Recent Essays |
May 1, 2006. Awkward Facts About Climatic Disruption:Laissez-Faire Hell or a Garden of Eden? - Essay by George M. Woodwell. |
April 21, 2006. The
ground we walk on: It's part of global warming. (Christian
Science Monitor, April 21, 2006). Commentary by Senior Scientist
Eric A. Davidson
- Accelerated warming is not inevitable, but changing our course
requires mindfulness.
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August 15, 2005. Deputy Director Kilaparti
Ramakrishna responds to The Wall Street Journal’s August
8th essay on The
Theology of Global Warming. |
June 1, 2005. Director Emeritus Woodwell
argues for a comprehensive plan to manage fire in the Giant
Sequoia National Monument. |
March 15, 2005. Cape Cod Today. Environmental
Dreams - Environmentalism is about as moribund as the human spirit.
Director Woodwell disputes claims that environmentalists have lost
their way. |
February 14, 2005. Providence
Journal. Kilaparti Ramakrishna - The
Kyoto Protocol: Waiting for Godot? Asking the US to rejoin
the world on climate change. |
February 10, 2005. Anything
But "Clear Skies" - Efforts to relax restrictions on contamination
of air, water and land are direct affronts to human welfare.
George M. Woodwell & R.A. Houghton |
January 20, 2005. The Falmouth Enterprise & Upper
Cape Codder. Energy, Planning,
and Management of Coastal Resources - A Wind Farm in Nantucket
Sound. Comments by George M. Woodwell on the urgent need for
implementing renewable energy. |
December 11, 2004. Deputy Director Dr. Kilaparti
Ramakrishna announces the Research
Center's support for Cape Wind's offshore wind farm. |
December 10, 2004. Providence Journal. George
M. Woodwell: Cape Wind vs. Brayton Point. Research Center
Director places Cape Wind project in perspective, both local
and global. |
August 11, 2004. Boston Globe. Research Center
directors Ramakrishna and Woodwell assert that World
Bank undermines efforts on global warming. |
February, 2004. The US needs to assume a
leadership role in Haiti, recognizing that "Effective
Government requires a Functional Landscape." |
Earlier Essays |
 Climatic
Disruption in 2002: A Scientific Puzzle and Political Dilemma
by George M. Woodwell. The Granville H. Sewell Lecture in the
Environmental Health Sciences, Joseph L. Mailman School of
Public Health, Columbia University. PDF format(407 KB). November
7, 2002.
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In "More Disconnected
Dots..." Director Woodwell admonishes Democrats to
assert leadership in issues of global import. August, 2002. |
WHRC Director Woodwell cautions that Earth is Too
Small for War. April 30, 2002. |
WHRC Directors castigate the Bush administration for a A
Vulgar Act of Bravado. February 15th, 2002. |
Released December of 2001 - Forests
in a Full World (preface), by George M. Woodwell.
ed. |
No Time for Complacency -
Non-attendance at COP7 in Marrakech means that important work
will suffer. November 2001. |
Kilaparti Ramakrishna calls for a new paradigm in "Negotiating
Sustainability." |
Dr. George M. Woodwell's acceptance speech delivered at the
awarding of the 12th Volvo Environment
Prize, the Opera House, Göteborg, Sweden, October 30, 2001. |
Eradicating Terrorism -
Why a policy of extermination is doomed to failure, by George
M. Woodwell. October 19, 2001. |
The World. Lisa Mullins interviews Kilaparti Ramakrishna on
the Bush administration's opposition to the Kyoto Protocol. (Requires
RealPlayer.) |
Fiddling While the World
Burns - An ecologist speaks on the rising costs of ignoring
global warming. Spring, 2001. |
"Taking Climate Change
Seriously Means Taking The Kyoto Protocol Seriously." April
4th, 2001. |
WHRC Deputy Director Kilaparti Ramakrishna and Director George
M. Woodwell appeal for simplicity in Combatting
Climatic Disruption. November 17, 2000. |
Kilaparti Ramakrishna and George M. Woodwell call for "Clarity
on Global Warming" in the Christian Science Monitor,
Sept. 14, 2000 (opens in a new window). |
Senior Scientist Eric A. Davidson publishes You
Can't Eat GNP, Economics as Though Ecology Matters. "A
wonderfully perceptive, clear, and balanced account of what
we know about the interaction of the economy, the environment,
and the human condition - and about how that knowledge can
be applied to build a better future." |
Four months after the Third Conference of the Parties in Kyoto
held in December of 1997, Dr. Kilaparti Ramakrishna of the Woods
Hole Research Center addresses The
Challenge of Global Climate Change. |
Dr. John P. Holdren, Visiting Distinguished Scientist at The
Woods Hole Research Center states that we are Underrating
Climate Disruption in addressing the White House Conference
on Climate Change, October 1997. |
