Bill Blair's

Global Warming Information Page

Global Warming Basics: A presentation for Non-specialists on Speaking to the Public About Global Warming and Climate Change

Over the last year or so, I have developed several public-level talks on the topics of Global Warming and Climate Change. The version linked below was presented to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Air Management Association (MARAMA) meeting held in Baltimore, MD, in late February 2008. After a few introductory slides about the need to communicate with the general public, this walks through a version of my public talk, titled "Global Warming: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." The links below provide access to a PDF and powerpoint (PPT) version of this presentation. If you use these materials, please provide proper credit for their source.


Presbytery of Baltimore's Care for Creation Task Group

Bill has joined the CCTG, a sub-committee of the Presbytery of Baltimore's Peace and Justice committee. The CCTG tries to spread the word regarding the need to care for creation by helping local Baltimore Presbyterian congregations embrace the issues and investigate how they can become more involved and make a difference. The CCTG supports a nice web page HERE.

The CCTG coordinated a special workshop at the Nov. 20, 2008, meeting of the Presbytery of Baltimore. Bill presented a talk, Creation Cries Out: Is Anybody Listening? This link connects to an annotated html slide show version of this talk, which is also posted on the CCTG Resources page.


JHU Global Warming Lunchtime Discussion Forum Talks, Spring 2008

In the spring of 2008, I coordinated with the JHU Sustainability Initiative to host several discussion forum meetings for the wider JHU community. Here are two topical presentations (in PDF format) used for that series:

Each presentation was followed by an open discussion with those present.


(I will add more here as time permits.)

If you find these materials helpful, or if you have suggestions for improvements, I would enjoy hearing from you! (No promises, however. I have to do this in my spare time, of which there is essentially none!)

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Last updated: April 2009.

Bill Blair (wpb@pha.jhu.edu)