Union of Concerned Scientists
Union of Concerned Scientists was established at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969 in support of the Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty.[1].
The Center for Science and Democracy is an initiative of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
The Union of Concerned Scientists has received funding from George Soros' Open Society Foundations.[2]
About
In cooperation with Physicians for Social Responsibility and related groups, UCS sponsored 150 campus teach-ins on November 11, 1981. UCS programs were weighted with speakers against U.S. defense and foreign policies and favoring unilateral disarmament, with a token opponent invited to lend credibility to the event. UCS organizer Peter Stein has built a campus network with an "arms project steering committee" that will attempt to expand campus outreach in November.
The Zill report noted UCS intends to become more involved "outside the U.S. with teach-ins in European centers too." UCS organized an international meeting of 40 disarmament scientists to be held in New York at Roosevelt University during the second week of SSD-II, and is raising money to fully pay expenses for 15, plus a portion of the expenses for others. The group claims more than 100,000 sponsors nationwide.[1]
Corporations Cause Wildfires
According to an "open access letter"[3] dated 16 May 2023 titled "Quantifying the contribution of major carbon producers to increases in vapor pressure deficit and burned area in western US and southwestern Canadian forests" by Kristina A Dahl, John T Abatzoglou, Carly A Phillips, J Pablo Ortiz-Partida, Rachel Licker, L Delta Merner and Brenda Ekwurzel of the Union of Concerned Scientists, the authors allege that increased wildfires are due to emissions from "88 major fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers".
A partisan article at CNN by Rachel Ramirez titled "More than a third of the area charred by wildfires in Western North America can be traced back to fossil fuels, scientists find"[4] citing the "open access letter" explained that researchers in the study came to their conclusions by taking "actual climate data and compar[ing] it to an idealized, modeled version of the world where there was no fossil fuel pollution from the 88 companies..."
Personnel
The UCS board of directors is chaired by Henry M. Kendall of MIT. Among the board members are Dr. James A. Fay; Dr. Kurt Gottfried; Leonard Meeher; Herbert Scoville, former CIA deputy director; and Richard Wright. The UCS executive director is Eric E. Van Loon.[1]
Carl Sagan Connection
In 1997, Joseph Bradshaw wrote a tribute to "Carl Sagan (1934-1996): An appreciation" posted at the World Socialist Web Site:[5]
- "In collaboration with others he proposed the theory of a 'nuclear winter,' explaining that a nuclear war would create huge dust clouds that would block the sunlight and halt plant photosynthesis. This would be accompanied by drastic drops in temperature and the extinction of life on earth. Sagan became a leading spokesperson for organizations such as the Union of Concerned Scientists, which used the nuclear winter model to expound on the horrors of nuclear war and oppose the use and development of nuclear weapons."
Partner of the March for Science
Union of Concerned Scientists is listed on the March for Science website as a "partner."[6]
References
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 1.2 The War Called Peace: Glossary, published 1982
- ↑ The people's billionaire: George Soros gave $36M to groups behind People's Climate March (accessed February 1, 2021)
- ↑ Quantifying the contribution of major carbon producers to increases in vapor pressure deficit and burned area in western US and southwestern Canadian forests (accessed May 16, 2023)
- ↑ [More than a third of the area charred by wildfires in Western North America can be traced back to fossil fuels, scientists find (accessed May 16, 2023)]
- ↑ Carl Sagan (1934-1996): An appreciation (accessed on January 30, 2021)
- ↑ Partners, Accessed April 14 2018