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University of Montana launches climate change degree program

If we all think it’s hard to understand health care legislation, wait until climate change really hits Congress.

"The energy and climate legislation is going to be way worse than health care," University of Montana forestry professor Steve Running said Thursday. "We Earth scientists have dreaded for years when we’d finally get to the political battles over what to do – that’s not what we scientists are good at."

What they are good at is teaching people, and that’s why UM is opening a climate change studies minor degree program this year. Running directs the university’s Climate Change Studies Program http://www.cfc.umt.edu/CCS/ , and his work with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change earned a share of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

By ROB CHANEY of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/news/local/article_3ce8d10e-ba10-11de-a529-001cc4c03286.html

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Military experts talk about climate change

Story by Carmen George

Global warming is making the United States vulnerable because energy, climate change and national security are all inextricably linked, said Dennis McGinn, a retired vice admiral of the U.S. Navy, to a packed audience of more than 250 people at the University of Montana Thursday night.

McGinn said global warming is definitely occurring and climate change legislation needs to happen now.

Full Story: http://www.montanakaimin.com/index.php/news/news_article/military_experts_talk_about_climate_change/

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