<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><B>DISCCRS News</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><B>2/2/2007</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style="">************************************<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><B>TABLE OF CONTENTS</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><B><I>RESOURCES and FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES</I></B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Small Grant Program for the Human Dimensions (SGP-HD) – Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see RESOURCES 1 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>New Website - Sea Ice Tide - Inertial Interaction - International Arctic Research Center - University of Alaska Fairbanks (USA)</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/SITII"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/SITII</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see RESOURCES 2 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>2007 POGO-SCOR Visiting Fellowships for Oceanographic Observations</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.ocean-partners.org/POGO_SCOR_Fellowships.htm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.ocean-partners.org/POGO_SCOR_Fellowships.htm</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see RESOURCES 3 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>New report on the climate change responses of the 500 largest U.S. companies released on 31 January 2007</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.ceres.org/pub/publication.php?pid=234"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.ceres.org/pub/publication.php?pid=234</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see RESOURCES 4 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B> <SPAN style=""> </SPAN></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><B><I>FORUM</I></B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>EcoRes Forum Climate Change E-Conference Series -</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>"From Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism: Making the Shift" – April 2007</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.eco-res.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.eco-res.org</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> or write </SPAN><A href="mailto:forum@eco-res.org"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">forum@eco-res.org</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> </SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN> (see FORUM 1 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><B><I>SCIENCE NEWS<SPAN style=""><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></I></B></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style=""><SPAN style=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><B><I>Articles about the IPPC Report released 2/2/07:</I></B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">www.ipcc.ch</SPAN> for full 2001 and 2007 reports</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style=""><B>Blame for global warming placed firmly on humankind</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN><SPAN style=""></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn11088-blame-for-global-warming-placed-firmly-on-humankind.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn11088-blame-for-global-warming-placed-firmly-on-humankind.html</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style=""> (see NEWS 1 below)</SPAN></SPAN><B> </B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Panel Says Warming Caused by Humans</B><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/science/earth/02cnd-climate.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/science/earth/02cnd-climate.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/255usa"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/255usa</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><B><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> (see NEWS 2 below) </SPAN></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Global climate report gets final polish before release</B></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> (see NEWS 3 below) </SPAN><SPAN style=""><B></B></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style=""><SPAN style=""><B>Indonesia could lose 2,000 islands to global warming by 2030</B></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><BR></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200701300312.htm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200701300312.htm</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> (see NEWS 4 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>New Climate Disclosure Standards Board launched -- company climate risk reporting</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.ceres.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.ceres.org</FONT></SPAN></A> <SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Ceres website), </SPAN><A href="http://www.incr.com/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.incr.com</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="">(Investor Network on Climate Risk website)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 5 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>New Climate Report Too Rosy, Experts Say</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2007/01/29/new_climate_report_to"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2007/01/29/new_climate_report_to</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">o_rosy_experts_say/<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/2utbhn"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/2utbhn</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 6 below)</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>World Scientists Near Consensus on Warming</B><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/world/30climate.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/world/30climate.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/2bq62y"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/2bq62y</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> (see NEWS 7 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style=""><B>On Global Warming, What US Can Learn from Europe</B><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0130/p02s01-usec.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0130/p02s01-usec.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/38fuow"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/38fuow</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><O:P></O:P></SPAN> (see NEWS 8 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Lawmakers hear of interference in global warming science; presidential hopefuls speak out.</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 9 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>France Tells U.S. to Sign Climate Pacts or Face Tax</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/world/europe/01climate.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/world/europe/01climate.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/324p59"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/324p59</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see NEWS 10 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B>Washington Watch: Post Postdoc: Are New Scientists Prepared for the Real World? -</B> <SPAN style="">From American Institute <SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B> </B></FONT></SPAN>of Biological Science</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.aibs.org/washington-watch/washington_watch_2007_01.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.aibs.org/washington-watch/washington_watch_2007_01.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B> </B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></FONT></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><B><I>SUMMER PROGRAMS, COURSES, INTERNSHIPS, MEETINGS, OPPORTUNITIES</I></B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Call for Posters - 2007 Gordon Research Conference on Polar Marine Science
- Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, 16 February 2007
