[*BCM*] [EP-News] Climate Change in the Encyclopedia of Earth

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Dear Friends and Colleagues,

 

I am pleased to announce the launch of the Climate
<http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eoearth.org%2Fa
rticle%2FClimate_Change_%2528collection%2529&i=0&d=3717CED3-BF09-4BD6-9356-D
423E738E597&e=msurface at ncseonline.org>  Change Collection in the
Encyclopedia
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i=1&d=3717CED3-BF09-4BD6-9356-D423E738E597&e=msurface at ncseonline.org>  of
Earth:

 

 http://www.eoearth.org/article/Climate_Change_%28collection%29
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The Collection is anchored by an electronic version of the Intergovernmental
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rticle%2FIPCC_Fourth_Assessment_Report_%2528full_report%2529&i=2&d=3717CED3-
BF09-4BD6-9356-D423E738E597&e=msurface at ncseonline.org>  Panel on Climate
Change Nobel Prize-winning reports. It also includes articles by climate
experts, biographies of individuals who have made important contributions to
climate science and policy, a timeline of key events in the history of
climate science and policy, a climate glossary, and much more. Scientists,
educators, environmental professionals and concerned citizens should find
the Collection to be an invaluable resource.

 

We seek to expand the Collection with articles on a wide rage of
climate-relate' topics and written for a large and diverse global audience.
We encourage potential contributors to contact
<http://www.eoearth.org/article/Climate_change:_outline_of_topics>  us.

 

Please circulate these links among your networks.

 

With best regards,

 

Cutler J. Cleveland

Professor of Geography and Environment, Boston University

Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Earth 

 

 

 

  Online Encyclopedia Adds Preeminent Climate Change Reports to Its
Collection

 

Encyclopedia of Earth adds Nobel-prize winning reports from the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

 

WASHINGTON, DC, MAY 27, 2008. - The world's most respected scientific
reports about climate change are now available through the Encyclopedia of
Earth (EoE), an online resource designed to make authoritative information
about the environment widely available and easily accessible.

 

The reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were
recently added to the EoE's collection and are now accessible
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rticle%2FClimate_Change_%2528collection%2529&i=0&d=3717CED3-BF09-4BD6-9356-D
423E738E597&e=msurface at ncseonline.org> here.  A program of the United
Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organization, the
IPCC publishes periodic reports on the worldwide scientific consensus about
climate change and its potential impacts.   The reports are intended to
provide decision-makers and interested citizens with the latest objective
information about climate change. The IPCC received the 2007 Nobel Peace
Prize for its work.

 

Mohan Munasinghe, Vice-Chair of the IPCC and a member of the EoE's Advisory
Board, praised the publishing partnership, noting that the work of the
world's foremost authority on climate change is now reaching a much broader
audience through one of the most trusted sources of environmental
information available on the internet. 

 

"I am delighted that our efforts to link the IPCC and EoE have borne fruit
through this publishing agreement," Munasinghe said. " It will make key
information on climate change readily accessible to everyone, and bring
enormous benefits to stakeholders ranging from high level decision makers,
policy analysts and researchers, to students and the concerned public."

 

Launched in 2006, the EoE is the first free, expert-driven, massively
scaleable online information resource about the environment.  Hundreds of
the world's leading scientists and educators write and edit articles for the
encyclopedia on a variety of topics. 

 

"Climate change is now center stage in public awareness and political
agendas" noted Cutler Cleveland, Editor-in-Chief of the EoE and professor of
Geography an Environment at Boston University. "This collaboration makes the
best science about climate change freely available to anyone with access to
the Internet."

 

The Encyclopedia of Earth is one component of the Earth Portal, published by
the National Council for Science and the Environment in Washington, D.C.
The Earth Portal also includes the Earth Forum, featuring bogs by leading
scientists and Earth News, providing links to the latest environmental news
from around the world.  

 

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