Nov252009
Climate change’s effect on N.H.
Filed under Environment by david brooks at 9:20 am
Although ClimateEmailGate has roiled the whole debate over human effects on climate change - politics raises its ugly head in science - there’s no debate that climate is changing, and it will effect us here. If you want to learn more (and maybe get really depressed, which is a drawback of learning more about a depressing topic), there’s a free talk coming up after Thanksgiving you may want to attend.
Steve Miller of the Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve and The Climate Project will discuss the impacts to the ocean and coastal environments. Eric Orff of the National Wildlife Federation explores how climate change has and will continue to change wildlife behavior and survival. Tom Lee of the University of New Hampshire will talk about changes to New Hampshire’s forests.
On Tuesday, December 8, from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. at the Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve’s Hugh Gregg Coastal Conservation Center in Greenland, which is next to Portsmouth.
These presentations are free, but please RSVP with your name, phone number, (and organization and title, if applicable) by emailing Steve.Miller@wildlife.nh.gov or call 603-778-0015.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Yea. Politics has been effecting this debate for years. The “Scientific” organization that has been telling us man-made global warming is going to destroy the planet is a bigoted political organization, who deliberatelly hid scientific information to push their own agenda.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Thank goodness Science is based on collection of factual data. The word was Ecology in the 70's when responding to things like the Love Canal. What will convince folks …. death tolls I am starting to think. Tragic.
November 27th, 2009 at 8:37 am
“Bigoted”? Wow, that's the first time I've heard that word over climate science!
The question is, as you say, whether beliefs (”agenda”) have led researchers/activists to fudge the science and mislead us. There are plenty of circumstances in the past when that has happened; perhaps this is another one.
Part of me hopes that it's true, frankly. I've gotten tired of thinking that my grandkids are going to grow up in an ecologically ravaged world. Wouldn't it be nice if that fear was a delusion?