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	<description>State Senator -- 2nd Suffolk and Middlesex -- Democrat</description>
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		<title>Hearing on the Climate Impact of the Transportation Sector</title>
		<link>http://willbrownsberger.com/index.php/archives/3976</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Brownsberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Global Warming and Climate Change Committee held a hearing on the climate impact of the transportation sector this week.  The presentations were useful and read well as standalone documents.]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping climate change in perspective</title>
		<link>http://willbrownsberger.com/index.php/archives/2954</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Brownsberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a text that I expect to deliver in rough form this afternoon at a rally in Concord for action on climate change sponsored by 350.org.]]></description>
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		<title>Climate/Energy Policy Updates</title>
		<link>http://willbrownsberger.com/index.php/archives/2309</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Brownsberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this legislative session in Massachusets, we are not expecting much new legislative progress on energy issues, but at the federal level legislation is front and center.  Congressman Ed Markey and Energy Secretary Chu seem to be leading us in a good direction.]]></description>
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		<title>What should our national carbon emissions reduction goal be?</title>
		<link>http://willbrownsberger.com/index.php/archives/672</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Brownsberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our goal should be to create an economy substantially independent of the burning of fossil fuels. Notable organizations and leaders have endorsed a goal for developed nations of reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050, based on climate science considerations. Nicholas Stern report to the UK Treasury &#8212; a broad and thorough goal setting analysis. United Nations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Jim Hansen testimony &#8212; higher risks?</title>
		<link>http://willbrownsberger.com/index.php/archives/678</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Brownsberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASA scientest Jim Hansen argues that the concensus estimates of the rate and risks of global warming are understated.]]></description>
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		<title>What is the carbon level we need to stabilize at?</title>
		<link>http://willbrownsberger.com/index.php/archives/680</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Brownsberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To stop making the problem worse, we need to stabilize CO2 levels in the atmosphere &#8211; we need to stop putting out more CO2 than can be absorbed naturally.  Global warming is driven by the cumulative total amount of CO2 we have put into the atmosphere less cumulative natural absorption.  We have dumped approximately 2,000 billion metric tons of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What risk levels are associated with different levels of global warming?</title>
		<link>http://willbrownsberger.com/index.php/archives/676</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Brownsberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2.0 degrees from pre-industrial levels &#8212; 1 to 1.5 from todays level &#8212; is a ceiling that some world organizations have viewed as troubling, but livable. Different parts of the globe are impacted differently, raising deep equity issues.   Even under higher temperature increases, the dangerous population impacts of climate change fall mainly on the tropics; while temperate zones will see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is a goal of 450ppm (higher than many advise) achievable?</title>
		<link>http://willbrownsberger.com/index.php/archives/682</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Brownsberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[450 ppm  is a stretch goal and would require average global emissions over the century to drop more than 1/3 below current emissions.  ]]></description>
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		<title>What do skeptics have to say about climate change?</title>
		<link>http://willbrownsberger.com/index.php/archives/716</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Brownsberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the scientific community, genuine climate change skeptics are vastly less numerous than those who see sufficient evidence to support immediate action to address climate change.  Two statements that do ring true from skeptics are: It is unrealistic to expect impoverished nations not to develop, even if this increases their carbon emissions. It is possible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pollutants other than carbon in vehicle exhaust</title>
		<link>http://willbrownsberger.com/index.php/archives/687</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Brownsberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reduction of vehicle emissions of carbon &#8212; through more efficient vehicles, mass transit, car pooling, cycling, etc. &#8212; also reduces all other forms of air pollution associated with vehicle exhaust.  Federal air quality regulations don&#8217;t do enough to control ozone, fine particulates (especially from diesel engines, but also from cars) and other vehicle exhaust components.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate change</title>
		<link>http://willbrownsberger.com/index.php/archives/136</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Brownsberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long before global warming began to be recognized as a major threat, we had compelling reasons to end our economic dependence on burning of fossil fuels. The extraction and the burning of fossil fuels both cause extensive environmental damage with high human health costs. Competition for scarce fossil resources has played a role in most [...]]]></description>
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