not only the glaciers reflecting the climate
change. Everywhere on the treeless tundra north of the jagged slopes
of Alaska's Brooks Range, explosive bursts of vegetation -- willows,
alders, birch and many shrubs -- are thriving where permafrost once
kept the tundra surface frozen in winter.</div>
<div> Two geophysicists and a government geologist who spend
much of their working lives exploring changes in the Arctic displayed
dozens of photographs from the thousands in their files Thursday at
the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San
Francisco.http://snipurl.com/bfpj</div>
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<div><b>SCIENTISTS DEBATE DECLINE OF OIL STORES: SOONER OR
LATER?</b></div>
<div>from San Francisco Chronicle</div>
<div> Scientists meeting at the American Geophysical Union
conference in San Francisco debated Tuesday whether the world has
plenty of oil for centuries to come -- or if it faces impending
shortages that might trigger economic chaos, even war, in coming
decades.</div>
<div> On the one hand, optimists are confident that vast
untapped oil reserves and continual improvement in drilling methods
will assure plenty of cheap, abundant oil for Earth through this
century and perhaps the next.</div>
<div> On the other hand, some experts fear a global-scale repeat
of scientists' past failure, in the 1950s, to heed a warning from the
Cassandra of petroleum geology: M. King Hubbert, who prophesied the
oil shocks of the 1970s.http://snipurl.com/bdty</div>
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<div><b>1 IN 10 BIRD SPECIES COULD VANISH WITHIN 100 YEARS</b></div>
<div>from USA Today</div>
<div> By 2100, about 10% of all bird species probably will be
extinct, killed off by habitat loss, hunting and climate change,
conservation biologists estimate.</div>
<div> "We are changing the world so much that even birds
cannot adapt," says biologist Cagan Sekercioglu of Stanford
University, who led the extinction analysis.</div>
<div> Roughly 1,200 bird species, about 12% of the total, are
threatened with extinction. A "critically endangered" 179 of
those species face an extremely high risk of immediate disappearance.
Last month, for example, the last known Hawaiian po'ouli bird died.
http://snipurl.com/bcrn</div>
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<div><b>New Panel to Direct U.S. Policy on Oceans</b></div>
<div>by Jim VandeHei and Juliet Eilperin<font size="-1"><i> (from
vcarroll@coreocean.org as a courtesy of
washingtonpost.com)</i></font></div>
<div> President Bush created a White House panel
yesterday to consider ways to clean up the world's oceans by better
managing fish populations, regulating pollution and more thoroughly
examining future threats to ocean life. But some environmentalists
charged that Bush is moving too slowly and timidly to address what
they called a serious environmental crisis off the coasts of the
United States.</div>
<div> Responding to recommendations of a presidential commission
that spent nearly three years investigating ways to restore the oceans
to health, Bush issued an executive order to begin revising the
nation's policies through a Cabinet-level Committee on
Ocean Policy.</div>
<div> The commission, which issued its final report three months
ago, said that the nation's fisheries are in trouble and that the
federal government must change how it manages the seas and must
spend more on ocean research and conservation within the next five
years.</div>
<div> The United States spends $8 billion on ocean-related
activities each year. The new committee will begin reviewing
government programs dealing with everything from protecting coral
reefs off the Florida coast to managing fisheries, according to James
L. Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental
Quality.</div>
<div> Connaughton, who will head the committee, told reporters
the president wants "strong management from the top" for the
4.5 million square miles of ocean under U.S. jurisdiction.</div>
<div> Connaughton said the White House will act immediately on
40 of the commission's 200-plus recommendations, although most of
these actions would not lead to noticeable changes in the nation's
oceans policies. The White House did not offer an opinion on some of
the most sweeping proposed changes, including creating a $4
billion trust fund for new ocean initiatives.</div>
<div> The fund would require congressional approval and
would be financed by diverting about 80 percent of the government's
oil and gas royalties. Retired Adm. James D. Watkins, who chaired the
commission, has warned that it would be a tough sell politically
because lawmakers prefer tapping those funds for other programs.</div>
<div> The only new funding Connaughton announced was $2.7
million that will be requested in the fiscal 2006 budget for coral
reef improvements in Florida and elsewhere. He said it is
unclear how much the other 39 changes will cost.</div>
<div> "For the president and the administration to
recognize there is a crisis in the oceans is an important step,"
said Leon E. Panetta, a White House chief of staff during the Clinton
administration, who has been a strong advocate for a new policy.
