http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/2000 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/environments/articles/harvard-experts-help-sort-out-us-energy-future <!--paging_filter--><p>John F. Kennedy School of Government energy experts testified to the U.S. Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Committee this month (March 10) on ways to use clean coal technology to make coal a more acceptable part of the United States' future energy mix and to ease a natural gas shortage that is driving energy prices skyward.<br /> The new technology could answer two major criticisms of coal: that it's a source of pollutants such as sulfur dioxide and mercury, and that it's a source of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas implicated in human-caused global warming.</p> <p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/environments/articles/harvard-experts-help-sort-out-us-energy-future">read more</a></p> Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:08:22 -0400 50443248 4584 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/environments/articles/polar-bear-research-shows-global-warming-real <!--paging_filter--><p>Harvard Professor James McCarthy was among a handful of top scientists who coordinated a remarkable report by the world scientific community in 2001 that said global warming is real, it's here, and it's going to be worse than we thought. "We already see effects that [indicate] the change in climate has occurred," said McCarthy, who co-chairs one of three working groups of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). "And the projection of some of those [effects] into the future are not a pretty scene." John Holdren, Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, credited the IPCC with largely ending the debate over whether human-induced climate change is happening.</p> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:05:12 -0400 70652986 2774 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu