“Even if there is no additional climate warming,” said Zwally, “sea level will continue to rise, about 16 inches over the next hundred years.”
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“The important and very difficult issue to deal with is who is going to take action, where is this action going to take place, and who is going to pay for it,” said OECD Lorents Lorentsen. Hear more from Lorentsen …
Listen to Jerry Melillo, an ecologist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole Massachusetts. He and his colleagues are working to document climate change impacts already occurring in the U.S.
Climate scientist Stephen Schneider of Stanford spoke about avoidable and unavoidable climate impacts.
“We have the incredible challenge of living well, while we transform our energy system,” said Robert Socolow of Princeton University. Socolow spoke at the March 2009 climate summit in Washington DC.
A former CIA director says a switch to plug-in hybrid vehicles could strengthen national security and help forestall climate change.
Even in a tough economy like we’re seeing in 2009 – limiting carbon emissions might lead to economic opportunities, according to Albert Carnesale of UCLA. He’s an expert on international affairs and security and chairman of a U.S. National Academy of Sciences committee on America’s Climate Choices.
National Academy of Sciences president Ralph Cicerone talks about America’s choices in response to climate change.














