Current Project: We believe that global warming will be the greatest environmental challenge of the 21st Century. It is fundamentally an Air Quality problem linked to the burning of carbon-based fuels. Drought and water supply problems can be seen locally even now.

There is a program on Climate Change scheduled for the morning of June 20 at the Hughes Center, featuring speakers Bill Patzert of NASA (a climate change specialist) and Celeste Cantu, General Manager of the Santa Ana Water Development Agency. Following their presentation there will be a discussion with the audience of what can and should be done to address these problems. Lobbying key Congressional Representatives in support of effective climate change legislation is another aspect of this project.

Reference: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was awarded the Nobel Prize. Their Fourth Assessment Report (2007) is at http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-syr.htm, and there is a useful summary at http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr_spm.pdf.