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Experts to Caution Against Heeding Head-in-Sand Approach to Global Warming, Unwarranted Alarmism that Ignores the Strong Economic Potential from Green Jobs, Increased Energy Efficiency and Climate-Related Innovation.
DETROIT, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A group of Michigan and national experts will hold a "prebuttal" phone briefing at 1:30 p.m. ET Monday ahead of a so-called "climate change dialogue" event organized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for Tuesday in Detroit.
In the wake of an election that makes action on climate change more likely, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is holding a series of events across the United States to minimize concerns about global warming and also to promote alarmist claims about the economic implications of taking action to curb climate change. In doing so, the Chamber ignores the solid scientific consensus that global warming is both real and that it demands immediate action by policymakers. The Chamber also makes job and tax-related claims that have been thoroughly debunked and which totally ignore the considerable employment and economy-boosting potential of green job creation, increased energy efficiency and climate-related scientific and other innovation.
The Michigan and national experts participating in the Monday media briefing will expose the misleading arguments made by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the considerable amount of clean energy economy good news for Michigan and the nation that the Chamber is ignoring.
News event speakers will be:
* Dr. Andrew Hoffman, associate professor of management & organizations, associate professor of natural resources and associate director of the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan;
* Dr. Martin Kushler, director, Utilities Program, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy; and
* Nancy Bacon, senior advisor, energy conversion devices, United Solar Ovonic Corp, a member of the boards of the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI), the Solar Energy Industries Association, and the United States Industry Coalition (USIC), and also a member of the management committee of Cobasys.
TO PARTICIPATE: You can join this live, phone-based Michigan news conference (with full, two-way Q&A) at 1:30 p.m. ET on November 17, 2008 by dialing 1 (800) 860-2442. Ask for the "Michigan renewable/climate prebuttal" news event.
CAN'T PARTICIPATE?: A streaming audio recording of this Michigan news event will be available on the Web as of 6 p.m. ET on November 17, 2008 at http://www.nrdc.org.
SOURCE Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC
