"Five Stages Of Climate Grief", Dr. Steven Running (He Just Won The Nobel!), 11/26, University Of Montana, Missoula
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| November 15, 2007 |  View for printing |
UM ecologist and forestry Professor Steve Running, one of the nation’s foremost experts on climate change, will speak about global warming and his "Five Stages of Climate Grief" on Monday, Nov. 26.
The presentation will begin at 4 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. A reception to honor Running’s recent share of the Nobel Peace Prize will follow at 5 p.m.
The event is free and open to the public.
Running directs the College of Forestry and Conservation’s Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group http://www.ntsg.umt.edu . He has been at UM since 1979 and has long worked to bring people information about the human impact on global warming and ways individuals can make a difference.
His work as a lead author of the 2007 United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report – which presents strong evidence that humanity is artificially warming our world -- recently brought him a share of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the IPCC committee and Al Gore.
"I never thought my name and the words ‘Nobel Laureate’ would ever be used in the same sentence," Running said. "I really hope this award will help bury the disingenuous climate change deniers once and for all."
To read Running's "Five Stages of Climate Grief," visit http://www.ntsg.umt.edu. 
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Hello, The five stages make for a nice speech especially when you can get paid for it. Unfortunately, too many "believers" are quoting this and other statements and calling questioners "deniers". Too many supporters of AGW are also saying "the science is in, there is no more debate" To this I say - That is also a form of denial when one cannot question the "science". I am a questioner and I have two for you which nobody has answered properly. a) Where is the quantitative derivation for the assertion that a doubling of atmospheric CO2 will raise the global atmospheric temperature by 2.5, or X degrees, or even cool it? b) Can you name one scientific study which MEASURES the amount or percentage of the warming that Carbon Dioxide has caused? Can you justify how NOAA and NASA "adjust" the temperatures used in the calculation of the global temperatures. Can you give the reasons that the temperatures around the world have been modified or not adjusted? NOAA and NASA have not. Can you show why cities with half a million people in China are classified as "rural"? You state that global air temperatures of the last dozen years were the warmest in a millennium. Have you done the work on this or have you verified this? This is based on work by people like Michael Mann who has not archived his work along with some of his cohorts. Lonnie Thompson, who is quoted by Al Gore has not archived most of his ice core data. How can anyone do an independent verification on these studies? The studies that suggest we are the warmest in a thousand years are highly dependent on one set of trees, the Bristlecone Pine, which competent dendrochronologists say should not be used for temperature proxies as other effects dominate the growth. Note that since 1998 there has been no significant warming - in other words we could be at a peak. But the past trend is still being milked. I look forward to your response to my two questions. --Gerald Machnee
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