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Combating Climate Change – The University of Montana Looks at Ways to Neutralize Its Carbon Footprint by 2020, Starting with Initiatives Right Now

Steve Running’s UM office is decorated with climate change papers, stacks of climate books, and his bicycle. On one wall hangs the Nobel Peace Prize, an award he shares with 600 other scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for three 2007 climate change reports.

But now, three years after the IPCC released the reports, the Regents Professor of Ecology in UM’s School of Forestry and Conservation says he’s witnessed setbacks. A recent Gallup poll reveals a measurable slip in the amount of confidence the public has in the IPCC results. In fact, about 12 to15 percent of U.S. citizens who once thought climate change was an issue no longer believe it is.

“That’s millions and millions of people in the U.S.,” says Running. “We never imagined we’d have to re-argue the same case over again with the same data. But it shows you how shallow the understanding of climate science really is.”

Erika Fredrickson

Full Story: http://www.umt.edu/montanan/s10/Combating%20Climate%20Change.asp

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