Dear colleagues:
With sadness, shared below is a personal note from the family of our friend and colleague, Natasha Andronova.
Jim Byrne
Dearest Friends and Colleagues,
It is my sad duty to inform you that Natasha has passed away comfortably on Sunday evening at 11:05 pm in her home surrounded by her loving sons. I know that she cherished and cared for all of you and we are deeply touched by your thoughts and for the support you have given our family while she was battling brain cancer. She was a strong woman and fought to the end.
Natasha was an amazing woman, accomplished scientist, and co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. She has always strived to help anyone in their time of need and touched the hearts of everyone she has met. She will be missed most dearly.
Public visitation and viewing is set this Friday 6/6/2014 from 2 pm - 8 pm at Muehlig Funeral Chapel in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We would kindly appreciate it if you would spend this time with us in remembrance of Natasha. Burial of cremated ashes will take place on the following Monday at Forest Hill Cemetery. Family will host a private memorial event thereafter. With your help we are setting up a Memorial Fund, please go to https://www.youcaring.com/remembernatasha for more information.
Sincerely,
Savva & Sam
Sons.
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
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
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
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
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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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Dear colleagues,
Collaborations grew out of the Chapman Climate Communication Meeting in Summer 2013, and we are pleased to share some of the results of those collaborations.
A series of videos by Peter Sinclair of ClimateCrocks were produced in early 2014, and these were posted through Bud Ward's leadership on the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media video series This is not Cool -
http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/yale-climate-media-forum-on-youtube/
Geoff Haines-Stiles, Producer of ETOM and the Original COSMOS Series, and myself, co-produced a series of videos posted here:
http://climatesolutionscentre.com<http://climatesolutionscentre.com/>/
USA Colleagues - http://climatesolutionscenter.com<http://climatesolutionscentre.com/> is coming soon :)
Please share these video links with colleagues around the globe. We have done our best to convey your messages on climate science and solutions to our audiences. Thanks again for your kind support.
On behalf of my colleagues, Geoff, Peter and Bud,
Best wishes all,
Jim Byrne
Dear colleagues,
Collaborations grew out of the Chapman Climate Communication Meeting in Summer 2013, and we are pleased to share some of the results of those collaborations.
A series of videos by Peter Sinclair of ClimateCrocks were produced in early 2014, and these were posted through Bud Ward's leadership on the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media video series This is not Cool -
http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/yale-climate-media-forum-on-youtube/
Geoff Haines-Stiles, Producer of ETOM and the Original COSMOS Series, and myself, co-produced a series of videos posted here:
http://climatesolutionscentre.com<http://climatesolutionscentre.com/>/
USA Colleagues - http://climatesolutionscenter.com<http://climatesolutionscentre.com/> is coming soon :)
Please share these video links with colleagues around the globe. We have done our best to convey your messages on climate science and solutions to our audiences. Thanks again for your kind support.
On behalf of my colleagues, Geoff, Peter and Bud,
Best wishes all,
Jim Byrne
Dear Colleagues,
Some of you might remember the poster I presented at our workshop last year:
Communicating Climate Science to the Public: A Vulgarisation Peer-Reviewed
Open Access Scientific Journal?
The idea presented in the poster was to develop an online journal publishing
relatively short, high quality articles in all areas of climate science,
written directly by climate scientists in a non-scientific language, which
will be freely accessible to the public.
(If you wish to refresh your memory, the poster can be visualized here:
http://www.climateonline.bourquiconsulting.ch/files/PosterChapmanJune2013_MS
Bourqui.pdf)
Such a journal aims at covering three gaps:
1. To provide the general public with a free and direct access to the
existing knowledge in climate sciences
2. To provide the climate scientists with a simple and reliable way to
disseminate their research
3. To provide a structure where climate scientists can connect with
non-scientists and Citizen Climate Science projects can be developed
After a long technical work, the journal proposed in the poster is now
online and functional at the following address:
http://www.climateonline.bourquiconsulting.ch/.
The journal includes a comprehensive and fully automated flow stream for the
peer-reviewing and publishing of Climate Science manuscripts for the general
public. It is now ready to receive submissions of manuscripts among other
things. Note when visiting the web site that many features will only be
visible once logged-in (you will have to pre-register first).
