Category: climate change

Nationally acclaimed scientists to offer climate change insights locally

Posted on January 10, 2013 |

• Vermont
• climate change
• Featured
• Middlebury College
• Salisbury

By Xian Chiang-Waren

MIDDLEBURY — Climate change may have been largely absent from the national political conversation in 2012, but Addison County is kicking off the first month of 2013 with visits from nationally renowned climate change scientists. 

On Jan. 17, the public is invited to attend a presentation by Alan Betts, a Pittsford-based climate scientist who in recent years has been presenting his climate change research to diverse audiences around the state. Betts will present at the Salisbury Community School at 7 p.m.

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Warming climate is changing everything

Posted on September 20, 2012 |

• Ripton
• climate change
• eee
• Featured

By Lee Kahrs

RIPTON — After 20 years of warnings from climate scientists, environmentalists and Al Gore, many would argue that the predicted consequences of global warming are being realized.

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McKibben calls protest a success

Posted on September 15, 2011 |

• Vermont
• Bill McKibben
• climate change
• environment
• Tar Sands

By Andrea Suozzo

WASHINGTON, D.C. — To Ripton resident Bill McKibben, the best measure of success in the two-week Tar Sands Action protest in front of the White House was the 1,253 arrests of protesters.

People concerned about global climate change flocked to the Washington, D.C., from across the nation for a two-week protest that drew to an end Sept. 3, with 243 arrests happening on that final day, according to tarsandsaction.org.

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