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Does Climate Change
Threaten Ohio?
(December 2008)
Ohio Environment Report v5(1): Does Climate Change
Threaten Ohio?
This brief report examines some of the evidence on the economic implications
of climate change for Ohio. Despite some alarmist literature, there is
little evidence that climate change will have major impacts on Ohio's
economy. The most important impacts of climate change on Ohioans will
result from policy proposals currently before Congress. Ohioans need
to get engaged in climate policy in order to have an impact on this debate.
Forest Economics and Global Climate Change
Page (http://aede.osu.edu/people/sohngen.1/forests/ccforest.htm)
Scenarios of Greenhouse
Gas Emissions and Atmospheric Concentrations and Review of Integrated
Scenario Development and Application. US Climate Change Science Program
(http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap2-1/default.php)
Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change
(http://www.ipcc.ch/)
Pew Center on Climate
Change Policy Pages
http://www.pewclimate.org/policy_center/
Resources For the Future
– US Climate Policy Page
http://www.weathervane.rff.org/solutions_and_actions/united_states.cfm
World Resources
Institute Climate Page
http://www.wri.org/climate#
Environmental Defense
Climate Page
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/page.cfm?tagID=65
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PAST ENVIRONMENT TOPIC
(For all past Columns, click here)
Ohio Environment Report v4(3): International Climate
Change Policy Update
The topic of climate change got a lot of press in 2007. Early in the
year it was the release of the three reports by the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change combined with the Oscar Al Gore won for his movie.
By fall, the former Vice President and the members of the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change had won the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts.
In December, the world turned its attention to Bali, where negotiators from
nearly all countries of the world discussed efforts to combat climate change
and/or to adapt to its impacts. If the science of climate change generates
some debate (and despite general agreement on some issues – the scientists
really do debate lots of issues), the policy discussions create heated
conversations, sometimes acrimonious press statements, and emotional
displays of bliss or gloom. The recent United Nations meetings in Bali are a
perfect example of the stakes of climate change policy for Ohio, the U.S.,
and the world.
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