Discussion Documents

links to documents for comment

The following respresent a wide variety of subjects brought to the attention of the Manoa Climate Change Committee (MCCC). These links are external opinions, ideas and documents not to be taken as the position of the MCCC.

Supreme Court Decision: Massachusetts et. al. versus the Environmental Protection Agency et. al.

Argued Nov. 29, 2006. Decided April 2, 2007. 5-4 in favor of the EPA having the statutory authority to regulate greenhouse gases in new automobiles. Both Opinion of the Court and Dissenting Opinion are in the file.

Dangerous Human-Made Interference with Climate

Testimony presented April 26th, 2007, to the US House of Representatives by Dr. Jim Hansen, a leading climate scientist at NASA Goddard. The NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), at Columbia University in New York City, is a laboratory of the Earth Sciences Division of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and a unit of the Columbia University Earth Institute. Research at GISS emphasizes a broad study of global climate change. It should be noted Dr. Hasen testified as private individual and not in the capacity of a NASA scientist.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

Working Group II Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report - Summary for Policymakers.

Climate Change: Lessons Learned from Existing Cap and Trade Programs

Testimony by Dr. Richard L. Sandor, Chairman and CEO, Chicago Climate Exchange. To the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality. Hearing on “Climate Change: Lessons Learned from Existing Cap and Trade Programs” March 29, 2007.

The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change

The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, is a 700-page report released on October 30, 2006 by economist Sir Nicholas Stern for the British government, which discusses the effect of climate change and global warming on the world economy. The Executive Summary is provided here.

Stern Review Final Report

To get the full version of the report click on this link.

California CO2 Market Recommendations

Report issued June 30 2007 reflecting CAʻs attempts to design a cap and trade system for reaching their GHG reduction target.

The Australian Approach to Developing an Emissions Policy

This page contains a number of links to research and policy documents developed for the Australian Government. They provide an example of the range of considerations one country has already been through and the steps it has taken to get to the point of having a policy recommendation.

Understanding Sea Level Rise and Variability

Summary statement from the World Climate Research Programme workshop, hosted by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO in Paris June 6-9, 2006.

Can plankton help save the planet?

Article from New York Times, April 30, 2007. Subject - Ocean Fertilization

Effect of natural iron fertilization on carbon sequestration in the Southern Ocean

A letter to Nature, dated April 26th, 2007.

Greenhouse Gas

Discussion of Greenhouse Gas related issues

Tropical Cyclone Trends

Article circulated by Tom Schroeder