POC = "Preserve Our Climate" --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Neuman, Michael T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 21:36:35 -0500 Subject: Preserve Our Climate Coalition (POCC) -- Informational Details Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
As some of you might know, there has been an ad hoc group of individuals and representatives of environmental and public health organizations meeting regularly about the issue of global warming (or "climate change") in Madison over the past two years, and have adopted the name "Preserve Our Climate Coalition" (POCC). The POCC grew out of a meeting set up through the Earth Day to May Day activism program at the UW-Madison campus in 2001. Notice of the meeting was broadcast over WORT-FM radio, and posters were placed at several locations throughout the Madison campus area and City of Madison. The formation meeting was held May 1, 2001 at the UW Memorial Union Tripp Commons. The POCC volunteers have been meeting on the issue of climate change and global warming on a fairly regular basis since that first meeting was held. It has been involved in researching the science and current news about the issue of global warming, and conducting outreach activities in the community designed to promote more factual awareness about the problem and its causes. The POCC activities have also included offering suggestion on actions individuals might take, and Government might want to consider taking, to bring about greenhouse gas emissions from the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from this area, would could help slow the rate global warming there is now plenty of evidence to show is occurring. For your further information, the "POC Coalition" presently includes a number of local area residents (myself included), and has had significant involvement from a number of nonprofit and volunteer organizations in the Madison area, as well, including: the Interfaith Coalition on Climate Change; Physicians for Social Responsibility; WISPIRG; Clean Wisconsin (formerly Wisconsin's Environmental Decade); as well as a separate successful community outreach activity conducted by the Madison's DOERS. Other forms of nonmonetary assistance have also been very appreciatively received from: the Union of Concerned Scientists; the UW Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), WORT- FM Community Radio; people working for the UW Physics Department; and John Magnuson of the UW Limnology Center, who participated in both the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Union of Concerned Scientists' report: "Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region: Impacts on Our Communities and Ecosystems. http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/global_warming/page.cfm? pageID=1156 With these contributions, the POC Coalition continues to be actively engaged in planning and advocacy activities in the Madison community (incl. Dane and surrounding counties) regarding global warming and the climate change issue. These activities have been conducted to provide residents, children, businesses, governmental officials and educators working within the community with relevant, factual and timely information of the about the ever growing problem of global warming, what's predicted for the future if significant and timely reductions in heat-trapping gases are not effectively achieved. The POC Coalition is also beginning to discuss how the community, Government, and area citizens might also begin planning for accelerated increases in average and maximum temperature levels, in Madison and the rest of Wisconsin, and rising humidity as well, as both measures have already been shown in an analysis of National Weather Service (NWS) weather station data to have been increasing significantly just in the last five years of NWS-supervised temperature level data recording. ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
