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News : CLIMATE SCIENCE, POLITICS AND PUBLIC OPINION: A CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE IN CLIMATE POLICY?

8 November 2010

Charlotte Streck's presentation explored how emerging climate science, debates over its validity, and wavering public sentiments affect the effort to combat global warming.  Streck has first-hand experience in the intergovernmental process, and has insight into the motivation and approach of the participants.  Last year, hacked e-mails from the East Anglia Research Center—dubbed "Climategate"--set off media attacks and governmental investigations into flaws in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the scientific foundation of the UN process.  While only minor deficiencies have been found in the IPCC's science, the turmoil is threatening the tentative political consensus and public support for action against climate change.

Click here for a copy of Dr. Streck's presentation.

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