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Climate Communication - signing Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline - researcher now available for widespread distribution
by Byrne, James 22 May '14

22 May '14

Dear colleagues, This letter was previously distributed. A colleague inquired about who might signed. This letter is open for signature by any climate expert from any nation. The lead group is from Canada, and the letter you see addresses the grave concerns that many Canadian climate and environment related researchers have with the process of pipeline review in Canada. BUT any and all global colleagues are invited to review the letter and add your signature to the letter if that is possible. Please do this as soon as possible as we plan to submit the letter to the Prime Minister very soon. I expect the letter will be released to the media. Warm regards, Jim Byrne Dear friends and colleagues, We, the undersigned natural and social scientists, are writing to invite you to consider being a signatory on a letter to Prime Minister Harper. The letter calls for PM Harper to reject the Joint Review Panel (JRP) report on the Northern Gateway Pipeline (NGP). The Prime Minister’s office is expected to announce a decision on the NGP imminently (within weeks), so the timing is critical. To ensure that we precede the federal decision, the sign-on letter will close on May 23. The letter begins as follows below. In short, we are stating that the JRP report is flawed in five important ways, such that it is insufficient as basis for a federal decision. Note that we are not calling for the PM to reject the NGP; we are restricting our critique to the evidentiary basis for such a decision in the JRP report. The questions surrounding natural resource development and transportation are complex and multifaceted, involving economic, ecological and social considerations. We find the report flawed in a diversity of these dimensions. While, none of us alone can speak to all of these flaws, we can collectively assess and address specific issues given our areas of expertise. In an effort to communicate a clear and succinct message, the letter details five fundamental flaws among many. You can sign onto the letter at: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/scientists-reject-northern-gateway-jrp-r… The pdf of the full letter can be downloaded at: http://www.Chanslab.ires.ubc.ca/?attachment_id=2611 Sincerely, Kai MA Chan, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia Anne Salomon, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University Eric B Taylor, Professor, University of British Columbia Together with: Elena Bennett, Professor, McGill University James M Byrne,Professor, University of Lethbridge Michael Barkusky, Founding Director, Pacific Institute for Ecological Economics Suzanne Bayley, Emeritus Professor, University of Alberta Ratana Chuenpagdee, Professor, Memorial University Simon Donner, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia Edward Gregr, Professional Biologist / Recovery Plan Author, University of British Columbia Eric Higgs, Professor, University of Victoria George Hoberg, Professor, University of British Columbia Kathryn Harrison, Professor, University of British Columbia Don Jackson, Professor, University of Toronto Mark Jaccard, Professor, Simon Fraser University Jeremy Kerr, Professor, University of Ottawa Ken Lertzman, Professor, Simon Fraser University Sarah Otto, Professor, University of British Columbia Evgeny Pakhomov, Professor, University of British Columbia Paul Paquet, Assistant Professor, University of Victoria Wendy Palen, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University David Schindler, Professor, University of Alberta Douw Steyn, Professor, University of British Columbia Boris Worm, Professor, Dalhousie University

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Climate Communication - AGU Chapman Website
by Byrne, James 18 May '14

18 May '14

Dear Chapman Colleagues, My apologies for taking so long to address the Chapman Conference Proceedings. The format of the proceedings as a refereed journal seemed so NOT appropriate as many conference attendees discussed the inability of referred papers to reach a greater audience and the right audience. To that end I managed to pull together a few nickels and we have been organizing a webpage for distribution of the talks on youtube in an organized fashion. The site is up informally but we want to add a discussion capacity after each talk; and add short discussion papers from those of you who presented a poster at the meeting; in essence, your poster in paper format. The webpage is here http://climate-ed.net/agu-chapman-conference-2013 The plan is to complete this page by early summer. Suggestions are welcome. Warm regards, Jim Byrne

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Climate Communication - FW: Enbridge NGP JRP scientist letter: now available for widespread distribution
by Byrne, James 18 May '14

18 May '14

Sent by James Byrne on behalf of Canadian Colleagues. Dear friends and colleagues, We, the undersigned natural and social scientists, are writing to invite you to consider being a signatory on a letter to Prime Minister Harper. The letter calls for PM Harper to reject the Joint Review Panel (JRP) report on the Northern Gateway Pipeline (NGP). The Prime Minister’s office is expected to announce a decision on the NGP imminently (within weeks), so the timing is critical. To ensure that we precede the federal decision, the sign-on letter will close on May 23. The letter begins as follows below. In short, we are stating that the JRP report is flawed in five important ways, such that it is insufficient as basis for a federal decision. Note that we are not calling for the PM to reject the NGP; we are restricting our critique to the evidentiary basis for such a decision in the JRP report. The questions surrounding natural resource development and transportation are complex and multifaceted, involving economic, ecological and social considerations. We find the report flawed in a diversity of these dimensions. While, none of us alone can speak to all of these flaws, we can collectively assess and address specific issues given our areas of expertise. In an effort to communicate a clear and succinct message, the letter details five fundamental flaws among many. You can sign onto the letter at: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/scientists-reject-northern-gateway-jrp-r… The pdf of the full letter can be downloaded at: http://www.Chanslab.ires.ubc.ca/?attachment_id=2611<http://www.chanslab.ires.ubc.ca/?attachment_id=2611> Sincerely, Kai MA Chan, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia Anne Salomon, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University Eric B Taylor, Professor, University of British Columbia Together with: Elena Bennett, Professor, McGill University James M Byrne,Professor, University of Lethbridge Michael Barkusky, Founding Director, Pacific Institute for Ecological Economics Suzanne Bayley, Emeritus Professor, University of Alberta Ratana Chuenpagdee, Professor, Memorial University Simon Donner, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia Edward Gregr, Professional Biologist / Recovery Plan Author, University of British Columbia Eric Higgs, Professor, University of Victoria George Hoberg, Professor, University of British Columbia Kathryn Harrison, Professor, University of British Columbia Don Jackson, Professor, University of Toronto Mark Jaccard, Professor, Simon Fraser University Jeremy Kerr, Professor, University of Ottawa Ken Lertzman, Professor, Simon Fraser University Sarah Otto, Professor, University of British Columbia Evgeny Pakhomov, Professor, University of British Columbia Paul Paquet, Assistant Professor, University of Victoria Wendy Palen, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University David Schindler, Professor, University of Alberta Douw Steyn, Professor, University of British Columbia Boris Worm, Professor, Dalhousie University

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Climate Communication - Special Issue: Media Research on Climate Change
by Adriana Raudzens Bailey 09 May '14

09 May '14

Dear AGU Chapman attendees: You may be interested in a collection of peer-reviewed articles on media and climate change, which just appeared in the journal Environmental Communication. (The collection includes work that I presented at the meeting last summer.) Titled "Media research on climate change: where have we been and where are we heading?" the special issue can be found on the Environmental Communication website: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/renc20/current Best Regards, Adriana Bailey -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Adriana Raudzens Bailey PhD Candidate, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences University of Colorado Boulder e: adriana.bailey(a)colorado.edu m: (720) 998-1841 -----------------------------------------------------------

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