</B><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://csd.tamu.edu/news/news_item.2007-01-29.8117887449">http://csd.tamu.edu/news/news_item.2007-01-29.8117887449</A> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Invitation - European launch event for the IPY - 26 February, 2007 - European Parliament Strasbourg
(France) </B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://csd.tamu.edu/news/news_item.2007-01-29.7632699003">http://csd.tamu.edu/news/news_item.2007-01-29.7632699003</A> <A href="http://csd.tamu.edu/news/news_item.2007-01-29.7632699003"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">For Further info</FONT></SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>2007 3rd Annual Polar Technology Conference
- April 26-27, 2007 - Stanford University Menlo Park, CA (USA)</B><O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Brings together Polar Scientists and Technology Developers in a forum to exchange information on research system operational needs and technology solutions that have been successful in polar environments. This exchange of knowledge helps to address issues of design, implementation, and deployment for systems that are to achieve their research goals in the Polar Regions. <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://csd.tamu.edu/news/news_item.2007-01-29.3389747823">http://csd.tamu.edu/news/news_item.2007-01-29.3389747823</A>
<O:P></O:P><B> Young Scholar Network for Earth Systems Science - Third Workshop - June 2-5, 2007 - Bristol (UK)</B></DIV><O:P></O:P><B></B><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><A href="http:/ww.aimes.ucar.edu/activities/YSN/2007_UK/YSN_BRISTOL.shtml"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http:///ww.aimes.ucar.edu/activities/YSN/2007_UK/YSN_BRISTOL.shtml</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see MEETINGS 1 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B> </B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><B><I>JOBS</I></B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Lecturer - Development Studies - UEA (UK) Ref: ATR664</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <A href="http://www.uea.ac.uk/hr/jobs/acad/atr663.htm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.uea.ac.uk/hr/jobs/acad/atr663.htm</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Postdoc - Tropical Climate Change - Rosenstiel School</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences - University of Miami, FL (USA)</B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B> </B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><B></B></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOB 1 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Post Doc - Participatory Appraisal of EU climate change policies - The Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – (The Netherlands)</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(see JOB 2 below)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>Postdoctoral fellowship - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) - Vienna, (Austria</B></SPAN><SPAN style="">)<O:P></O:P></SPAN><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/YSP/pdoc/index.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/YSP/pdoc/index.html</FONT></SPAN></A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> (see JOB 3 below)</DIV></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>Resources and Funding Opportunities</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(RESOURCES 1)<B> Small Grant Program for the Human Dimensions (SGP-HD) – Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) </B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>SGP-HD builds on the interdisciplinary networks created in the second round of the Collaborative Research Network (CRN II) program and is designed to strengthen the “Human Dimensions and Policy Implications”of the IAI Science Agenda. The program will develop strong human dimensions research in conjunction with the projects under CRN II by integrating natural and human sciences. The program is intended to not only strengthen the human dimensions component of individual projects through integration of a range of human sciences as an integral part of the new generation of projects under CRN II, but also to link individual CRN II projects with similar human dimensions issues.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>SGP-HD will fund interdisciplinary Global Environmental Change (GEC) research with emphasis on complex, dynamic coupled human – biophysical systems in order to develop strong human dimensions research in conjunction with existing CRN II projects.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Please follow the links below to access the detailed call for proposals<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Call for Proposals: </SPAN><A href="file://localhost/twiki/pub/IAI/IaiServicesReception/IAI_SGP_HD_Call4Proposals.pdf"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">https://iaibr3.iai.int/twiki/pub/IAI/IaiServicesReception/IAI_SGP_HD_Call4Proposals.pdf</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Collaborator Form: </SPAN><A href="file://localhost/twiki/pub/IAI/IaiServicesReception/IAI_SGP_HD_CollForm.doc"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">https://iaibr3.iai.int/twiki/pub/IAI/IaiServicesReception/IAI_SGP_HD_CollForm.doc</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Proposed Budget and Timetable: </SPAN><A href="file://localhost/twiki/pub/IAI/IaiServicesReception/IAI_SGP_HD_BudgetForm.doc"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">https://iaibr3.iai.int/twiki/pub/IAI/IaiServicesReception/IAI_SGP_HD_BudgetForm.doc</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">********************<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(RESOURCES 2) <B>New Website - Sea Ice Tide - Inertial Interaction - International Arctic Research Center - University of Alaska Fairbanks (USA)</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/SITII"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/SITII</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A new website is available for Sea Ice Tide - Inertial Interaction (SITII), a project of the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Funded by the NSF Office of Polar Programs, SITII is an observation and modeling project aimed at elucidating the physical mechanisms underlying the interaction of tides, boundary layers, and sea ice mechanisms.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The study utilizes drift data from buoys that were deployed in the Beaufort Sea in August 2006, in addition to buoys from previous arctic field projects, to track the movement and interaction of sea ice relative to storms and tidal changes. The website features near real-time position data for the buoys as well as detailed descriptions of the Joint Western Arctic Climate Study/Joint Ocean Ice Study Research Cruise on the icebreaker Louis St. Laurent in August 2006.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A second set of buoys will be deployed in 2007.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For further information on SITII, please contact: Jennifer Hutchings, International Arctic Research Center<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>E-mail: </SPAN><A href="mailto:jenny@iarc.uaf.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">jenny@iarc.uaf.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">********************<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(RESOURCES 3) <B>2007 POGO-SCOR Visiting Fellowships for Oceanographic Observations</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.ocean-partners.org/POGO_SCOR_Fellowships.htm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.ocean-partners.org/POGO_SCOR_Fellowships.htm</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This announcement may be of interest to some OCB/OCCC PIs who have ongoing international collaborations.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Please circulate this to your national oceanographic community. We are looking for both hosts and fellows. Remember that the fellowships are for observations, not research. Many of the applications last year were for training in research methods and we had to give these a low score.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Best regards, Ed Urban, Ph.D., Executive Director, Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research E-mail: </SPAN><A href="mailto:Ed.Urban@jhu.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Ed.Urban@jhu.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> </SPAN><A href="http://www.scor-int.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.scor-int.org
