Past Conference Calls
JANUARY, 2012 NATIONAL CONFERENCE CALL
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Guest Speaker: Daphne Wysham, Institute for Policy Studies fellow
Daphne Wysham is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and is the founder and co-director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (SEEN). She has worked on research and advocacy at the intersection of climate change, human rights, fossil fuels, international finance, carbon markets and sustainable economies since 1996. She is a frequent guest speaker on the concerns around carbon markets — and carbon offsets in particular — in generating meaningful greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Wysham has played a leadership role on Capitol Hill, advising the Congressional Progressive Caucus on a progressive agenda for climate change. Her writings, commentary and analysis has appeared in national news publications and on radio and TV, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Grist, The Guardian, The Financial Times, and on Al Jazeera, Democracy Now!, MSNBC, BBC, NPR, and Marketplace, among others. From 2003 to May of 2011, she hosted Earthbeat Radio and TV. She was arrested at the White House during the Keystone XL pipeline protests this past summer.
December 2011 Conference Call
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December Guest Speaker: Col. Mark 'Puck' Mykleby, USMC, co-author of ‘A National Strategic Narrative’
Mark “Puck” Mykleby has served as a Marine fighter pilot, participating in combat operations in support of Operations PROVIDE PROMISE, DENY FLIGHT, SOUTHERN WATCH, and IRAQI FREEDOM. From July 2009 until April 2011 he served as a special strategic assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff developing grand strategy. He is co-author of “A National Strategic Narrative,” a report suggesting that America must “move beyond a strategy of containment to a strategy of sustainment(sustainability); from an emphasis on power and control to an emphasis on strength and influence; from a defensive posture of exclusion, to a proactive posture of engagement.” Mark retired from the Marine Corps in July 2011 and has joined LRN, a company dedicated to helping organizations build ethical, values-based cultures that inspire principled performance in business and in life.
November 2011 Conference Call
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Guest Speaker: Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, atmospheric scientist and co-author of 'A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions'
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on the potential impacts of human activities at the regional scale. She is an associate professor at Texas Tech University and director of the TTU Climate Science Center, as well as CEO of the scientific consulting company ATMOS Research. Her past assessments for California, the Great Lakes, and the Northeast have been cited in IPCC assessments, presented before Congress, and highlighted by state and federal agencies as motivation for the implementation of policies to reduce human emissions of greenhouse gases. She teamed up with author, professor and pastor Andrew Farley, to write “A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions," a book that untangles the complex science and tackles many long-held misconceptions about global warming.
October 2011 Conference Call
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Guest Speaker: Dr. Mark Jacobson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director, Atmosphere/Energy Program, Stanford University
Dr. Jacobson's research evaluates the atmospheric effects of proposed energy solutions to climate change and air pollution, examines resource availability of renewable energies, and studies optimal methods of combining renewable energy resources. He co-authored a new study analyzing what is needed to convert the world's energy supplies to clean and sustainable sources. His study says it can be done with today's technology at costs roughly comparable to conventional energy. But converting will be a massive undertaking on the scale of the moon landings. What is needed most is the societal and political will to make it happen.
September 2011 Conference Call
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September guest speaker: Anthony Leiserowitz, Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University
Anthony Leiserowitz, PhD, is director of the Yale Project on Climate Change and a research scientist at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. He is also a principal investigator at the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University. He is a widely recognized expert on American and international public opinion on global warming, including public perception of climate change risks, support and opposition for climate policies, and willingness to make individual behavioral change. His research investigates the psychological, cultural, political, and geographic factors that drive public environmental perception and behavior.
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August 2011 Conference Call
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August guest speaker: CDR. Blake McBride,
USN Task Force Climate Change
This month’s conference call guest, Commander M. Blake McBride III, will talk about some of the challenges the U.S. Navy faces in a changing climate. CDR McBride is a naval meteorology and oceanography officer and has served as the Executive Officer of the U.S. National/Naval Ice Center in Suitland, Maryland. He also served as a Meteorology and Oceanography Officer on the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard, completing two deployments during operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. He holds undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in physics, meteorology and physical oceanography, hydrographic science, and national security and strategic studies.
