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Mentor Session 1
CONS:
Scientists who disagree that human activity is the direct cause of global warming and the
consensus of scientists who support that human activity is accelerating global warming
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Sallie Baliunas Ph.D. astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in
the Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences Division
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~wsoon/1000yrclimatehistory-d/Jan30ClimateResearchpaper.pdf
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
David H. Douglass American physicist at the University of Rochester.
http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~douglass/papers/Published%20JOC1651.pdf
PROS:
Scientists who support that human activity is the direct cause of accelerated global warming
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Hilary H. Birks Ph.D. Botanical Institute, University of Bergen
Two terrestrial records of rapid climatic change during the glacial-Holocene transition
(14,000- 9,000 calendar years B.P.) from Europe PNAS 2000 97:1390-1394;
doi:10.1073/pnas.97.4.1390
http://www.pnas.org/content/97/4/1390.full.pdf+html
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Joseph L. Kirschvink Ph.D. Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, ‡Jet Propulsion
Laboratory
Paleoproterozoic snowball Earth: Extreme climatic and geochemical global change and its
biological consequences PNAS 2000 97:1400-1405; doi:10.1073/pnas.97.4.1400
http://www.pnas.org/content/97/4/1400.full.pdf+html
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Mark B. Dyurgerov Ph.D. Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and ‡Department of
Geological Sciences, University of Colorado
Twentieth century climate change: Evidence from small glaciers PNAS 2000 97:1406-1411;
doi:10.1073/pnas.97.4.1406
http://www.pnas.org/content/97/4/1406.full.pdf+html
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Dennis L. Hartmann Ph.D. Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of
Washington
Can ozone depletion and global warming interact to produce rapid climate change? PNAS
2000 97:1412-1417; doi:10.1073/pnas.97.4.1412
http://www.pnas.org/content/97/4/1412.full.pdf+html
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Brad Lobitz Ph.D. Johnson Controls World Services, Center for Health Applications of
Aerospace Related Technologies
Climate and infectious disease: Use of remote sensing for detection of Vibrio cholerae by
indirect measurement PNAS 2000 97:1438-1443; doi:10.1073/pnas.97.4.1438
http://www.pnas.org/content/97/4/1438.full.pdf+html
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
David W. Inouye Ph.D. Department of Biology, University of Maryland
Climate change is affecting altitudinal migrants and hibernating species PNAS 2000 97:16301633; doi:10.1073/pnas.97.4.1630
http://www.pnas.org/content/97/4/1630.full.pdf+html
POLITICIANS
Decision makers and power to implement change at a national level
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) United States Senate Committee on Environment and
Public Works
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public
Works
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Senator Christopher Bond (R-MO) United States Senate Committee on Environment and
Public Works
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Senator David Vitter (R-LA) United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public
Works
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) United States Senate Committee on Environment and
Public Works
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) United States Senate Committee on Environment and
Public Works
http://www.votesmart.org/index.htm
Mentor Session 2
CONS:
Scientists who disagree that human activity is the direct cause of global warming and the
consensus of scientists who support that human activity is accelerating global warming
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
David Russell Legates Ph.D. Delaware State Climatologist, and an associate professor at the
University of Delaware (have to go through our library online access to get article):
Legates DR (2007) An Inconvenient Truth : a focus on its portrayal of the hydrologic cycle.
GeoJournal 70(1) Pp 15-19.
