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The Smithsonian is similarly blessed. Its board includes all sorts
of high-end names like the Chief Justice of the United States and
the Vice-president of the United States, along with people like
David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group, the chief
executive of Sony Entertainment, the president of one of the largest
real estate companies in the DC area, Steve Case (founder of AOL).
It helps to have powerful and wealthy friends. The federal
appropriation is $819.5 million, which is about 2/3 of the
institutions' income. And then there are those gift shops and the
real source of SI's wealth - the cafeterias (home of the $16
sandwiches and $4 cans of soda...).<br>
<br>
Ellen<br>
<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Ellen Paul
Executive Director
The Ornithological Council
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ellen.paul@verizon.net">ellen.paul@verizon.net</a>
"Providing Scientific Information about Birds<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nmnh.si.edu_BIRDNET&d=AwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=cpPpN7wteXS-pdHdoCuP_2zm5MBCbXO8D-_UnOTTbGc&s=p5loUkCPyodnak9EySXx8WFMfcaGSg7diQL4m7IxPmc&e=">"
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET"</a>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/24/15 10:33 AM, Prondzinski, Mary
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always wondered why these two major museums were able to
survive when others were going under (!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu">nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu">mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ellen Paul<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:28 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> AVECOL<br>
<b>Cc:</b> NHCOLL-new<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] Gauntlet thrown (in case your
copy was lost in the mail)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">From today's NYT and the full text of the
letter, below.<br>
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style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">Dozens
of climate scientists and environmental groups are calling
for museums of science and natural history to “cut all ties”
with fossil fuel companies and philanthropists like the Koch
brothers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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asserts that such money is tainted by these donors’ efforts
to deny the overwhelming scientific consensus on<span
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<span
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some of the biggest contributors to<span
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misinformation on climate science sponsor exhibitions in
museums of science and natural history, they undermine
public confidence in the validity of the institutions
responsible for transmitting scientific knowledge,” the
letter states. “This corporate philanthropy comes at too
high a cost.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">The
letter does not mention specific companies, but it does name<span
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on the boards of the American Museum of Natural History in
New York and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural
History and has given tens of millions of dollars to those
institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span
style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Koch
Industries is a privately held corporation with subsidiaries
in energy and other industries. Mr. Koch and his family have
funded conservative causes, including scientists and
organizations that contest the role of humans in climate
change.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="color:#326891">similar contributions</span></a><span
class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to such
organizations and scientists over the years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span
style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">The
letter is a project of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__thenaturalhistorymuseum.org_&d=AwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=ioAD92qPrkKwUMQDiYtJ0y01kcFv0xdP5Z1GwQGEv84&s=5n-X-M34DIWQp8wXeFiioLgs1inI3m6BwyY9BrX7uHw&e="><span
style="color:#326891">the Natural History Museum</span></a>,
a mobile museum that draws attention to “social and
political forces that shape nature yet are left out of
traditional natural history museums,” said its co-founder
and director, Beka Economopoulos.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span
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style="color:#326891">petition</span></a><span
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on Tuesday and sponsored by environmental organizations
including<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.greenpeace.org_usa_en_&d=AwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=ioAD92qPrkKwUMQDiYtJ0y01kcFv0xdP5Z1GwQGEv84&s=8-wBM8tm01ytUeQCaYYHoFV_OC56QTDvoCniMKnxlYo&e="><span
style="color:#326891">Greenpeace</span></a><span
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style="color:#326891">Sierra Club</span></a>, urges the
Smithsonian and the American Museum of Natural History to
“Kick Koch off the board!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span
style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Michael
Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University
and signer of the letter, said the donors seek a halo they
do not deserve. “Cloaked in the garb of civic-mindedness,
they launder their image while simultaneously and covertly
influencing the content offered by those institutions,” he
said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span
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Wohlschlegel, a spokesman for the<span
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style="color:#326891">American Petroleum Institute</span></a>,
said he could not comment on the letter because he had not
seen it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span
style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Allegations
that contributions from donors like Mr. Koch influence
institutions exhibits are not new. A<span
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style="color:#326891">2010 investigation</span></a><span
class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in The New Yorker
noted that an underlying message of exhibits in the David H.
Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian National
Museum of Natural History is that humans “evolved in
response to a changing world.” The article said that such
language suggests that climate change has been a feature of
the planet since prehistoric times, which plays down human
contributions to climate change.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span
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Kremer, director of public affairs for the museum, said that
Mr. Koch served on the advisory board, which is “a
consultative board not a governing board,” and that “the
museum director has no plans to ask any members to step
down.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span
style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">Mr.