July 2011 Conference Call
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Guest Speaker: Tom Rand, founder of VCi Green Fund
June 2011 Conference Call
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May 2011 Conference Call
Guest Speaker Lester Brown
The Washington Post called Lester Brown "one of the world's most influential thinkers." The Telegraph of Calcutta refers to him as "the guru of the environmental movement."
In 1974, with support of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, he founded the Worldwatch Institute, the first research institute devoted to the analysis of global environmental issues. While there he launched the Worldwatch Papers, the annual State of the World reports, and World Watch magazine. In May 2001, he founded the Earth Policy Institute to provide a vision and a road map for achieving an environmentally sustainable economy.
Brown has authored or coauthored 50 books. One of the world's most widely published authors, his books have appeared in some 40 languages. Among his earlier books are Man, Land and Food, World Without Borders, andBuilding a Sustainable Society. His 1995 book Who Will Feed China?challenged the official view of China’s food prospect, spawning hundreds of conferences and seminars. His most recent book is World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, which the Financial Times called "a provocative primer on some of the key global issues that businesses will face in the coming decades.”
April 2011 Conference Call
April 27, 2011, Group Leader Call
Guest speaker Jean Francois Tardif
As the largest development institution, the World Bank has a tremendous impact on the Earth's climate because of the projects that it chooses to fund. Our guest, Jean Francois Tardif, is a long-time RESULTS volunteer who has spent 20 years lobbying the World Bank to influence its policies on the poor. On this call, he gives us an introduction to the World Bank and how to influence its decisions. Download the call here.
March 2011 Conference Call
Guest Speaker Tom Bowmanis one of the premier interpreters of global change, climate and energy science, and green business strategies. He is an advisor, strategist, communicator, and producer. Through his work with the National Academy of Sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and energy companies across the country, Tom discovered an urgent need to improve science communication and employ its results to make better, more sustainable decisions. He founded Bowman Global Change to help organizations achieve these goals. Tom has written about climate change and communication priorities in the academic and popular press; contributed to NOAA’s Essential Principals of Climate Literacy and NOAA/CORE Public Ocean Literacy publications; and hosted meetings of experts in climate science, social science, economics, ethics, and communication with the support of NOAA and the CDC
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February 2011 Conference Call
is widely known for his work as an energy-policy analyst, transport economist and environmental activist in New York City. He is the director of the Carbon Tax Center, a clearinghouse for information, research and advocacy on behalf of revenue-neutral carbon taxes to address the climate crisis. Charles is a math-and-economics graduate of Harvard.
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December 2010 Conference Call
Guest Speaker Richard Somerville
Richard Somerville is a climate scientist and the author of The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change, a new editon of which was published in 2008 by the American Meteorological Society.
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November 2010 Conference Call
Guest Speaker Representative Bob Filner
Congressman Bob Filner was first elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1992. He ranks 92 of 435 and serves as Chairman of Veteran’s Affairs. Congressman Filner is a friend of Citizens Climate Lobby, having been the leader on a Congressional Letter to President Obama asking the President to go to Copenhagen, and to support 350 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere. Congressman Filner has taken several courageous stands for rights of Veterans, even being arrested protecting Veteran’s rights. As a young man he was a Freedom Rider, standing up for civil rights. In 1960, he was arrested and jailed in Selma, Alabama. We are honored to have such a courageous member of Congress as our friend and speaker on the call.
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October 2010 Conference Call
Guest Speaker was Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming and alternative energy and advocates for more localized economies. In 2010 the Boston Globe called him "probably the nation's leading environmentalist" and Time magazine described him as "the world's best green journalist. In 2009 he led the organization of 350.org , which coordinated what Foreign Policy magazine called "the largest ever global coordinated rally of any kind," with 5,200 simultaneous demonstrations in 181 countries. The magazine named him to its inaugural list of the 100 most important global thinkers, and MSN named him one of the dozen most influential men of 2009. Read his call for Direct Action in the Climate Movement.
