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Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast
No full textThis is a 2006 report on climate change by the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA) Synthesis Team. It is the product of a collaborative research effort that drew on advances in climate modeling to assess how global warming may further affect the Northeast's climate. Using projections from three state-of-the-art global climate models, the report compared the types and magnitude of climate changes that will result from two different scenarios of future heat-trapping emissions. The first (the higher-emissions scenario) is a future where people - individuals, communities, businesses, states, and nations - allow emissions to continue growing rapidly, and the second (the lower-emissions scenario) is one in which societies choose to rely less on fossil fuels and adopt more resource-efficient technologies.A Report of the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA)NECIA is collaborative effort between the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and a team of independent expertsPurpose: To report the 2006 findings of the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA
The Changing Northeast Climate: Our Choices, Our Legacy
No full textThis is a summary of a 2006 report on climate change by the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA) Synthesis Team. It is the product of a collaborative research effort that drew on advances in climate modeling to assess how global warming may further affect the Northeast's climate. Using projections from three state-of-the-art global climate models, the report compared the types and magnitude of climate changes that will result from two different scenarios of future heat-trapping emissions. The first (the higher-emissions scenario) is a future where people - individuals, communities, businesses, states, and nations - allow emissions to continue growing rapidly, and the second (the lower-emissions scenario) is one in which societies choose to rely less on fossil fuels and adopt more resource-efficient technologies.NECIA is collaborative effort between the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and a team of independent expertsPurpose: To summarize a 2006 report on the findings of the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
No full textThe homepage of the Union of Concerned Scientists provides visitors with an overview of the science community's concern with environmental issues, energy policy, scientific integrity, and public health. Materials include news articles, reports, and suggestions for people who wish to become active in promoting these issues. Educational levels: High school, Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division, General public
New Jersey: Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast
No full textThis is a fact sheet for New Jersey based on a 2007 report on climate change in the northeast U.S. by the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA) Synthesis Team. In October 2006, the NECIA released a report titled Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast, the product of a collaborative research effort that drew on recent advances in climate modeling to assess how global warming may further affect the Northeast's climate. Using projections from three state-of-the-art global climate models, the report compared the types and magnitude of climate changes that will result from two different scenarios of future heat-trapping emissions. The first (the higher-emissions scenario) is a future where people - individuals, communities, businesses, states, and nations - allow emissions to continue growing rapidly, and the second (the lower-emissions scenario) is one in which societies choose to rely less on fossil fuels and adopt more resource-efficient technologies. This 2007 report builds upon and extends these findings. NECIA collaborators have used the NECIA climate projections to assess the impacts of these two very different future Northeast climates on vital aspects of the region's life and economy: coastal areas, marine fisheries, forests, agriculture, winter recreation, and human health. They also describe actions that can be taken today in the Northeast to reduce emissions and help avoid the most severe impacts of global warming and to adapt to the unavoidable changes that past emissions have already set in motion.Prepared by the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment Synthesis Team (NECIA)NECIA is collaborative effort between the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and a team of independent expertsPurpose: To summarize the findings of the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA) in 200
Union of Concerned Scientists: Food and Environment
No full textThe Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) began as a collaboration between students and faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969, and is now an alliance of more than 250,000 citizens and scientists. The "Food and Agriculture" section of their website provides a trove of valuable information on sustainable food production and research. This section is divided into two main parts "Food & Agriculture Science and Impacts" and "Food & Agriculture Solutions". The Impacts section includes "Science in Agriculture", "Impacts of Industrial Agriculture", "Impacts of Genetic Engineering". Site visitors can also link to information about other UCS programs including Clean Vehicles, Global Warming, Clean Energy, and Scientific Integrity
Letter awarding Representative Les AuCoin the Herbert Scoville Award from the Union of Concerned Scientists
Get PDFLetter from Union of Concerned Scientists to Representative Les AuCoin, signed by Howard Ris, Executive Director and Charles Monfort, Washington Director. The letter, dated February 10th, 1988, awards Representative AuCoin the 1988 Herbert Scoville Award for "distinguished service in the advancement of arms control", noting his work against the MX missile and the Strategic Defense Initiative in particular. Senator Carl Levin shared the award in 1988. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. See also PUA_MS147_19 for image of Representative AuCoin and Senator Levin receiving their awards
The False Frontier
No full textUnion of Concerned Scientists production \u27The False Frontier\u27 questioning President Ronald Reagan\u27s proposed Strategic Defense Initiative known as \u27Star Wars.\u27; Time 11:35 Copyright 1986; Restricted use
SDI - Der Krieg im Weltraum Grundlagenstudie prominenter Wiss. d. Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) zur Bewaffnung d. Weltalls
No full textDie Risiken der Atomkraftwerke d. Anti-Rasmussen-Report d. Union of Concerned Scientists. Hrsg.: Öko-Inst., Inst. f. Angewandte Ökologie, Freiburg i. Br.
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