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CONSERVATION GROUPS’ COMMENTS
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<br />leading minds and most respected institutions—guided by increasingly clear science and
<br />statistical evidence—agree that dramatic action is necessary to avoid planetary disaster.118
<br />Greenhouse gas concentrations have been steadily increasing over the past century,119 and our
<br />insatiable consumption of fossil fuels is pushing the world to a tipping point where, once
<br />reached, catastrophic change will be unavoidable.120 In fact, the impacts from climate change are
<br />already being experienced, with drought and extreme weather events becoming increasingly
<br />common.121
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<br />Richard A. Muller, Conversion of a Climate Change Skeptic, NEW YORK TIMES, July 28, 2012
<br />(attached as Exhibit 50) (citing Richard A. Muller, et. al., A New Estimate of the Average Earth
<br />Surface Temperature, Spanning 1753 to 2011, (attached as Exhibit 51); Richard A. Muller, et.
<br />al., Decadal Variations in the Global Atmospheric Land Temperatures (attached as Exhibit 52)). 118 See, e.g., Rob Atkinson, et. al., Climate Pragmatism: Innovation, Resilience, and No Regrets
<br />(July 2011) (attached as Exhibit 53); Veerabhadran Ramanathan, et. al., The Copenhagen Accord
<br />for Limiting Global Warming: Criteria, Constraints, and Available Avenues (Feb. 2010)
<br />(attached as Exhibit 54); UNITED NATIONS, INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE,
<br />Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report (2007) (attached as Exhibit 55); A.P. Sokolov, et. al.,
<br />Probablistic Forecast for Twenty-First-Century Climate Based on Uncertainties in Emissions
<br />(without Policy) and Climate Parameters, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT)
<br />(Oct. 2009) (attached as Exhibit 56); UNITED NATIONS, FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE
<br />CHANGE, Report of the Conference of the Parties (Dec. 2011) (attached as Exhibit 57); Bill
<br />McKibben, Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math, ROLLING STONE, July 19, 2012 (attached as
<br />Exhibit 58); Elizabeth Muller, 250 Years of Global Warming, BERKLEY EARTH, July 29, 2012
<br />(attached as Exhibit 59); Marika M. Holland, et. al., Future abrupt reductions in summer Arctic
<br />sea ice, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 33, L23503 (2006) (attached as Exhibit 60). 119 See Randy Strait, et. al., Final Colorado Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Reference Case
<br />Projections: 1990-2020, CENTER FOR CLIMATE STRATEGIES (Oct. 2007) (attached as Exhibit 61);
<br />Robin Segall et. al., Upstream Oil and Gas Emissions Measurement Project, U.S.
<br />ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (attached as Exhibit 62); Lee Gribovicz, Analysis of
<br />States’ and EPA Oil & Gas Air Emissions Control Requirements for Selected Basins in the
<br />Western United States, WESTERN REGIONAL AIR PARTNERSHIP (Nov. 2011) (attached as Exhibit
<br />63). 120 See, e.g., James Hansen, Tipping Point: Perspective of a Climatologist, STATE OF THE WILD
<br />2008-2009 (attached as Exhibit 64); GLOBAL CARBON PROJECT, A framework for Internationally
<br />Co-ordinated Research on the Global Carbon Cycle, ESSP Report No. 1 (attached as Exhibit
<br />65); INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY, CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion, Highlights 2011
<br />(attached as Exhibit 66); GLOBAL CARBON PROJECT, 10 Years of Advancing Knowledge on the
<br />Global Carbon Cycle and its Management (attached as Exhibit 67); Meinshausen, et. al.
<br />(attached as Exhibit 15). 121 See, e.g., UNITED NATIONS, INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE, Managing
<br />the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (2011)
<br />(attached as Exhibit 68); Aiguo Dai, Increasing drought under global warming in observations
<br />and models, NATURE: CLIMATE CHANGE (Aug. 2012) (attached as Exhibit 69); Stephen
<br />Saunders, et. al., Hotter and Drier: The West’s Changed Climate (March 2008) (attached as
<br />Exhibit 70).
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