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September 2010 Conference Call
This month's guest speaker was Dr. Fabian Walter Dr Walter is a researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California at San Diego. His research is focused on seismic studies related to glacial bodies. Currently, Dr. Walter is investigating glacier calving using seismic measurements and analysis techniques.Thesis work for our speaker was on the seismic activity of an Alpine glacier during the sudden drainage of a nearby ice-marginal lake.
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August 2010 Conference Call
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Our Speakers were Laurie Williams, Danny Richter, and Sandy Kirtland. All three were presenters during our National Conference in Washington, D.C.
Laurie Williams — producer of the video, “The Huge Mistake” — briefed us on her recently initiated whistleblower action regarding greenhouse gas offsets. Previous National calls have focused on C02 reductions, but other potent greenhouse gases (GHGs) need to be addressed to achieve a sustainable climate. Mr. Richter and Ms. Kirtland addressed the sources and impacts of the other GHGs.
July 2010 Conference Call
July's Speaker: Bill Shireman, President and CEO of Future 500
Called a “master of environmental entrepreneurism,” Mr. Shireman has over 20 years of experience developing and implementing programs that align the interests of major corporations and their stakeholders. Shireman develops profitable business strategies that drive pollution down and profits up. As President and CEO of the Future 500, Shireman helps the world’s largest companies and most impassioned activists - from Coca-Cola, General Motors, Nike, Mitsubishi, and Weyerhaeuser, to Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network, and the Sierra Club -- work together to improve the profits and performance of business. He advocates market-based environmental policies – contending they can be more effective than many command and control laws.
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June 2010 Conference Call
Speaker: Richard Littlemore, co-author Climate Cover Up. Democracy is utterly dependent upon an electorate that is accurately informed. In promoting climate change denial (and often denying their responsibility for doing so) industry has done more than endanger the environment. It has undermined democracy. Read more here
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May 2010 Conference Call
Last Speaker - James Handley, is a chemical engineer and formerly an attorney with US EPA. His education includes: LLM (highest honors) in environmental law, George Washington University. Juris Doctorate, University of Houston. Bachelor of Chemical Engineering (Economics minor) and Bachelor of Arts, University of Delaware. Institute for Energy Conversion, fellowship researching and developing solar and thermal energy conversion and storage systems.
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Sample Political Letter
Sample Green Jobs Letter
Sample Clergy Letter
April 2010 Conference Call
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Offered in MP3 format for you to download and add to your ipod.
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Our Speaker was Economist Dr. Robert Shapiro. Mr. Shapiro is the Co-founder
and Chairman of Sonecon, llc. From 1997 to 2001, he was U.S. Under
Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs. He also was the principal
economic advisor in Bill Clinton's 1991-1992 presidential campaign and senior
economic advisor to Vice President Albert Gore and Senator John Kerry in
their presidential campaigns. In 2008, he advised the campaign and transition
of President Barack Obama. Dr. Shapiro also served as Legislative Director
for Senator Daniel P. Moynihan.
March 2010 Conference Call
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Our Speaker was Sam Daley-Harris. Sam is the Founder of RESULTS (the organization that Citizens Climate Lobby is modeled after) and RESULTS Educational Fund as well as Founder and Director of the Educational Fund’s largest project, the Microcredit Summit. He is author of the book “Reclaiming our Democracy.”
“Sam has been my inspiration, mentor, and guide ever since we met in the Summer of 1994,” Marshall Saunders.
February 2010 Conference Call
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View Press Release: Hansen: ‘We have a planetary emergency’
Last Speaker: Dr. James Hansen, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, on the Columbia University faculty, and Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is the leading authority on the study of climate change – he spoke as a private citizen. He recently published his first book, “Storms of My Grandchildren.”