</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(RESOURCES 4) <B>New report on the climate change responses of the 500 largest U.S. companies released on 31 January 2007</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.ceres.org/pub/publication.php?pid=234"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.ceres.org/pub/publication.php?pid=234</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dear climate-l colleagues -<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am writing to inform you that Ceres and Calvert released a new report, Climate Risk Disclosure by the S&P 500, on 31 January 2007. This is the first-ever analysis of climate disclosure practices among the 500 largest U.S. companies. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The report concludes that America’s largest companies still are not taking climate change seriously enough. Less than half (47 percent) of the S&P 500 companies responded to a global survey last year by the Carbon Disclosure Project requesting information about their climate risks and strategies, and those that did respond failed to provide much of the information investors are seeking. Nearly a third (30 percent) of the responders, in fact, declined to publicly release their responses, calling them “confidential.”<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Other key findings from the Ceres/Calvert report include:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">-- Poor Greenhouse Gas Emissions Management: 80 percent of the 228 companies that responded to the survey (182 companies) addressed the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but only a quarter (59 companies) disclosed measurable emissions reductions targets and specific time frames for reductions.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">-- Physical Impacts Not on Radar Screen:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Nearly 75 percent of the responding companies (171 companies) acknowledged bottom-line risks associated with extreme weather events such as hurricanes, fires and floods.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However, very few of the companies surveyed link more-extreme weather to climate change and fewer still—only four percent – disclosed strategies for mitigating and adapting to the growing physical impacts from climate change.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Ceres/Calvert analysis was based on S&P 500 company responses to a questionnaire distributed last year by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), to obtain more information relating to corporate management of climate change. CDP is a coordinated effort by 225 global investors with total assets of $31 trillion. The report authors used the Global Framework for Climate Risk Disclosure to analyze the quality of responses.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you have any questions, please let me know.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Chris Fox, Director of Investor Programs, Ceres, </SPAN><A href="mailto:fox@ceres.org"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">fox@ceres.org</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Ceres website (</SPAN><A href="http://www.ceres.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.ceres.org</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">) Investor Network on Climate Risk website (</SPAN><A href="http://www.incr.com/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.incr.com</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>Forum</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(FORUM 1) <B>EcoRes Forum Climate Change E-Conference Series -</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>"From Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism: Making the Shift" – April 2007</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.eco-res.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.eco-res.org</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> or write </SPAN><A href="mailto:forum@eco-res.org"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">forum@eco-res.org</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The EcoRes Forum, a new initiative undertaken by Mary Leyser, Coordinator of the Eco-Ethics International Union (EEIU), and Acad. Prof. Gennady Polikarpov, EEIU Vice-President and Chief Scientist at the Institute of Biology of Southern Seas in Sevastopol, Ukraine, announces the launch of a series of online e-conferences focusing on the ethical, political and sociocultural aspects of climate change.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The series, which will be offered free of charge, starts off in April 2007 with a two-week dialogue on a topic of increasing urgency: expanding and accelerating an ecocentric philosophy among societies around the world. The need for such a shift has long been recognized. Based on the UN's Rio Declaration of Environment and Development, in 1992 Al Gore observed, "Our challenge is to accelerate the needed change in thinking about our relationship to the environment in order to shift the pattern of our civilization to a new equilibrium - before the world's ecological system loses its current one." (Earth in the Balance)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Titled "From Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism: Making the Shift", the e-conference will bring together academics and activists, scientists and social critics, researchers and journalists, community leaders and citizens, all focused on looking for answers and actions to make this paradigm shift a reality. After reflecting on past movement successes to identify transferable practices, the semi-structured discussion will evaluate the current status - looking at what is working (and what isn't) around the globe. Armed with this knowledge, participants will shift focus to the future, considering multi-prong approaches for moving forward on this trans-disciplinary issue.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As EcoRes materials outline, the forum's mission is ambitious, yet, organizers are convinced, fully achievable: 1)In keeping with our foundational philosophy of ecocentric environmental ethics and commitment to the principles of social equity and environmental justice; 2) by leveraging the potential of new media by providing an easily accessible global platform for discussion and access to subject experts; 3) · by involving global stakeholders in global issue discussions by circumventing the logistical and financial barriers of traditional dialogue interactions; 4) by building ongoing connections and networks between these actors; 5) by crossing borders, whether disciplinary, philosophical, or geopolitical; and 6) · by maintaining a results-oriented focus;<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The goals of the EcoRes Forum are: 1) <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>to level the field of discourse by moving it to a space whose boundaries are set only by our own creativity; 2) to promote awareness, public dialogue and the free exchange and exploration of ideas, knowledge and issues related to climate change; 3) to leave all participants with something of value, whether knowledge, best practices, or a new perspective, which can be put to use immediately to improve efforts in their individual fields; and 4) by so doing, to contribute to taking the environmental movement to the next level and thereby, in some small way, to assist in preventing further extreme human-induced climate change.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>Science News</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="">(NEWS 1) <B>Blame for global warming placed firmly on humankind</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN><SPAN style=""></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn11088-blame-for-global-warming-placed-firmly-on-humankind.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn11088-blame-for-global-warming-placed-firmly-on-humankind.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>New Scientist<B> </B></SPAN><SPAN style="">–The most authoritative scientific report on climate change says with 90% certainty that the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities are driving climate change.