Report to the Board on Recent Scientific Findings from Climate Change Studies, CARB Board Meeting

Dear Ms. Witherspoon:

I’m writing in reference to the presentation CARB Staff will give at the board meeting tomorrow on “Recent Scientific Findings from Climate Change Studies.” CARB frequently deals with issues of great scientific complexity, and climate change is perhaps the most complex of all. Thus, it makes sense for Staff to provide the Board with an understanding of the latest research in this rapidly developing field.

Nevertheless, I couldn’t help noticing that from among the wide range of scientific results reported in the climate literature, the research papers that Staff plans to present to the Board include only papers that suggest the Earth’s climate is changing in ways that pose serious risks for humankind and that human greenhouse gas emissions are the main cause of these climate changes.