WATCH our FIRST PUBLIC HEARING ON CLIMATE ACTION
Boulder Climate Action Hearing
What More Should The United States Do on Climate?
November 1, 2022 | Boulder, Colorado
Co-hosted by the City of Boulder & CPR Initiative
Speaker Line-up & Start Times
Welcome & Opening Remarks
- (0:00) Jonathan Koehn, Director of City of Boulder Department of Climate Initiatives
- (5:35) Dan Galpern, General Counsel & Executive Director, CPR Initiative
Petitioner Testimony
- (10:31) James E. Hansen, Director of Climate Science, Awareness & Solutions, Earth Institute, Columbia University & former Director of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
- (18:30) Donn J. Viviani, President, CPR Initiative & former EPA scientist (over 35 years), including service as Director of EPA’s Climate Policy Division
- (25:45) John Birks, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, 2B Technologies, a company that develops & manufactures air quality measurement monitors, Board Member, CPR Initiative
- (32:29) Richard Heede, Climate Accountability Institute & principal investigator for the widely-cited “Carbon Majors” project, which traces historical CO2 emissions to oil, natural gas & coal companies
- (41:46) Lise Van Susteren, Physician, Author, & Board Member: Physicians for Social Responsibility, Earth Day Network, Climate Psychiatry Alliance, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, CPR Initiative
Public Testimony
- (49:46) Richard Rood, Professor of Climate Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, OpenClimate.org (Written Testimony↗)
- (55:09) Chris Ennis, Quality Manager, 2B Technologies, CIRES-University of Colorado / NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Division, contributing author of the Scientific Assessment of ozone Depletion: 2010, a World Meteorological Organization Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project
- (59:44) Jeffrey Bennett, Astronomer, Teacher & Author of college textbooks in astronomy, mathematics, statistics & astrobiology (JeffreyBennett.com)
- (1:04:42) Ross J. Salawitch, Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Science & Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland
- (1:10:48) Rob Jackson, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Professor, Earth System Science, Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy
- (1:15:00) John Fitzgerald, CPR Initiative Board Vice-President, former Attorney at Law
- (1:21:48) Ken Buesseler, Senior Scientist, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
- (1:27:10) Jose Jimenez, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of Colorado-Boulder, Institute Fellow, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
- (1:32:00) Kathleen Sands, Lyons Climate Action Group (Written Testimony↗)
- (1:36:30) Guy Brasseur, Chair of the Joint Science Committee of the World Climate Research Programme, and distinguished scholar at National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
- (1:42:25) Jim Haagen-Smit, Secretary – Placer Land Trust, the grandson of Dr. Arie J. Haagen-Smit, a pioneer of air quality science and the first Chairman of the California Air Resources Board, a.k.a. the “father” of air pollution control.
- (1:46:35) Chuck Kutscher, Fellow & Senior Research Associate, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Institute, University of Colorado-Boulder, Former Director, NREL Buildings & Thermal Sciences Center, Author: Principles of Sustainable Energy Systems (Written Testimony↗)
- (1:51:45) (2:01:33) Kevin Anderson, Professor of Energy & Climate Change, School of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering, University of Manchester, former Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
- (1:55:25) Daniel Richter, Scientist, Vice President of Government Affairs, Citizens’ Climate Lobby
- (2:07:35) Isabelle Lyle, Master’s student, University of Colorado-Boulder
Closing Remarks
- (2:10:55) Dan Galpern, General Counsel & Executive Director, CPR Initiative
Written Testimony
CPR Initiative is grateful to the City of Boulder for its partnership in our first public hearing on climate action. We also thank speakers—including Petitioners, other experts, researchers, professors, students, and activists—all of whom provided important testimony.
