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AAAS seeks at every opportunity to increase the volume of scientific leadership on the issue of global climate change. Background materials on AAAS efforts related to climate change and links to relevant resources are provided here.
AAAS Board of Directors Statement on Climate Change: "The scientific evidence is clear," the AAAS Board says in a new statement. "Global climate change caused by human activities...is a growing threat to society." The statement was approved on 9 December 2006 and released on 18 February at the AAAS Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
AAAS Urges Support for Earth-Observation Satellites:
U.S. budget cuts are threatening satellites essential for weather forecasting, hurricane warnings, climate change studies and more, the AAAS Board of Directors said in a 28 April 2007 statement.
"Communicating and Learning About Global Climate Change": An estimated 1,000 educators, students, business leaders and others convened in San Francisco on 18 February 2007 for a half-day, town-hall style event on the challenges of climate change-and possible solutions. The event, geared to teachers, students and science communicators, was held at the AAAS Annual Meeting and featured the debut of AAAS's new 12-minute video on climate change, which can be viewed online as
RealVideo
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Windows Media.
Some of the nation's top climate experts spoke at the event, detailing the latest science on the subject and working with the audience to explore inventive educational and technological responses to it. Videos of the town hall presentations and support materials are available here.
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Watch the video of past AAAS President John P. Holdren talking to Dave Letterman about climate change on CBS’ The Late Show.
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"Underwater Deserts Expand in Tropical Oceans," Brandon Bryn and Molly McElroy, AAAS news report, 1 May 2008
John P. Holdren's Climate-Change Message: Watch a brief videotaped interview with Dr. John Holdren, former AAAS President, Director of the Woods Hole Research Center, and Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard University.
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"In Arctic Alaska, the Warming Climate Threatens an Ancient Culture," AAAS news report, 6 December 2006
"Time to get serious about climate change," op-ed article, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 July 2006
"The Energy Innovation Imperative," by John Holdren, Innovations: Technology, Goverance, Globalization, Spring 2006, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 3-23.
Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2006-2007, by Donald Kennedy and the editors of Science, (2006), Island Press, 201pp, ISBN: 1597260630
"Expanding Oxygen-Minimum Zones in the Tropical Oceans," by Lothar Stramma et al., Science, 2 May 2008, vol. 320. no. 5876, pp. 655-658.
"Arctic Air Pollution: Origins and Impacts," by Kathy S. Law and Andreas Stohl, Science, 16 March 2007, vol. 315. no. 5818, pp. 1537-1540.
"Recent Sea-Level Contributions of the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets," by Andrew Shepherd and Duncan Wingham, Science, 16 March 2007, vol. 315. no. 5818, pp. 1529-1532.
"Perspectives on the Arctic's Shrinking Sea-Ice Cover," by Mark C. Serreze et al, Science, 16 March 2007, vol. 315. no. 5818, pp. 1533-1536.
Hurricanes, Climate, and Katrina, A special collection from Science Online
"Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity," by Anthony L. Westerling et al, Science, 18 August 2006, vol. 313, no. 5789, pp. 940-943.
"Changes in the Velocity and Structure of the Greenland Ice Sheet," by Eric Rignot and Pannir Kanagaratnam, Science, 17 February 2006, vol. 311, no. 5763, pp. 986-990.
"Stable Carbon Cycle-Climate Relationship During the Late Pleistocene," by Urs Siegenthaler and colleagues, Science, 25 November 2005, vol. 310, no. 5752, pp. 1313-1317.
"Climate Change Science: Adapt, Mitigate, or Ignore?" by David A. King, Science, 9 January 2004, vol. 303, no. 5655, pp. 176-177.

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