WATCH OUR 3RD PUBLIC HEARING ON CLIMATE ACTION
3rd Public Hearing on Climate Action
What More Should The United States Do on Climate?
January 25, 2024 | Santa Barbara, California
Co-hosted by CPR Initiative and the Community Environmental Council of Santa Barbara
Speakers In Order of Appearance
- (Opening remarks) Kathi King, Director of Climate Education & Leadership, Community Environmental Council Environmental Hub Operations
- (00:02:12) Dan Galpern, General Counsel & Executive Director, CPR Initiative
- (00:10:25) Eelco Rohling (Recorded Statement below), Retired Professor in Ocean and Climate Change at the Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra
- (00:20:56) Dr. James E. Hansen, Director of Climate Science, Awareness & Solutions, Earth Institute, Columbia University & former Director of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
- (00:38:48) Nelson Bonner, CPR Initiative Board Member, Grandfather and Retired Technology Educator
- (00:46:08) Sir Robert Watson, Director of Strategic Development for the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, and former Director of the Science Division and Chief Scientist for the Office of Mission to Planet Earth at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- (00:53:57) Robert Wolcott, Founding Board Chair, Environmental Protection Network, former Deputy Assistant Administrator for Policy, US Environmental Protection Agency
- (01:03:26) Dr. Lise Van Susteren (Recorded Statement below), practicing general and forensic psychiatrist in Washington, DC, author, and CPR Initiative Board Secretary
- (01:10:31) Donn J. Viviani, President of CPR Initiative’s Board & former EPA scientist (over 35 years), including service as Director of EPA’s Climate Policy Division
- (01:16:09) Haley Ehlers, Climate First: Replacing Oil & Gas (CFROG)
- (01:19:13) Pieter Tans (statement provided by John Birks), Retired Climate Scientist with NOAA
- (01:27:15) Stan Roden, Local Climate Activist with Citizens’ Climate Lobby and Ambassador for MIT/Sloan Climate Interactive En-Roads Simulator
- (01:34:09) Ethan Maday (Speech and Written Statement Below), 8th Grade Middle School Student and Local Climate Activist
- (01:38:50) Penny Odom, Local Climate Activist
- (01:41:44) (Closing remarks) Dan Galpern, General Counsel & Executive Director, CPR Initiative
Written Testimony
Pre-Recorded Testimony
CPR Initiative is grateful to the Community Environmental Council of Santa Barbara for their partnership in our third public hearing on climate action. We also thank all our speakers—especially our climate experts, researchers, professors, students and local activists—all of whom provided important testimony to the record.