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The report, from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says the rise in global temperatures could be as high as 6.4°C by 2100. The report also predicts sea level rises and increases in hurricanes.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The new IPCC report is the work of 3750 climate experts, who have spent six years reviewing all the available climate research. It was released in Paris, France, on Friday.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">*********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 2) <B>Panel Says Warming Caused by Humans</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/science/earth/02cnd-climate.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/science/earth/02cnd-climate.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/255usa"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/255usa</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>New York Times (Registration Required) - PARIS, Feb. 2 - The world is already committed to centuries of warming, shifting weather patterns and rising seas from the atmospheric buildup of gases that trap heat, but the warming can be substantially blunted by prompt action, an international network of climate experts said today.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The report released here represented the fourth assessment since 1990 by the group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations, of the causes and consequences of climate change. But for the first time the group asserted with near certainty - more than 90 percent confidence - that carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases from human activities were the main drivers of warming since 1950. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In its last report, in 2001, the panel, consisting of hundreds of scientists and reviewers, put the confidence level at between 66 and 90 percent. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 3) <B>Global climate report gets final polish before release</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Margaret Munro - CanWest News Service - Thursday, February 01, 2007 The report on the state of Earth's climate, to be released Friday, is one of the most scrutinized, heavily edited and carefully coded documents ever written.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Climatologists hope it also will have the power to change the world, and what humans are doing to it.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Almost three years in the making, with input from hundreds of researchers, the report is now undergoing a last-minute, closed-door edit by high-level government delegates and scientists in Paris.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"We'll be going over it line by line," says Francis Zwiers, a top Environment Canada scientist, and one of the researchers and government officials holed up near the Eiffel Tower negotiating how best to describe the remarkable changes underway as the planet warms.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Reports Wednesday suggested the experts are falling behind in their task of reaching consensus on the wording. All governments involved must agree on the language in the summary.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"We are at 30 per cent (complete) and we have used 60 per cent of our time," said Arthur Petersen, who represents the Dutch Environment Ministry.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Leaked drafts of Friday's report, widely quoted in the media in recent weeks, say the evidence of climate warming is "unequivocal." The change is visible in the air, oceans and melting ice and largely driven by ever-increasing human emissions of greenhouse gases.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The marathon session in Paris is massaging and tweaking the draft, which is just 12 to 15 pages long and summarizes the key findings of science teams that have produced an 11-chapter tome - more than 1,000 pages of eye-glazing detail to be published later this spring. Every word of the summary is being weighed with the kind of precision only scientists and bureaucrats could dream up.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For handy reference at the Paris meeting there is a 56-page technical summary, complete with a chart calibrating the meaning of loaded phrases - "virtually certain" means greater than 99 per cent probability, "likely" translates to more than 66 per cent, while "exceptionally unlikely" is less than one per cent probability.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The definitions are supposed to add precision to Friday's summary report. They also help counter last-minute attempts to water down or exaggerate the climate change underway.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"Our job is only to accept changes consistent with our chapter's findings," says Ken Denman, another Canadian researcher burning the midnight oil in Paris.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, was established in 1988 to bring together climate scientists to assess the risks posed by the billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane gas that humans pump into the atmosphere each year.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Scientists say there is little in IPCC reports that has not been widely reported in science journals and been the fodder of headlines for years.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What sets the reports apart, they say, is the way they pull all the pieces together, build consensus and command attention. As the IPCC delegation gathered in Paris this week there were already calls for a world summit on climate change from the United Nations Environment Programme.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Friday's report is based on the fourth assessment, Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, and focuses on how greenhouse gases have locked the planet into a human-induced warming trend that will be felt for centuries to come. Two other IPCC reports, to be released in April and May, will describe how society needs to adapt to the coming change and lay out options for cutting emissions.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The authors of this week's report say they have weighed all the evidence and theories about how and why temperatures are rising.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They have also assessed 19 climate models from labs and meteorological services around the world, including one run by Environment Canada's supercomputer in Dorval, Que., that replicate past climates with uncanny accuracy and forecast big change in coming decades.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Scientists from around the globe have been involved since 2004 - Denman's co-ordinated input from 14 lead authors and about 60 contributing authors for his chapter on how carbon moves between the land, ocean and atmosphere. Hundreds more have been writing and reviewing the other 10 chapters.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Critics and skeptics were encouraged to get involved."I actually was a bit pushy about it because I think if people are going to complain, then let them complain in a constructive way," Denman said in a recent interview in his office at the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis in Victoria, where he's on secondment from the Fisheries and Oceans Department.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>His chapter attracted 3,000 individual comments. "And we had to respond in writing to every single one," Denman says flipping through the thick binder holding them all.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"It's a brutal job," says Denman, an expert on the carbon cycle and IPCC veteran who helped write the 1995 report that helped focus international attention on the greenhouse gas problem.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Climatologist Andrew Weaver at the University of Victoria is also one of the nine Canadian researchers heavily involved in producing this year's report.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The debate between scientists has been right down to the wire. Two weeks ago Weaver says they were still arguing over the chance of an abrupt collapse of Atlantic currents that carry heat from the tropics to Europe.