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
R. Timothy Patterson, Ph.D., is a professor of geology, Department of Earth Sciences,
Carleton University as well as Director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre in Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada
http://fossil.earthsci.carleton.ca/~tpatters/pubs2/2007/patterson2007margeol242_123-140.pdf
PROS:
Scientists who support that human activity is the direct cause of accelerated global warming
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Wallace S. Broecker Ph.D. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
Was a change in thermohaline circulation responsible for the Little Ice Age? PNAS 2000
97:1339-1342; doi:10.1073/pnas.97.4.1339
http://www.pnas.org/content/97/4/1339.full.pdf+html
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
L. D. Keigwin Ph.D. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Detecting Holocene changes in thermohaline circulation PNAS 2000 97:1343-1346;
doi:10.1073/pnas.97.4.1343
http://www.pnas.org/content/97/4/1343.full.pdf+html
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Jochem Marotzke Ph.D. School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton
Abrupt climate change and thermohaline circulation: Mechanisms and predictability PNAS
2000 97:1347-1350; doi:10.1073/ pnas.97.4.1347
http://www.pnas.org/content/97/4/1347.full.pdf+html
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Thomas V. Lowell Ph.D. Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati
As climate changes, so do glaciers PNAS 2000 97:1351-1354; doi:10.1073/pnas.97.4.1351
http://www.pnas.org/content/97/4/1351.full.pdf+html
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
R. T. Pierrehumbert Ph.D. Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago
Climate change and the tropical Pacific: The sleeping dragon wakes PNAS 2000 97:13551358; doi:10.1073/pnas.97.4.1355
http://www.pnas.org/content/97/4/1355.full.pdf+html
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Dorothy Peteet Ph.D. NASA
Sensitivity and rapidity of vegetational response to abrupt climate change PNAS 2000
97:1359-1361; doi:10.1073/pnas.97.4.1359
http://www.pnas.org/content/97/4/1359.full.pdf+html
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Thomas F. Stocker Ph.D. Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University
of Bern, Abrupt climate change in the computer: Is it real? PNAS 2000 97:1362-1365;
doi:10.1073/pnas.97.4.1362
http://www.pnas.org/content/97/4/1362.full.pdf+html
POLITICIANS
Decision makers and power to implement change at a national level
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) – United States Senate Committee on Environment and
Public Works
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) United States Senate Committee on Environment and
Public Works
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Senator Larry E. Craig (R-ID) United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public
Works
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA) United States Senate Committee on Environment and
Public Works
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public
Works
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Senator Frank R Lautenberg (D-NJ) United States Senate Committee on Environment and
Public Works
http://www.votesmart.org/index.htm
Mentor Session 3
CONS:
Scientists who disagree that human activity is the direct cause of global warming and the
consensus of scientists who support that human activity is accelerating global warming
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Stephen Schwartz, Ph.D. Brookhaven National Lab
http://www.ecd.bnl.gov/steve/pubs/HeatCapacity.pdf
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Willie Soon Ph.D. astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~wsoon/1000yrclimatehistory-d/Jan30ClimateResearchpaper.pdf
PROS:
Scientists who support that human activity is the direct cause of accelerated global warming
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Thomas Knutson Ph.D. US Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory NOAA
http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/reference/bibliography/2004/tk0401.pdf
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Gerald A. Meehl Ph.D. Climate and Global Dynamics Division
National Center for Atmospheric Research
http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/ccr/publications/2007GL030948_meehl_usextremes.pdf
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Reto A. Ruedy, Ph.D., NASA
http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2007/2007_Hansen_etal_1.pdf
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Gavin Schmidt Ph.D., NASA
http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2006/2006_Schmidt_etal_1.pdf
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Steven M. Stanley Ph.D.
The past climate change heats up PNAS 2000 97:1319; doi:10.1073/pnas.97.4.1319
http://www.pnas.org/content/97/4/1319.full.pdf+html
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Richard B. Alley Ph.D. Environment Institute and Department of Geosciences, The
Pennsylvania State University
Ice-core evidence of abrupt climate changes PNAS 2000 97:1331-1334;
doi:10.1073/pnas.97.4.1331
http://www.pnas.org/content/97/4/1331.full.pdf+html
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Jonathan Overpeck Ph.D. NOAA Paleoclimatology Program,
Nonglacial rapid climate events: Past and future PNAS 2000 97:1335-1338;
doi:10.1073/pnas.97.4.1335
http://www.pnas.org/content/97/4/1335.full.pdf+html
POLITICIANS
Decision makers and power to implement change at a national level
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) – Chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and
Public Works
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Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) – Cosponsor of the Carper-Alexander Clean Air Planning Act
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) – United States Senate Committee on Environment and
Public Works — Ranking Minority Member
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) – United States Senate Committee on Environment and
Public Works
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) – United States Senate Committee on Environment and
Public Works
Student assigned to: _____________________________________________________________
Senator John Warner (R-VA) – United States Senate Committee on Environment and
Public Works
http://www.votesmart.org/index.htm