Expert Panel on Global Warming Essay

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Currently she is a Scientist III working with the Institute for the Study of Society and Environment (ISSE) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. Her research focuses on human exploitation of climate-sensitive natural resources, and the socioeconomic and institutional factors affecting resource management decisions in the context of uncertainty and competing interests.

Dr. Thomas J. Wilbank received a Ph. D. In Geography from Syracuse in 1969. He is a recognized expert in energy and environmental policy, developing countries, global change, technology and society, and institution-building. Currently he is employed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory with the title of Corporate Research Fellow and Leader, Global Change and Developing Country Programs. Dr. Wilbank has studied the links between everyday economic and household activities and climate change. He is a contributor to the book, Global Change and Local Places: Estimating, Understanding, and Reducing Greenhouse Gases.
This book reports on greenhouse gas emissions examine and the causes and effects of climate changes triggered by human activities. It is the first major, comparative study of how the emissions vary nationally at the local level and on a daily basis. It is an assessment of the degree of control households and firms have over the emissions they produce and how willing they are to modify their behavior to lessen climate change. It also explores how adaption to these changes that might occur.

These three experts bring a varied and comprehensive background to the table. Between them they can address the major consequences of global warming and a responsible reaction to this dilemma.

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