City Club Missoula - The Climate Change Debate that Shouldn't Be. Steve Running on the Perils of Pseudo Science
| January 19, 2008 |  View for printing |
“It’s like turning the Titanic. We need to start turning now.”
University of Montana scientist Steve Running http://www.forestry.umt.edu/personnel/faculty/swr/ , who shares a piece of the Nobel Prize, told a packed City Club Missoula http://www.cityclubmissoula.org audience Friday that Americans need to learn how to decipher pseudo science from substantiated research in order to understand global warming.
By Jessica Mayrer,
Full Story: http://www.newwest.net/city/article/ ... ence/C8/L8/
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Choteau School Board decision to cancel speech took away a unique opportunity to learn http://matr.net/article-27349.html
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Former St. Mary's principal on the hot seat
By Peter Vandergrift, Enterprise Staff Writer
The superintendent at the Choteau School District who became embroiled in controversy this week after inviting, then disinviting, a Nobel Prize winning scientist to speak to Choteau high school students was previously the principal at St. Mary’s Catholic School in Livingston.
Kevin St. John was principal at St. Mary’s School from 2005 to 2008.
St. John said the decision to cancel the Wednesday presentation to the ninth through 12th grade students was made because he did not have time to quell the misunderstanding in the community about what scientist Steve Running was presenting.
According to St. John, community members voiced their disapproval of the Running school presentation to trustees, who discussed the issue with him.
He then made the decision to cancel the talk.
“I think the decision is explainable and understandable,” said St. John, Friday. “The whole thing was surreal.”
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EPA Turns Over Limited Documents
By SAMANTHA YOUNG Associated Press Writer
Invoking executive privilege, the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday refused to provide lawmakers with a full explanation of why it rejected California's greenhouse gas regulations.
The EPA informed Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., that many of the documents she had requested contained internal deliberations or attorney-client communications that would not be shared now with Congress.
Full Story: http://news.wired.com/dynamic/storie ... 19-01-31-32
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What Washington Can Learn from Montana (at least most of us) when it comes to efforts to reduce global warming http://matr.net/article-27324.html
Climate talk's cancellation splits a U.S. town - Choteau, Montana High School cancels speech by Nobel Prize winner Dr. Steven Running http://matr.net/article-27304.html
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