Now, if you are interested in this project, I would like to ask you the
following:
1. Let me know that you are interested, either by pre-registering
online or by replying to this email.
2. Consider becoming an Editor. We need Editors to take care of the
manuscripts that will be submitted in the next months. Since everything is
well automated, the workload for Editors should be no more than 2-3 hours
per manuscript. You will have a decisive role in the development of the
journal. You can sign up on the co-editor candidate list upon
pre-registering or let me know by email.
3. Think about manuscripts that could be written and submitted to the
journal in the next months. To stimulate the discussion, I recommend you to
post your ideas in the forum Ideas for New Manuscripts so that others can
comment or join. The forum is available after log-in at the address:
http://www.climateonline.bourquiconsulting.ch/share-ideas/.
4. Forward this email to colleagues, students and friends. We need a
core group of scientists and non-scientists to progressively develop the
content. The non-scientists are also important at this stage as they will
help us make sure articles are accessible to the general public. This core
group will play a decisive role in defining the Journal on the long term (we
dont want any denier at this stage).
In case you are at the EGU in Vienna next week, I will be presenting the
journal in the talk entitled A Citizen Empowered Online Platform for
Communicating Climate Science to the General Public.
The next months will be very exciting with much happening in terms of
developing the content of the journal. Please get involved! I look forward
to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,
Michel Bourqui
More details:
· To get a first flavour, please read the Welcoming remarks:
o http://www.climateonline.bourquiconsulting.ch/home/welcome_long/
o http://www.climateonline.bourquiconsulting.ch/home/climate-online-news/
· To go more in depth:
o The Peer-Review goes in two steps, with an Open Review followed by an
Open Discussion. It is explained here:
http://www.climateonline.bourquiconsulting.ch/about/editorial-policies/peer-
review-process/
o The Peer-Reviews schematic:
http://www.climateonline.bourquiconsulting.ch/files/PeerReviewSchem.pdf
o All Editorial Policies:
http://www.climateonline.bourquiconsulting.ch/about/editorial-policies/
o Fees: Submission of manuscripts and other contributions is free to
members. Published articles are free to everyone. The idea is to start
applying a cheap, country-varying flat membership fees in about one year,
after the journal has gained some content.
o Governance: The journal will be governed as an association by its
members.
· To pre-register: its easy, free and non-binding:
o The online form:
http://www.climateonline.bourquiconsulting.ch/register/pre-registration-subm
ission/
o Some explanation:
http://www.climateonline.bourquiconsulting.ch/register/
· Let me know what you think about the name Climate Online (see
http://www.climateonline.bourquiconsulting.ch/give-your-opinion-on-the-name-
of-the-journal/)
· If you have any problem with the web site, or any comment, please
let me know by email or use the appropriate Idea Forum (available after
log-in): http://www.climateonline.bourquiconsulting.ch/share-ideas/
Michel Bourqui, PhD
Atmospheric and Climate Sciences Consulting, Zurich, CH
Affiliate Professor, Dept Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill
University, CA
Adjunct Professor, Dept of Physics, Université de Montréal, CA
<http://www.bourquiconsulting.ch/> http://www.bourquiconsulting.ch/
<http://www.meteo.mcgill.ca/bourqui/> http://www.meteo.mcgill.ca/bourqui/
Dear colleagues,
Collaborations grew out of the Chapman Climate Communication Meeting in Summer 2013, and we are pleased to share some of the results of those collaborations.
A series of videos by Peter Sinclair of ClimateCrocks were produced in early 2014, and these were posted through Bud Ward's leadership on the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media video series This is not Cool -
http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/yale-climate-media-forum-on-youtube/
Geoff Haines-Stiles, Producer of ETOM and the Original COSMOS Series, and myself, co-produced a series of videos posted here:
http://climatesolutionscentre.com<http://climatesolutionscentre.com/>/
USA Colleagues - http://climatesolutionscenter.com<http://climatesolutionscentre.com/> is coming soon :)
Please share these video links with colleagues around the globe. We have done our best to convey your messages on climate science and solutions to our audiences. Thanks again for your kind support.
On behalf of my colleagues, Geoff, Peter and Bud,
Best wishes all,
Jim Byrne