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is it "unlikely" (less than 33 per cent probability) or "very unlikely" (less than 10 per cent probability). "It took many hours, with many people around the world for that one paragraph," says Weaver.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Negotiators in Paris this week can - and are - haggling over the wording in the summary.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"But they can't change the science," says Weaver.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is already all laid out in the IPCC report, the final draft of which covers more than 1,000 pages. "It's an outstanding piece of scientific research, it covers all aspect of the climate," says Weaver, who is already using it for teaching and reference. "It's the go-to place for anything to do with climate science."<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The IPCC has its critics. Toronto geologist and climate blogger Steve McIntyre is harshly critical of the IPCC for delaying publication of the full report until three months after Friday's summary is released at a carefully orchestrated press conference.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"Unbelievable," says McIntyre, who has chastised the IPCC for having the "gall" to institutionalize a process that will generate enormous political pressure for action before the full details are made public. "Words fail me."<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Gordon McBean, a former Environment Canada official now at the University of Western Ontario, says the IPCC process could be more open and streamlined. "I think the process has actually become overly bureaucratic," says McBean.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"But I don't think the present process is controlled by government as some people argue," says McBean.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>McBean headed the Canadian delegation to the 1995 IPCC negotiations that concluded the balance of evidence suggests "a discernable human influence" on the global climate. The line helped lead to the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement that aims to, but has so far failed, to curb total global emissions.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This time around McBean is a reviewer for the upcoming IPCC assessment on the impacts of climate change and the need to adapt.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He says the more than 180 countries in the United Nations are party to the IPCC process and have the right to comment on Friday's summary, as long as the document stays true to the science.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"They all legitimately can participate," says McBean, who is unaware of any other documents that undergoes such intense review, debate and editing.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"Not that I know of," says McBean, who like many of his colleagues is hoping this week's report will jolt the world into making "significant" emission reductions.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">*********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica">(NEWS 4) <B>Indonesia could lose 2,000 islands to global warming by 2030</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style=""></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200701300312.htm"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200701300312.htm</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jakarta, Jan 30. (AP): Rising sea levels could inundate about 2,000 Indonesian islands by 2030, and rice shortages are expected next year due to wild weather blamed on climate change, the Environment Minister said on Monday.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The assessment by Rachmat Witoelar was the Government's bleakest, yet of global warming's potential effects on the mostly poor Southeast Asian nation of about 18,000 islands, most of them unpopulated.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>``It is very, very serious,'' Witoelar said at a news conference attended by Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the U.N. climate treaty secretariat.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Witoelar said, respected scientific studies showed about 2,000 islands would be swallowed by rising waters by 2030. He did not say whether the threatened islands were inhabited or not.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Delayed rains this year, followed by a hot spell, also hurt farmers. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>``It is feared there will be a lack of rice production next year because of the changes in the weather and because the farmers are not used to this,'' Witoelar said.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>De Boer was in Jakarta to discuss a major U.N. climate change meeting later this year on the Indonesian resort island of Bali. Environment Ministers from 80 countries will meet there to begin talks on what actions the world must take after the first commitment period of the Kyoto protocol expires in 2012.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica">********************<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 5) <B>New Climate Disclosure Standards Board launched -- company climate risk reporting</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.ceres.org/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.ceres.org</FONT></SPAN></A> <SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Ceres website), </SPAN><A href="http://www.incr.com/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.incr.com</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="">(Investor Network on Climate Risk website)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dear climate-l colleagues - </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am writing to inform you about the new international partnership of seven organizations announced today at the World Economic Forum to establish a generally accepted framework for climate risk-related reporting by corporations. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Founding members of the institutional consortium, the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB), include the California Climate Action Registry, Carbon Disclosure Project, Ceres, The Climate Group, International Emissions Trading Association, World Economic Forum Global Greenhouse Gas Register and World Resources Institute.<SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>CDSB member organizations have agreed to align their core requests for information from companies in order to ensure that they report climate change-related information in a standardized way that facilitates easier comparative analysis by investors, managers and the public. The focus will be on the disclosure of the following key climate issues in company annual reports: 1) Total emissions, <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>2) Assessment of the physical risks of climate change, <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>3) Assessment of the regulatory risks of climate change, and 4) Strategic analysis of climate risk and emissions management</SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>An advisory committee is being formed that will include industrial, financial services and accounting firms as well as other key stakeholders. In preparation, CDSB members met in Davos with representatives of Alcan; American International Group; Capital Group; Duke Energy Corporation; Ernst and Young; Royal Dutch/Shell; JP Morgan Chase; PricewaterhouseCoopers; SUN Group; Swiss Re and Tokyo Electric Power as well as United Kingdom Environment Minister Milliband; California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez; and United Nations Environment Programme Director General Achim Steiner.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If anyone has questions, please let me know.