"One can quarrel with the [details], but I have to look at
this as a good first step."</div>
<div> Some environmentalists said they are pleased the
president has taken initiatives to address the ocean's
current plight, but others said the White House is not devoting
enough money or attention to the problem.</div>
<div> Sarah Chasis, director of water and coastal programs at the
Natural Resources Defense Council, said the new commission needs
"clear policy direction" from the president and questioned
why the administration is not doing more to reform fishery
management councils.</div>
<div> These councils are often dominated by commercial and
recreational fishing interests and often allow bigger catches than
many scientists recommend. The administration backs individual
fishing quotas that would allow fishermen to buy and trade
commercial allowances.</div>
<div> "We were looking for bold leadership, and what we've
seen today indicates a tepid response with minimal detail," said
Ted Morton, federal policy director at Oceana, a conservation group.
© 2004 The Washington Post Company</div>
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<div><b>LAKE TAHOE WARMING MIRRORS WORLD TREND</b></div>
<div>from San Francisco Chronicle</div>
<div> Tahoe City -- Global warming seems to have reached the
lowest depths of Lake Tahoe, scientists warned Monday, potentially
complicating plans to preserve the lake's fabled water clarity and
biological health.</div>
<div> A new study by researchers at UC Davis suggests the lake
has heated by nearly 1 degree Fahrenheit since the early 1970s, when
readings began. The warming may be significantly altering the dynamics
of Lake Tahoe's cold-water upwellings and seasonal mixing of sediments
and nutrients, the scientists said. http://snipurl.com/bihf</div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+1"
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<div><b>The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change</b></div>
<div>Essay by Naomi Oreskes<font size="-1"><i> Science</i>, Vol 306,
Issue 5702, 1686 , 3 December 2004</font></div>
<div> "Policy-makers and the public who are not members of
the relevant research community have had to form opinions about the
reality of global climate change on the basis of often conflicting
descriptions provided by the media regarding the level of scientific
certainty attached to studies of climate. In this Essay, Oreskes
analyzes the existing scientific literature to show that there is a
robust consensus that anthropogenic global climate change is
occurring. Thus, despite claims sometimes made by some groups that
there is not good evidence that Earth's climate is being affected by
human activities, the scientific community is in overwhelming
agreement that such evidence is clear and persuasive. The 928 papers
were divided into six categories: explicit endorsement of the
consensus position, evaluation of impacts, mitigation proposals,
methods, paleoclimate analysis, and rejection of the consensus
position. S..Of all the papers, 75% fell into the first three
categories, either explicitly or implicitly accepting the consensus
view; 25% dealt with methods or paleoclimate, taking no position on
current anthropogenic climate change. Remarkably, none of the papers
disagreed with the consensus position."<font color="#0000EE">
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/306/5702/1686</font></div
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<div><b>Policy Recommendations from New Approaches on Energy and the
Environment.</b><x-tab>
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>http://www.rff.org/rff/RFF_Press/CustomBookPages/NewApproachesonEner<span
></span>gyandtheEnvironment/NewApproache</div>
<div> "This collection of twenty-five "memos to the
President" from economists and policy analysts at Resources for
the Future, a Washington DC think tank with a tradition for
independent, objective research, offers constructive policy options on
critical challenges related to energy, the environment, and natural
resources.</div>
<div> Each contributor was asked to address the question:
"Based on your research and knowledge, what policy recommendation
would you like to make to the next U.S. President?"</div>
<div> Writing in advance of the 2004 election so as to keep
their essay free of partisan interpretations, the authors took pains
to make their ideas accessible to a busy president as well as a wide
range of readers interested in a concise, authoritative overview of
the nation's energy and environmental policy choices."</div>
<div> The book is available for purchase, but the policies
section has videos of the scientists presenting their recommendations
available for free viewing.</div>
<div><x-tab> </x-tab>Taken
from Sci-Tech (NF) Library Newsletter</div>
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