Kremer added that while Mr. Koch was the largest single
donor to the museum, “he signed our standard gift agreement,
which prohibits donor or sponsor involvement in content.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span
style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">A
spokesman for the American Museum of Natural History,
Roberto Lebron, said, “Donors do not determine the
interpretation or presentation of scientific content.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span
style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Eric
Chivian, founder of the center for health and the global
environment at Harvard Medical School and a signer of the
letter, said he was not convinced that policies barring
donors from having direct control over exhibits are
effective. “It is just human nature not to bite the hand
that feeds you,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span
style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Mr.
Koch, who has given $100 million to Lincoln Center to
renovate the former New York State Theater and supports many
other institutions, has said that his contributions to the
museums come from a deep love of science, and from being “<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__query.nytimes.com_gst_fullpage.html-3Fres-3D950CE1DC103BF937A35756C0A9649D8B63&d=AwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=ioAD92qPrkKwUMQDiYtJ0y01kcFv0xdP5Z1GwQGEv84&s=XNaTPgQ0YfQPiY2AQ_9J_qhaNqYwZdvVVnaV1yReKZ4&e="><span
style="color:#326891">blown away and just fascinated</span></a>”
by the dinosaurs on his first visit to the American Museum
of Natural History when he was 14. Mr. Koch and his company
did not respond directly to a request for comment about the
letter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span
style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Dr.
Chivian, who as co-founder of the group<span
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Nuclear War"><span style="color:#326891">International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War</span></a><span
class="apple-converted-space"> </span>shared the
organization’s 1985<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__topics.nytimes.com_top_news_science_topics_nobel-5Fprizes_index.html-3Finline-3Dnyt-2Dclassifier&d=AwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=ioAD92qPrkKwUMQDiYtJ0y01kcFv0xdP5Z1GwQGEv84&s=yh7cwWjdu_WhI2VTM4pVQzvR7d5mvi3yaTY1AEttAGw&e=" title="More articles about Nobel Prizes."><span
style="color:#326891">Nobel Prize</span></a>, said
natural history museum contributions from the Koch brothers
were fundamentally different from their contributions to
arts institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span
style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">“The
Koch brothers have no stake in what is played at Lincoln
Center,” Dr. Chivian said. But such funding for museums is
no more acceptable than it would be if “a major tobacco
company offered to fund an exhibit for them devoted to lung
diseases.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span
style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Chris
Norris, a paleontologist and prominent blogger on museum
issues, warned that if museums started removing board
members or turning down donations, they risked damaging
their reputations for objectivity. Doing so, he added, would
enable “others to argue that the information they provide is
partisan and not to be trusted.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<pre>Ellen Paul<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Executive Director<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>The Ornithological Council<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Email: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ellen.paul@verizon.net">ellen.paul@verizon.net</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
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<span
style="font-size:27.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#392321;font-weight:normal">An
Open Letter to Museums from Members of the Scientific
Community<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="line-height:17.15pt;vertical-align:baseline"><i><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">March
24, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<div>
<p
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style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">To
Museums of Science and Natural History:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
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<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">As
members of the scientific community we devote our lives to
understanding the world, and sharing this understanding
with the public. We are deeply concerned by the links
between museums of science and natural history with those
who profit from fossil fuels or fund lobby groups that
misrepresent climate science.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
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<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">Museums
are trusted sources of scientific information, some of our
most important resources for educating children and
shaping public understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
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<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">The
Code of Ethics for Museums, adopted in 1991 by the Board
of Directors of the American Alliance of Museums, states:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
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<em><span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333;border:none
windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">“It is incumbent on
museums to be resources for humankind and in all their
activities to foster an informed appreciation of the
rich and diverse world we have inherited. It is also
incumbent upon them to preserve that inheritance for
posterity.”</span></em><span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
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<em><span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333;border:none
windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">“Museums are grounded in
the tradition of public service. They are organized as
public trusts, holding their collections and information
as a benefit for those they were established to
serve…Museums and those responsible for them must do
more than avoid legal liability, they must take
affirmative steps to maintain their integrity so as to
warrant public confidence. They must act not only
legally but also ethically.”</span></em><span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
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<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">We
are concerned that the integrity of these institutions is
compromised by association with special interests who
obfuscate climate science, fight environmental regulation,
oppose clean energy legislation, and seek to ease limits
on industrial pollution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
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<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">For
example, David Koch is a major donor, exhibit sponsor and
trustee on the Board of Directors at the Smithsonian’s
National Museum of Natural History, and the American
Museum of Natural History. David Koch’s oil and
manufacturing conglomerate Koch Industries is one of the
greatest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions in the
United States. Mr. Koch also funds a large network of
climate-change-denying organizations, spending over $67
million since 1997 to fund groups denying climate change
science.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
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0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">When
some of the biggest contributors to climate change and
funders of misinformation on climate science sponsor
exhibitions in museums of science and natural history,
they undermine public confidence in the validity of the
institutions responsible for transmitting scientific
knowledge. This corporate philanthropy comes at too high a
cost.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">Drawing
on both our scientific expertise and personal care for our
planet and people, we believe that the only ethical way
forward for our museums is to cut all ties with the fossil
fuel industry and funders of climate science obfuscation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">With
concern,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">1.
