Online material by Research Center Staff

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.

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

PDF documentClimatic 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.

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.