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Chris Fox, Director of Investor Programs, Ceres, <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="mailto:fox@ceres.org"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">fox@ceres.org</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">********************<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 6) <B>New Climate Report Too Rosy, Experts Say</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2007/01/29/new_climate_report_to"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2007/01/29/new_climate_report_to</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">o_rosy_experts_say/<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/2utbhn"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/2utbhn</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>the Boston Globe (Registration Required) - WASHINGTON -- Later this week in Paris, climate scientists will issue a dire forecast for the planet that warns of slowly rising sea levels and higher temperatures. But that may be the sugarcoated version.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Early and changeable drafts of their upcoming authoritative report on climate change foresee smaller sea level rises than were projected in 2001 in the last report. Many top U.S. scientists reject these rosier numbers. Those calculations don't include the recent, and dramatic, melt-off of big ice sheets in two crucial locations.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They "don't take into account the gorillas -- Greenland and Antarctica," said Ohio State University earth sciences professor Lonnie Thompson, a polar ice specialist. "I think there are unpleasant surprises as we move into the 21st century."<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica">********************<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 7) <B>World Scientists Near Consensus on Warming</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/world/30climate.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/world/30climate.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/2bq62y"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/2bq62y</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>New York Times (Registration Required) - PARIS, Jan. 29 - Scientists from across the world gathered Monday to hammer out the final details of an authoritative report on climate change that is expected to project centuries of rising temperatures and sea levels unless there are curbs in emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that trap heat in the atmosphere.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Scientists involved in writing or reviewing the report say it is nearly certain to conclude that there is at least a 90 percent chance that human- caused emissions are the main factor in warming since 1950. The report is the fourth since 1990 from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is overseen by the United Nations.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The report, several of the authors said, will describe a growing body of evidence that warming is likely to cause a profound transformation of the planet. Three large sections of the report will be forthcoming during the year. The first will be a summary for policy makers and information on basic climate science, which is expected to be issued on Friday.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">**********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 8) <B>On Global Warming, What US Can Learn from Europe</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0130/p02s01-usec.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0130/p02s01-usec.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or: </SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/38fuow"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/38fuow</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Christian Science Monitor - Momentum is building in the United States to fight global warming. And the most popular proposal to do that, at the moment, is through a nationwide "cap and trade" system.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At least three major Senate bills incorporate the idea. Large corporations, including big oil firms that until recently opposed such regulation, are backing the approach in theory. On Friday, the United Nations is slated to release a key report on the scientific consensus on global warming, which will put even more pressure on nations to act, analysts suggest.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But the real trick to effective legislation is in its details, a lesson that the European Union (EU) has learned the hard way as it prepares to cut greenhouse-gas emissions next year under the Kyoto treaty. So many companies emit so much carbon dioxide that the potential market for emissions trading is huge. Missteps could be costly, involving billions of dollars in unwitting subsidies or penalties for industries.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">***********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(NEWS 9) <B>Lawmakers hear of interference in global warming science; presidential hopefuls speak out.</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press - WASHINGTON — Federal scientists have been pressured by the White House to play down global warming, advocacy groups testified Tuesday at the Democrats' first investigative hearing since taking control of Congress. The hearing focused on allegations White House officials for years have micromanaged the government's climate programs and have closely controlled what scientists have been allowed to tell the public.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"It appears there may have been an orchestrated campaign to mislead the public about climate change," said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif. Waxman is chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee and a critic of the Bush administration's environmental policies, including its views on climate.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Climate change also was a leading topic in the Senate, where presidential contenders for 2008 lined up at a hearing called by Sen. Barbara Boxer. They expounded — and at times tried to outdo each other — on why they believed Congress must act to reduce heat-trapping "greenhouse" gases.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"This is a problem whose time has come," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., proclaimed.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"This is an issue over the years whose time has come," echoed Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said "for decades far too many have ignored the warning" about climate change. "Will we look back at today and say this was the moment we took a stand?"<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At the House hearing, two private advocacy groups produced a survey of 279 government climate scientists showing that many of them say they have been subjected to political pressure aimed at downplaying the climate threat. Their complaints ranged from a challenge to using the phrase "global warming" to raising uncertainty on issues on which most scientists basically agree, to keeping scientists from talking to the media.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The survey and separate interviews with scientists "has brought to light numerous ways in which U.S. federal climate science has been filtered, suppressed and manipulated in the last five years," Francesca Grifo, a senior scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, told the committee. Grifo's group, along with the Government Accountability Project, which helps whistle-blowers, produced the report.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Drew Shindell, a climate scientist with NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said that climate scientists frequently have been dissuaded from talking to the media about their research, though NASA's restrictions have been eased. Prior to the change, interview requests of climate scientists frequently were "routed through the White House" and then turned away or delayed, said Shindell. He described how a news release on his study forecasting a significant warming in Antarctica was "repeatedly delayed, altered and watered down" at the insistence of the White House.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some Republican members of the committee questioned whether science and politics ever can be kept separate. "I am no climate-change denier," said Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia, the top Republican on the committee, but he questioned whether "the issue of politicizing science has itself become politicized." "The mere convergence of politics and science does not itself denote interference," said Davis.