James Hansen, Climatologist; former head of the NASA
Goddard Institute for Space Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">2.
James Powell, Geochemist; former President of the Franklin
Museum of Science and former President and Director of the
Los Angeles County Natural History Museum.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">3.
Bob Corell, Climatologist; Head of US Office for the
Global Energy Assessment; former Assistant Director for
Geosciences at the National Science Foundation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">4.
Kevin E Trenberth, Distinguished Senior Scientist, Climate
Analysis Section, National Center for Atmospheric
Research, Lead Author 2001 and 2007 IPCC report which won
a Nobel Prize.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">5.
Danny Harvey, Professor of Geography and Climatology,
University of Toronto, IPCC Convening Lead Author and Lead
Author; Deputy Editor of Climatic Change.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">6.
Eric Chivian, founder and Director of the Center for
Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical
School. Co-founder of International Physicians for the
Prevention of Nuclear War, which won the Nobel Peace Prize
in 1985.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">7.
Henry Pollack, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics at the
University of Michigan. Advisor to the National Science
Foundation, IPCC member.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">8.
Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology;
Director, Earth System Science Center, The Pennsylvania
State University.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">9.
Joseph J. Romm, Physicist, Climatologist; former Acting
Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy;
founder and editor of Climate Progress.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">10.
George Woodwell, Ecologist; Founder and Director Emeritus,
Woods Hole Research Center.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">11.
Calvin B. DeWitt, Environmental Scientist, Co-founder of
the Evangelical Environmental Network, President of the
Academy of Evangelical Scientists and Ethicists, and
Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">12.
Dr Stuart Parkinson, Climatologist; Executive Director,
Scientists for Global Responsibility, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">13.
Jason Box, Climatologist, Professor of Glaciology at the
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. Co-author of
2007 IPCC report which won a Nobel Prize.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">14.
Mike MacCracken, Chief Scientist for Climate Change
Programs with the Climate Institute.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">15.
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Director of the Global Change
Institute, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow,
University of Queensland, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">16.
Matt Lappe, Paleoclimatologist, Environmental Hydrologist,
Executive Director, Alliance for Climate Education.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">17.
Greg Laden, Paleoanthropologist, Independent Scholar,
Writer at National Geographic Scienceblogs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">18.
Sarah Kornbluth, Biologist; Affiliate of Bee Database
Project, American Museum of Natural History and Doctoral
Candidate, Rutgers University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">19.
Dr Simon L Lewis, Reader, Global Change Science, at
University College London and University of Leeds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">20.
Brad Johnson, Science writer; MS geosciences, MIT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">21.
Emmanuel Vincent, Assistant Project Scientist at the
University of California, Merced<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">22.
Jonathan Oppenheim, Professor of Quantum Theory,
University College London. Royal Society Research Fellow
in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical
Physics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">23.
David Webb; Emeritus Professor; Previously Professor of
Engineering, Leeds Metropolitan University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">24.
Dr Martin Zaltz Austwick, Physicist, University College
London<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">25.
Scott A. Mandia, Asst. Chair /Professor – Physical
Sciences, Suffolk County Community College<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">26.
Mona Mehdy, Molecular biologist, faculty at University of
Texas at Austin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">27.
Judith S. Weis, Professor Emerita, Department of
Biological Sciences, Rutgers University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">28.
Jonathan Tunik, Former Evaluation Studies Associate for
the American Institute of Physics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">29.
Aerin Jacob, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Applied Conservation
Science Lab, University of Victoria, British Columbia,
Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">30.
Shaun Lovejoy, Professor of Physics, McGill University,
Canada, formerly at the Climate Diagnostics Centre of NOAA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">31.
Lindy Weilgart, Professor of Biology, Dalhousie
University, Nova Scotia, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">32.
Dr. Sophie Levina, MD, PhD and Doctor of Medical Sciences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">33.
Dr. Susan Spencer, Solar Scientist, Founder/President of
ROCSPOT.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">34.
Erika Crispo, PhD, Evolutionary Ecologist and Biologist,
Pace University, NYC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">35.
Lucky Tran, PhD, Biologist, University of Cambridge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p
style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:
border-box;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;outline:
0px">
<span
style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#333333">36. Damian
Alexander Stanley, Ph.D., Neuroscientist, California
Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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