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<p class=p1><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt'>Dear Friends and Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p1><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p1><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt'>I am pleased to announce the launch of the <a
href="http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eoearth.org%2Farticle%2FClimate_Change_%2528collection%2529&i=0&d=3717CED3-BF09-4BD6-9356-D423E738E597&e=msurface@ncseonline.org"
title="http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http://www.eoearth.org/article/Climate_Change_%28collection%29&i=0&d=3717CED3-BF09-4BD6-9356-D423E738E597&e=msurface@ncseonline.org">Climate
Change Collection</a> in the <a
href="http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eoearth.org%2F&i=1&d=3717CED3-BF09-4BD6-9356-D423E738E597&e=msurface@ncseonline.org"
title="http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http://www.eoearth.org/&i=1&d=3717CED3-BF09-4BD6-9356-D423E738E597&e=msurface@ncseonline.org">Encyclopedia
of Earth</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p1><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt'> <a
href="http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eoearth.org%2Farticle%2FClimate_Change_%2528collection%2529&i=0&d=3717CED3-BF09-4BD6-9356-D423E738E597&e=msurface@ncseonline.org"
title="http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http://www.eoearth.org/article/Climate_Change_%28collection%29&i=0&d=3717CED3-BF09-4BD6-9356-D423E738E597&e=msurface@ncseonline.org">http://www.eoearth.org/article/Climate_Change_%28collection%29</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p1><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p1><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt'>The Collection is anchored by an electronic version of
the <a
href="http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eoearth.org%2Farticle%2FIPCC_Fourth_Assessment_Report_%2528full_report%2529&i=2&d=3717CED3-BF09-4BD6-9356-D423E738E597&e=msurface@ncseonline.org"
title="http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http://www.eoearth.org/article/IPCC_Fourth_Assessment_Report_%28full_report%29&i=2&d=3717CED3-BF09-4BD6-9356-D423E738E597&e=msurface@ncseonline.org">Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change Nobel Prize-winning reports.</a> It also includes
articles by climate experts, biographies of individuals who have made important
contributions to climate science and policy, a timeline of key events in the
history of climate science and policy, a climate glossary, and much more.
Scientists, educators, environmental professionals and concerned citizens
should find the Collection to be an invaluable resource.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p1><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p1><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt'>We seek to expand the Collection with articles on a
wide rage of climate-relate’ topics and written for a large and diverse global
audience. We encourage potential contributors to <a
href="http://www.eoearth.org/article/Climate_change:_outline_of_topics"
title="http://www.eoearth.org/article/Climate_change:_outline_of_topics">contact
us</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p1><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p1><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt'>Please circulate these links among your networks.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p1><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p1><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt'>With best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p1><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p1><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt'>Cutler J. Cleveland<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p1><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt'>Professor of Geography and Environment, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Boston</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p1><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt'>Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Earth <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p2><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p2><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p1><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p3><span class=apple-converted-space><b><font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b></span><b><i><span
style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Online Encyclopedia Adds Preeminent
Climate Change Reports to Its Collection</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=p4><font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p5><b><i><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.5pt;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Encyclopedia of Earth adds
Nobel-prize winning reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</span></font></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=p6><font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:8.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p7><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>WASHINGTON</span></font></st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">DC</st1:State></st1:place>, <st1:date Year="2008" Day="27"
Month="5" ls="trans" w:st="on">MAY 27, 2008</st1:date>. – The world's
most respected scientific reports about climate change are now available
through the <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE)</span></i>,
an online resource designed to make authoritative information about the
environment widely available and easily accessible.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=p8><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p7><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>The
reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were recently
added to the EoE’s collection and are now accessible <a
href="http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eoearth.org%2Farticle%2FClimate_Change_%2528collection%2529&i=0&d=3717CED3-BF09-4BD6-9356-D423E738E597&e=msurface@ncseonline.org"
title="http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http://www.eoearth.org/article/Climate_Change_%28collection%29&i=0&d=3717CED3-BF09-4BD6-9356-D423E738E597&e=msurface@ncseonline.org"><span
class=s2><u><font color=blue><span
title="http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http://www.eoearth.org/article/Climate_Change_%28collection%29&i=0&d=3717CED3-BF09-4BD6-9356-D423E738E597&e=msurface@ncseonline.org">here</span></font></u></span></a>.<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>A program of the United Nations
Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organization, the IPCC
publishes periodic reports on the worldwide scientific consensus about climate
change and its potential impacts. <span class=apple-converted-space> </span>The
reports are intended to provide decision-makers and interested citizens with
the latest objective information about climate change. The IPCC received the
2007 Nobel Peace Prize for its work.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p8><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p7><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Mohan
Munasinghe, Vice-Chair of the IPCC and a member of the EoE's Advisory Board,
praised the publishing partnership, noting that the work of the world's
foremost authority on climate change is now reaching a much broader audience
through one of the most trusted sources of environmental information available
on the internet.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p8><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p7><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>"I
am delighted that our efforts to link the IPCC and EoE have borne fruit through
this publishing agreement," Munasinghe said. " It will make key
information on climate change readily accessible to everyone, and bring
enormous benefits to stakeholders ranging from high level decision makers,
policy analysts and researchers, to students and the concerned public."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p8><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p7><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Launched
in 2006, the EoE is the first free, expert-driven, massively scaleable online
information resource about the environment.<span class=apple-converted-space>
</span>Hundreds of the world's leading scientists and educators write and edit
articles for the encyclopedia on a variety of topics.<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p8><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p7><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>“Climate
change is now center stage in public awareness and political agendas”
noted Cutler Cleveland, Editor-in-Chief of the EoE and professor of Geography
an Environment at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Boston</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. “This
collaboration makes the best science about climate change freely available to
anyone with access to the Internet.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p8><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p7><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>The
Encyclopedia of Earth is one component of the Earth Portal, published by the
National Council for Science and the Environment in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Washington</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">D.C.</st1:State></st1:place><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>The Earth Portal also includes the
Earth Forum, featuring bogs by leading scientists and Earth News, providing
links to the latest environmental news from around the world. <span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p8><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=p9><span class=s3><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt'>For more information, visit <a
href="http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eoearth.org%2F&i=1&d=3717CED3-BF09-4BD6-9356-D423E738E597&e=msurface@ncseonline.org"
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and <a
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