Patrick Moore, Ph.D.
http://ecosense.me/
Dr. Patrick Moore has been a leader in the international
environmental field for over 30 years. He is a founding
member of Greenpeace and served for nine years as
President of Greenpeace Canada and seven years as a Director
of Greenpeace International. As the leader of many campaigns
Dr. Moore was a driving force shaping policy and direction
while Greenpeace became the world's largest environmental
activist organization.
In recent years, Dr. Moore has been focused on the promotion
of sustainability and consensus building among competing
concerns. He was a member of British Columbia
government-appointed Round Table on the Environment and
Economy from 1990 - 1994. In 1990, Dr. Moore founded and
chaired the BC Carbon Project, a group that worked to
develop a common understanding of climate change
Dr. Moore served for four years as Vice President,
Environment for Waterfurnace International, the largest
manufacturer of geothermal heat pumps for residential
heating and cooling with renewable earth energy.
As Chair of the Sustainable Forestry Committee of the Forest
Alliance of BC, he leads the process of developing the
"Principles of Sustainable Forestry" which have been adopted
by a majority of the industry.
In 1991 Dr. Moore founded Greenspirit, a consultancy
focusing on environmental policy and communications in
natural resources, biodiversity, energy and climate change
In 2000, Dr. Moore published Green Spirit - Trees are the
Answer, a photo-book that provides a new insight into how
forests work and how they can play a powerful role in
solving many of our current environmental problems.
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Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1969-1972
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Ph.D. in Ecology, Institute of Resource Ecology,
University of British Columbia, 1972
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Honours B.Sc. in Forest Biology, University of British
Columbia
Here is a more detailed bibliography
http://ecosense.me/ecosense-wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/CO2-Emissions.pdf
Executive Summary
• This study looks at the positive environmental effects of
carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, a topic which has been well
established in the scientific literature but which is far
too often ignored in the current discussions about climate
change policy. • All life is carbon based and the primary
source of this carbon is the CO2 in the global atmosphere. •
As recently as 18,000 years ago, at the height of the most
recent major glaciation, CO2 dipped to its
lowest
level in recorded history at 180 ppm, low enough to stunt
plant growth. This is only 30 ppm above a level that would
result in the death of plants due to CO2 starvation. • It is
calculated that if the decline in CO2 levels were to
continue at the same rate as it has over the past 140
million years, life on Earth would begin to die as soon as
two million years from now and would slowly perish almost
entirely as carbon continued to be lost to the deep ocean
sediments. • The combustion of fossil fuels for energy to
power human civilization has reversed the downward trend in
CO2 and promises to bring it back to levels that are likely
to foster a considerable increase in the growth rate and
biomass of plants, including food crops and trees. • Human
emissions of CO2 have restored a balance to the global
carbon cycle, thereby ensuring the long-term continuation of
life on Earth. • This extremely positive aspect of human CO2
emissions must be weighed against the unproven hypothesis
that human CO2 emissions will cause a catastrophic warming
of the climate in coming years. • The one-sided political
treatment of CO2 as a pollutant that should be radically
reduced must be corrected in light of the indisputable
scientific evidence that it is essential to life on Earth.
Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a
Sensible Environmentalist is Dr. Patrick Moore's engaging
firsthand account of his many years spent as the ultimate
Greenpeace insider, a co-founder and leader in the
organization's top committee. Moore explains why, 15 years
after co-founding it, he left Greenpeace to establish a more
sensible, science-based approach to environmentalism. From
energy independence to climate change, genetic engineering
to aquaculture, Moore sheds new light on some of the most
controversial subjects in the news today. |