January 2010 Conference Call
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The Guest Speaker on the January call was Grant Galland. Grant is a researcher at Scripps
Institution of Oceanography. Recently Grant completed a 3-month research fellowship
with International Union for Conservation of Nature, studying the ocean's role in climate
change. Last month Grant attended the UN climate negotiations as a part of the UC
Revelle delegation.
December 2009 Conference Call
December Conference Call fron St. Louis
December Action Sheet
The Triple Win
August 2009 Conference Call
Two EPA attorneys discuss the the inherent weaknesses of off-sets in a cap and trade system.
October 2009 Conference Call
Summary of CCL National Conference Call - 10/24/09
In conjunction with the International Day of Climate, CCL Groups around the country called in from various 350.org events. Signatures were gathered for a petition to President Obama calling for an International Goal of no more than 350 ppm of C02. See pictures on our website of “Beet Global Warming,” and “Squash Global Warming” events held by CCL Partners.
- The Guest Speaker was Congressman Bob Filner (D-CA), who in response to our request, introduced a Congressional Sign on Letter in support of President Obama going to Copenhagen in December and calling for worldwide support of no more than 350 ppm of C02.
- Vic Edgerton from Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s (D-OH) office was also on the call. Rep. Kucinich, along with Rep. Filner are the original co-signers of the letter. Rep. Kucinich also introduced H.R. 865, a House Resolution in support of the same goal.
- Marshall Saunders, Founder and President of CCL spoke about creating the political will for a stable and sustainable climate.
If you’d like more information please contact CCL at ccl@citizensclimatelobby.org
September 2009 Conference Call
Sandi Kirkland a PHD candidate at Sripps Institution of Oceanography explained the recent MIT study on Climate change ("Climate Change Odds Much Worse than Thought". Hugh Stafford, a Regional Ecologist talked about the impact of climate change on western U.S. ecology's including the increasing frequency and severity of forest fires.
August 2009 Conference Call
A conference call hosted by Mark Reynolds for people concerned about climate change.
July 2009 Conference Call
Speakers included Marshall Saunders, Founder and President of CCL, Mark Reynolds, Operations Manager of CCL and Danny Richter. PhD Cantidate at Scripps and Partner of CCL. They spoke about their lobbying in Washington D.C. in June. Steve Valk, Director of Communications for CCL, spoke on Editorial Packets, and how to get your newspaper to publish an editorial on your favorite subject.
June 2009 Conference Call
On the last nationwide conference a representative from Bob Inglis' (R-SC) spoke about his bill: The Raise Wages, Cut Carbon Act of 2009
May 2009 Conference Call
The Speaker on this call was Bill Becker, Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project, http://www.climateactionproject.com. He is the author of "The 100 Day Action Plan To Save The Planet".
April 2009 Conference Call
Danny Richter of Citizens Climate Lobby gave a summary of the Larson bill, H.R. 1337. Mark Reynolds of Citizens Climate Lobby spoke about maximizing the opportunity of the “Call to Action.”
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Referenced Documents
Larson Bill Summary
Excerpts from "The Price Is Not Right" By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
March 2009 Conference Call
Our returning speaker was Charles Komanoff, Co-Founder of the Carbon Tax Center www.carbontax.org. Charles spoke to us in February. This month he will speak to us about Representative John Larson’s Carbon Tax bill that will be introduced in early March.
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February 2009 Conference Call
Thanks to our our speaker Charles Komanoff, Co-Founder of the Carbon Tax Center
www.carbontax.org. He will speak to us about Cap and Trade vs Carbon Tax.
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January 2009 Conference Call
Thanks to our speaker Tom Stokes of the Climate Crisis Coalition.
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November 2008 Conference Call
Thanks to our speaker Gerald Karnas - Florida Climate Project Director for Environmental Defense.
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October 2008 Conference Call
Thanks to our speaker Jeremy Richardson.
Download a copy of his handout "Changing the Climate in Washington DC."
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September 2008 Conference Call
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August 2008 Conference Call
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June 2008 Conference Call
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March 2008 Conference Call
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January 2008 Conference Call
