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Climate talk’s cancellation splits a U.S. town – Choteau, Montana High School cancels speech by Nobel Prize winner Dr. Steven Running

Since he shared the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming, Steve Running http://www.forestry.umt.edu/personnel/faculty/swr/ has grown used to spending time on the phone with reporters.

But Wednesday took the cake.

“I’ve been on the phone to the New York Times about every 20 minutes,” said Running, an ecology professor and global climate scientist at the University of Montana.

The topic of all those calls was Running’s recent visit to Choteau, where he gave his standard climate speech to about 150 folks gathered in the Choteau High School http://www.choteauschools.net/ gymnasium last Thursday night.

The topic wasn’t the speech, however. It was a second speech Running never delivered that so interested the Times. And more than an ungiven speech, it was the specter of a Nobel laureate being temporarily silenced in his own state.

There were supposed to be two speeches in Choteau last Thursday. The evening speech was sponsored by the Sonoran Institute http://sonoran.org/ , an environmental group with offices around the West. The second speech would be given to high school students during the day.

By MICHAEL MOORE of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/01/17/news/local/news02.txt

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CCM- Global Climate Change: The Science Is In – Now What? Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Dr. Steve Running, 1/18, Missoula http://matr.net/article-27151.html

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Climate talk’s cancellation splits a U.S. town

By Jim Robbins in the International Herald Tribune

CHOTEAU, Montana: School authorities’ cancellation of a talk that a Nobel laureate climate researcher was to have given to high school students has deeply divided this small farming and ranching town at the base of the east side of the Rocky Mountains.

The scholar, Steven Running, a professor of ecology at the University of Montana, was scheduled to speak to about 130 students here last Thursday about his career and the global changes occurring because of the earth’s warming.

Full Story: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/17/america/17climate.php

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Climate Talk’s Cancellation Splits a Town

By JIM ROBBINS in the NY Times

CHOTEAU, Mont. — School authorities’ cancellation of a talk that a Nobel laureate climate researcher was to have given to high school students has deeply divided this small farming and ranching town at the base of the east side of the Rocky Mountains.

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/17/us/17climate.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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Climate scientist shares global warming research

By Nancy Thornton-Acantha reporter in Choteau, Montana

It took just 12 days for the ash from the Mount St. Helens eruption on May 18, 1980, to circle the earth, a clear indication that the atmosphere is perpetually in motion and able to affect the climate on a global scale.

So began Nobel Peace Prize recipient Steve Running who spoke to an audience of 140 people in the Choteau High School auditorium on Jan. 10. With charts, graphs and anecdotes about the record-setting weather last summer in Missoula, Running introduced the audience to the main culprit of global warming: greenhouse gas emissions. The Sonoran Institute sponsored his presentation.

Full Story: http://www.choteauacantha.com/articles/2008/01/17/news/news1.txt

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Nobel Winner’s Talk Cancelled in Choteau

Montana school board pressures superintendent to cancel speech by local scientist who shared Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. Students wonder why.

Pity the poor school superintendent.

It’s hard enough to make the classrooms work — but to also be asked to referee the debate about global warming can be too much. It was certainly too much for Kevin St. John, superintendent of the Choteau School District, located in northwest Montana on the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains.

Full Story: http://www.dailyyonder.com/nobel-winners-talk-cancelled-choteau

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