Information From:  jeh1 at columbia.edu

This Sunday evening (June 1, 2008) 7:30 pm - at Cary Hall in Lexington, Massachusetts - a few hundred yards from where the first shots of the American Revolution were fired , the Lexington Global Warming Action Coalition (info at www.lexgwac.org) will hold an appeal to the governor om matters of climate change.

The speakers will be: Mark Bowen, author of “Censoring Science” and James (Jim) Hansen who knows a thing or two about how climate science was censored.

Perhaps there is an analogy between the gap that developed between the best interests of the American people and policies of despotic King George and the gap that has developed between the best interests of the public (and nature) and the policies (mainly those related to energy) that we now live under.

A different sort of revolution, within the democratic framework, is needed, but it won’t be easy. What makes it a hair-raising drama, with an outcome far from assured, is the combination of climate system inertia and resulting planetary energy imbalance, energy system inertia, and climate system tipping points.

There is a $5 admission.