T200 Planetary Climate Disruption Demands Urgent Global Policy Action

Tuesday, 24 October 2017
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room 611

GSA INSIDE THE BELTWAY: AN INSIDE PERSPECTIVE ON INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN CLIMATE SCIENCE AND CLIMATE POLICY

Paper number: T200-8
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 9:55 AM – 10:10 AM

Authors

  • Kasey S. White Presenting Author
    Geological Society of America, Washington, CO

Abstract

Climate policy has dominated national headlines in 2017. From the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, to challenges to the science underlying EPA’s endangerment finding through a proposed “red team – blue team” debate, to commitments to address climate change among local and state governments, to the growth of a bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus in the House of Representatives, U.S. policymakers at all levels are taking action, often in contradictory ways. Scientists and members of The Geological Society of America (GSA) conduct research on past, present and future climates, as well as petroleum and other sources of energy. How can the GSA organization and its members productively engage in these policy decisions? This talk will address current climate policy issues and as well as GSA activities including its Climate Change position statement, letters to government officials on key climate change topics, Climate Science Day visits to legislators, and more.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 49, No. 6

doi: 10.1130/abs/2017AM-301440

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