See posting below for links to summary
articles on climate destabilization in the online “Encyclopedia of Earth”.
--TR
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Thomas K. Rohrer, Asst. Prof. & Director
Environmental Studies Program
318 Brooks Hall
Mt. Pleasant MI 48859
U. S. A.
Ph. (989) 774-4409
email = tom.rohrer@cmich.edu
CMU Environmental Studies Program information
is available at:
http://www.cst.cmich.edu/units/env/
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From:
news-bounces@lists.earthportal.org [mailto:news-bounces@lists.earthportal.org] On Behalf Of eoe@eoearth.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:29
AM
To: news@lists.earthportal.org
Subject: [EP-News] Climate Change
in the Encyclopedia of Earth
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the launch of the Climate
Change Collection in the Encyclopedia
of Earth:
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Climate_Change_%28collection%29
The Collection is anchored by an electronic version of
the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change Nobel Prize-winning reports. It also includes
articles by climate experts, biographies of individuals who have made important
contributions to climate science and policy, a timeline of key events in the history
of climate science and policy, a climate glossary, and much more. Scientists,
educators, environmental professionals and concerned citizens should find the
Collection to be an invaluable resource.
We seek to expand the Collection with articles on a wide
rage of climate-relate’ topics and written for a large and diverse global
audience. We encourage potential contributors to contact
us.
Please circulate these links among your networks.
With best regards,
Cutler J. Cleveland
Professor of Geography and Environment,
Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Earth
Online Encyclopedia Adds Preeminent
Climate Change Reports to Its Collection
Encyclopedia of Earth adds
Nobel-prize winning reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The
reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were recently
added to the EoE’s collection and are now accessible here. A program of the United Nations
Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organization, the IPCC
publishes periodic reports on the worldwide scientific consensus about climate
change and its potential impacts. The
reports are intended to provide decision-makers and interested citizens with
the latest objective information about climate change. The IPCC received the
2007 Nobel Peace Prize for its work.
Mohan
Munasinghe, Vice-Chair of the IPCC and a member of the EoE's Advisory Board,
praised the publishing partnership, noting that the work of the world's
foremost authority on climate change is now reaching a much broader audience
through one of the most trusted sources of environmental information available
on the internet.
"I
am delighted that our efforts to link the IPCC and EoE have borne fruit through
this publishing agreement," Munasinghe said. " It will make key
information on climate change readily accessible to everyone, and bring
enormous benefits to stakeholders ranging from high level decision makers,
policy analysts and researchers, to students and the concerned public."
Launched
in 2006, the EoE is the first free, expert-driven, massively scaleable online
information resource about the environment.
Hundreds of the world's leading scientists and educators write and edit
articles for the encyclopedia on a variety of topics.
“Climate
change is now center stage in public awareness and political agendas”
noted Cutler Cleveland, Editor-in-Chief of the EoE and professor of Geography
an Environment at
The
Encyclopedia of Earth is one component of the Earth Portal, published by the
National Council for Science and the Environment in
For more information, visit www.eoearth.org
and www.earthportal.org.
