April 24 , 2008 While almost 80% of public health department leaders believe that climate change will impact the health of people in their jurisdictions over the next few decades, few have yet been able to make it a top priority, according to a new national survey co-sponsored by the Center for Climate Change Communication. Click here to read report. |
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March 29, 2008 A blueprint for action to ameliorate the impacts of climate change on health was released by the American Public Health Association in preparation for April's National Public Health Week. Center Director Ed Maibach, a member of APHA's advisory board for the initiative, spoke to members of the press this morning to promote the event along with APHA executive director Georges Benjamin and former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher. For more information, see APHA's website as well as a news article from USAToday. |
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January 31, 2008 Republicans and Democrats may be polarized on the politics of climate change, but when it comes to employing behaviors that actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions, they aren't so far apart, a Porter Novelli-George Mason University survey released today found. Click here for the report, titled "What are Americans thinking and doing about global warming? The results of a national household survey." See also coverage of the report from USAToday. |
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October 12, 2007We heartily congratulate Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on winning the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize! Mr. Gore's work with The Climate Project is a true example of excellence in climate change communication. But we also applaud the Nobel Committee for using its platform to make an unconditional statement on the need for the world to act quickly to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. In their announcement, the Norwegian Nobel Committee made a fervent call for the world's nations to recognize the peril implicit in human-caused atmospheric changes and to work now to avert the incipient threat. "Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man's control," said Professor Ole Danbolt Mjøs, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Those strong clear words are appearing in the media across the globe today; which is another example of excellence in climate change communication. |
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August 21, 2007On Tuesday, August 21, the Center for Climate Change Communication hosted its inaugural open house for members of the Mason family. It was a great success with faculty, staff and students from many departments and colleges attending the event. The open house featured a lecture titled "Harnessing the Influence of Opinion Leaders to Accelerate the Diffusion of Climate Change Innovations" given by Do Kyun Kim, PhD, Center affiliate researcher and lecturer at Northeastern University. Please click here for pictures from the open house.
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