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Administration officials were not called to testify. In the past the White House has said it has only sought to inject balance into reports on climate change. President Bush has acknowledged concerns about global warming, but he strongly opposes mandatory caps of greenhouse gas emissions, arguing that approach would be too costly.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Roger Pielke Jr., a political scientist at the University of Colorado who was invited by GOP lawmakers, said "the reality is that science and politics are intermixed." Pielke maintained that "scientific cherry picking" can be found on both sides of the climate debate. He took a swipe at the background memorandum Waxman had distributed and maintained that it exaggerated the scientific consensus over the impact of climate change on hurricanes.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Waxman and Davis agreed the administration had not been forthcoming in providing documents to the committee that would shed additional light on allegations of political interference in climate science. "We know that the White House possesses documents that contain evidence of an attempt by senior administration officials to mislead the public by injecting doubt into the science of global warming and minimize the potential danger," said Waxman, adding that he is "not trying to obtain state secrets."<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At Boxer's Senate hearing, her predecessor as chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., had his own view of the science. There is "no convincing scientific evidence" that human activity is causing global warming, declared Inhofe, who once called global warming a hoax. "We all know the Weather Channel would like to have people afraid all the time."<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"I'll put you down as skeptical," replied Boxer.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:Helvetica">********************** </SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(NEWS 10) <B>France Tells U.S. to Sign Climate Pacts or Face Tax</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/world/europe/01climate.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/world/europe/01climate.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://tinyurl.com/324p59"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://tinyurl.com/324p59</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>New York Times (Registration Required) - PARIS, Jan. 31 - President Jacques Chirac has demanded that the United States sign both the Kyoto climate protocol and a future agreement that will take effect when the Kyoto accord runs out in 2012. He said that he welcomed last week's State of the Union address in which President Bush described climate change as a "serious challenge" and acknowledged that a growing number of American politicians now favor emissions cuts.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But he warned that if the United States did not sign the agreements, a carbon tax across Europe on imports from nations that have not signed the Kyoto treaty could be imposed to try to force compliance. The European Union is the largest export market for American goods.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"A carbon tax is inevitable," Mr. Chirac said. "If it is European, and I believe it will be European, then it will all the same have a certain influence because it means that all the countries that do not accept the minimum obligations will be obliged to pay."<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings, Opportunities</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(MEETINGS 1) <B>International Young Scholar Network for Earth Systems Science - Third Workshop - June 2-5, 2007 - Bristol (UK)</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="http:/ww.aimes.ucar.edu/activities/YSN/2007_UK/YSN_BRISTOL.shtml"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http:///ww.aimes.ucar.edu/activities/YSN/2007_UK/YSN_BRISTOL.shtml</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This small workshop will focus on understanding decision making on land-use issues, in order to move towards modelling these processes in Earth System Models. We encourage interdisciplinary applicants from the natural and social sciences, economics, engineers and scholars from the humanities with research interests in the Earth system. The goal of the YSN workshop will be a manuscript reviewing the state-of-art in decision-making in land-use modelling and its impacts on biogeochemistry and climate from an Earth’s System perspective, and prioritise future research topics. Participants will be expected to write whitepapers before the workshop, and continue finalizing the manuscript after the workshop.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>AIMES is a Core Project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Project (IGBP). Approximately, 25 young scholars (within 10 years of Ph.D.) will be supported to attend the YSN meeting, pending funding. To apply, send your CV, statement of research interests and a letter of recommendation from your supervisor or department head to </SPAN><A href="mailto:marko.scholze@bristol.ac.uk"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">marko.scholze@bristol.ac.uk</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""> <B>by February 28, 2007.</B></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">***************************************************</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><B>Jobs</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Planktonnet: Great listserv for aquatic-science jobs<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">To subscribe to the list, send an empty email to:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><A href="mailto:planktonnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">planktonnet-subscribe@yahoogroups.com</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">Or, visit <A href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planktonnet/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planktonnet/</FONT></SPAN></A> and click on 'Join this group'<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">********************<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(JOB 1) <B>Postdoc - Tropical Climate Change - Rosenstiel School</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B>of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences - University of Miami, FL (USA)</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Miami invites applications for a post-doctoral research assistant in Tropical Climate Change. This position involves the use of satellite observations and a hierarchy of atmospheric and coupled climate models to investigate decadal to centennial changes in the tropical atmospheric circulation and their connection to tropical cloud feedbacks. The successful candidate should have a background in climate and experience in analyzing satellite data and/or climate model simulations. The position is being offered for one year with the possibility of renewal for up to two additional years. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B>Review of the applications will begin immediately</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> and continue until the position is filled. Applicants should send their Curriculum Vitae and a list of three references to: Amy Clement, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149. For further information please contact Dr. Clement by phone: (305) 421-4846 or email: </SPAN><A href="mailto:aclement@rsmas.miami.edu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">aclement@rsmas.miami.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">********************<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(JOB 2) <B>Post Doc - Participatory Appraisal of EU climate change policies - The Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – (The Netherlands)</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) is looking for a researcher in environmental science, social science, or policy studies to join the work on the Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies: Supporting European Climate Policy (ADAM) project that is funded by the European Union. The contract will be conditional of availability of funding.