There was an announcement in the New York Times today of a new political group being formed called Scientists and Engineers for America. I noticed that one of the founders was Michael MacCracken, who has decades of experience on the climate change problem. Here are links to the story and to their web page/blog:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/28/us/politics/28science.html http://www.sefora.org/ >From my experience with electoral politics, including work on several Presidential campaigns, I can only hope that they have success with their efforts. Most people in politics have short time horizons, ie, the next election, which makes it extremely difficult for them to deal with long term problems. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
