Global Warming: Passing the 'Tipping Point'
Our special investigation reveals that critical rise in world temperatures is now unavoidable by Michael McCarthy
The Independent/UK, February 11, 2006
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article344690.ece

A crucial global warming "tipping point" for the Earth, highlighted only last week by the British Government, has already been passed, with devastating consequences. Research commissioned by The Independent reveals that the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has now crossed a threshold, set down by scientists from around the world at a conference in Britain last year, beyond which really dangerous climate change is likely to be unstoppable.

The Melting Ice Cellar: What Native Traditional Knowledge
Is Teaching Us About Global Warming and Environmental Change - Patricia A. L. Cochran
24 Mar 2006, 8:00 PM @ Gallery, Memorial Union - Patricia Cochran, an Inupiat Eskimo born and raised in Nome, serves as Executive Director of the Alaska Native Science Commission (ANSC), a public, not-for-profit corporation. The ANSC provides a linkage for creating partnerships and communication between science and research and Alaska Native communities. This is the 35th Annual Richard Thompson Memorial Lecture.

At Iowa State University, Ames 

Reshaping Environmental Policy - Carolyn Raffensperger
23 Mar 2006, 8:00 PM @ Sun Room, Memorial Union - Carolyn Raffensperger, founding Executive Director Science and Environmental Health Network, will discuss the new book she co-edited Precautionary Tools for Reshaping Environmental Policy, published by MIT Press.

At Iowa State University, Ames 

"THE END OF SUBURBIA: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream"
7:00pm Wednesday, February 15
Gold Room of the Memorial Union

End of Suburbia
Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream.
But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge
about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty and a touch
of irony, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its
prospects as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply.
(2004, 78 minutes)
www.endofsuburbia.com/

sponsors:
ISU chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology

Several Iowa legislators have introduced a Clean Energy bill, HF2271:

http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?category=billinfo&...