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The ADAM project: ADAM - ADaptation And Mitigation Strategies: Supporting European Climate Policy – is an Integrated Project funded by the European Commission under FP6, which started in March 2006. The ADAM project aims to give insight into the synergies and conflicts that exist between adaptation and mitigation policies. Crucially, ADAM aims to support EU policy development in the next stage of the development of the Kyoto Protocol, in particular negotiations around a post-2012 global climate policy regime, and will inform the emergence of new adaptation strategies for Europe. The main impact of the ADAM project will be to improve the quality and relevance of scientific contributions to the development and evaluation of climate change policy options within the European Commission. This will help the Commission to deliver on its current medium-term climate policy objectives and help inform its development of a longer-term climate strategy.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tasks: The post will take a pivotal role in the ongoing work in the ADAM project to develop and apply a highly innovative new methodology for the appraisal of climate change policy options. This Policy Appraisal Framework (PAF) makes use of participatory methods, modelling tools and policy analysis approaches, in order to bring together diverse information about the impacts and implications of particular climate change policy options. The key part of the development is to integrate the various elements (building blocks) into participatory appraisal, and support case studies in their application of the PAF. In particular, this post will apply the PAF to the case study of the European electricity sector, through appraising current proposals by the EU Commission and other European policy actors. (The other major ADAM case studies focus on EU development assistance, the post-2012 international climate regime, and regional policy.) This task involves a structured process of exploring and appraising policy options in deliberative exercises with relevant stakeholders of the European electricity sector, and evaluating the results.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Requirements:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are looking for an innovative and forward thinking researcher with a formal academic training to PhD level in a social, environmental or policy science discipline. Candidates should have previous academic research experience in the areas of policy analysis, institutions, and participatory integrated assessment of climate change. In addition to these core skills, it will be an advantage to have knowledge of European climate change policy, in particular of the electricity sector. Also, the candidate should take into account that the project implies a fair amount of travelling through Europe. Besides excellent research skills, we would prefer someone who is highly organised, a good team worker, who can work independently, who has excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, and who is confident in networking with a wide range of scientists and other stakeholders involved in climate policy. Candidates with recent direct research experience on policy issues regarding the electricity sector, at the international, EU or national level are especially welcome to apply.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Salary: The position will be made on a 0,8 fte basis, in salary scale 11 (which, on a full time appointment, ranges from 3024 to 4140 euro per month). The appointment will be for 2 years.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Additional information: Informal enquiries regarding this post can be obtained from Dr. Marleen van de Kerkhof at </SPAN><A href="mailto:marleen.van.de.kerkhof@ivm.vu.nl"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">marleen.van.de.kerkhof@ivm.vu.nl</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">, or 31-(0)20-5989531. Please also have a look at the project's website: </SPAN><A href="http://www.adamproject.eu"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.adamproject.eu</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">/<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Applications: Written applications including a CV should be addressed within 2 weeks after this announcement (editor note:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>the website listed this news as dated 01/02/07) to the Vrije Universiteit, dr. J.M.R.M. Neutelings, Managing Director, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands (the vacancy number 1.2007.00030 should be mentioned on the letter and on the envelop) or email to: </SPAN><A href="mailto:falw-vacature@falw.vu.nl"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">falw-vacature@falw.vu.nl</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">.</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">*********************</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">(JOB 3) <B>Postdoctoral fellowship - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) - Vienna, (Austria</B></SPAN><SPAN style="">)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/YSP/pdoc/index.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/YSP/pdoc/index.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B>The application deadline is February 15, 2007.</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="">IIASA is an international institution, supported by eighteen governments, that supports international teams of researchers engaged in studies aimed at providing policy insight on issues of regional and global importance. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Candidates for the IIASA Postdoctoral Program can apply to work with any of IIASA's sixteen research programs or special projects. (Overview of IIASA's research activities.) An essential part of the on-line application is a research plan outlining the intended work at IIASA and a discussion of the relevance of the planned research for IIASA's agenda. Applicants are encouraged to contact the leader of the IIASA program of interest as they prepare their applications. Applicants must have an advanced university degree equivalent to a Ph.D at the time of taking up the post-doc position, a proven record of research <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>accomplishments, and a solid working knowledge of English. The typical period for IIASA-funded postdoctoral support is 12-24 months.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is an excellent postdoctoral opportunity for researchers from natural and social sciences, mathematics, and engineering who are interested working on global change issues. We want to spread the word about this great opportunity as widely as possible.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Please help by forwarding this announcement to your committee members and colleagues who might know appropriate candidates.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To learn more about IIASA, consult the IIASA Website (</SPAN><A href="http://www.iiasa.ac.at/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">www.iiasa.ac.at</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In addition, an October 13, 2006 Science profile of IIASA researcher Brian O'Neill can be accessed from the U.S. NMO website, </SPAN><A href="http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-iiasa/index.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-iiasa/index.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="">. US IIASA NMO website: </SPAN><A href="http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-iiasa/index.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-iiasa/index.html</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">**************************************************</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">This n</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">ewsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler to distribute information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate-change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. 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