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• Haymet Talk on Breakthroughs from the World’s Leading Research Institutions

  CleanTech Forum - Washington, D.C.  – Sept. 16, 2008
  
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    Forward looking leaders from Science outline the near to medium term breakthroughs which may provide disruptive market opportunities while addressing resource constraints, climate change, water scarcity and mitigation and adaptation opportunities over the 2nd and 3rd decades of the 21st Century.
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•  Acid Threat to Ocean Fisheries
  Australian Broadcasting Corporation  – Aug. 19, 2008
  A scientist is warning excessive greenhouse gas emissions are making the oceans more acidic, putting at risk global fisheries. Director Tony Haymet, from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, says organisms that make calcium carbonate shells are a pivotal part of the food chain for fish, and are being affected by the rising acidity. He says recent research work on carbon dioxide sinks in the oceans indicates there's a problem.
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• An Educational Journey: Questions for Tony Haymet
  Voice of San Diego - July 4, 2008
  Tony Haymet, an Australian chemist, was named the 10th director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego. He came to Scripps from Australia's national science research agency, where he served as science and policy director. In his two years at Scripps, four of the school's climate change researchers have won Nobel Peace prizes and the institution's global warming studies -- and its other academic research -- have continued receiving international attention. We sat down with Haymet to get his assessment of the world's oceans, to learn what evolutionary mysteries he'd like to understand about the ocean and to talk about his beef with NASA.
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• Haymet Remarks on Appreciation of Dr. Doug Henderson
  ACS Conference - Park City – June 15, 2008
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• China Just Might Surprise the U.S. on Climate Change
  San Francisco Chronicle, Opinion - May 28, 2008
  The next American administration should be prepared for a China that is getting serious about the climate change issue for its own domestic reasons. Chinese experts understand that global warming will affect their country much more severely than North America. (Written by Tony Haymet, Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and Susan Shirk, Director of the UC System-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation)
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• UCSD to Lower Its SDG&E Bills, Energize Renewable Resource Plan
  San Diego Business Journal -  April 28, 2008
  As part of its effort to promote renewable energy, UC San Diego will gradually reduce the amount of electricity it purchases from San Diego Gas & Electric Co. and replace it with "green" power produced from fuel cells and solar sources on campus. The primary reason for the change, which may result in cheaper electricity bills, is to reduce the school's greenhouse gas emissions, university officials say.
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• Keelings' Half-Century of CO² Measurements Serves as Global Warming's Longest Yardstick
  San Diego Union-Tribune - March 27, 2008
  Fifty years ago this month, geochemist Charles David Keeling began recording the curve of the earth. Few scientific studies have had a bigger impact, and not just on people in white lab coats. Like the carbon dioxide Keeling studied, the results of his research have circled the globe. He began monitoring CO² levels in the atmosphere at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, in March of 1958. He was working for Roger Revelle, then director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and one of the founders of UC San Diego.
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• Metro Movers To Watch In 08
  San Diego Metropolitan - Dec. 3, 2007
  Tony Haymet is the new face of global warming at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego,
  where in 1956 then-Scripps Director Roger Revelle established an atmospheric carbon dioxide monitoring program that laid the foundation for what concerns us today.
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• Better Ocean Monitoring 'Vital'
  BBC News - Nov. 25, 2007
  Warming seas, overfishing, and pollution mean it is vital to improve the system for monitoring the world's oceans, says a group of distinguished scientists. The researchers say more data is needed to ensure the world is able to respond effectively to any potential threats. Tony Haymet, chairman of the Pogo's executive committee and director of UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, said the international community had agreed to "construct a comprehensive, integrated ocean observing system two decades ago." But he added that the venture was less than half completed.
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• Studying Oceans with JOI
  La Jolla Village News - October 26, 2007
  The Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI) has awarded a $97.7 million contract to an academic partnership led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), to support the development, installation, and initial operation of the coastal and global components of the National Science Foundation's Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). The WHOI partnership includes Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
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• Governor Signs Ocean Protection Bills
  North County Times - October 15, 2007
  In a flurry of activity leading up to today's deadline for signing legislation passed this year, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week put his signature on several bills that boost protection of the Pacific Ocean. Tony Haymet, director of UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a trustee with the California Ocean Science Trust, praised the governor and Legislature. Haymet said the bills "demonstrate the commitment of our state's leadership to broad and forward-thinking ocean protection policies."
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• Project to Bring Undersea Wonders to Web Users
  San Francisco Chronicle - July 29, 2007
  Up to now, oceanographers went out on research vessels periodically, taking samples and making measurements, at a cost of about $25,000 per vessel per trip, said Tony Haymet, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. For the Ocean Observatories Initiative, Scripps will develop and manage sensors going deep into the ocean. Down the road, scientists will be able to predict what the ocean will be like in the future, create that world virtually, and travel in it, say those involved in the project.
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• Economic Summit Examines Both Threat and Opportunity
  Vancouver Sun, Opinion - May 31, 2007
  There is serious leadership on climate change arising from the west coast of the North American continent.
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• The Planet NASA Needs to Explore
  Washington Post, Opinion - May 10, 2007
  As momentum gathers to reinvigorate human space missions to the moon and Mars, we risk hurting ourselves, and Earth, in the long run.
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• Changing the State's Energy Dynamic
  San Diego Union-Tribune - May 9, 2008
  

  The creation of the California Institute for Climate Solutions, a $600 million new research institute created by the state Public Utilities Commission, demonstrates bold leadership on the seminal environmental and economic issue of our time – climate change. It also lets Californians do what we do best: lead in innovation in a way that is good for both the environment and the economy. Climate science was born here at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and continues to inform policy conversations today. Since its founding in 1903, Scripps has been an international leader in studying oceans, the driver of global climate change. Fifty years ago, Charles David Keeling from Scripps started the record of human impact on climate by measuring carbon – innovation that continues to this day. Now, led by renowned scientist Tony Haymet and supported by an entire community of world-class research institutes, universities, and companies, San Diego has been the center of activity around climate change for 50 years.
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• Urgent Need for Aussie Eyes in the Skies
  Sydney Morning Herald, Australia -  Mar. 31, 2007
  Australians are inspired by human space flight, but more importantly we are one of the world's great observers of planet Earth from space. During the past decade, we have opened our eyes in space and learned to use a variety of satellites to forecast cyclones, spot bushfires, measure soil moisture, foretell our weather, prospect for minerals, measure rising sea levels, monitor the Great Barrier Reef, and predict the "ocean state" for everyone from recreational fishermen and surfers to the Royal Australian Navy. The economic and security value of this information is untold. (Written by Tony Haymet, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
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• Overloaded Oceans
  Nine MSN, Opinion - Mar. 30, 2007
  Ocean acidification is a real and potentially devastating consequence of climate change that demands immediate attention. (Written by Tony Haymet, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
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• Bipartisan Move on Solar Needed, Warns Expert
  Sydney Morning Herald - Mar. 29, 2007
  Both sides of politics should not rely on "clean coal" technology as a solution to the nation's greenhouse emissions, the distinguished scientist who will open Labor's climate summit this weekend has warned.
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• No Surprises in Climate Change Report, Oceanographer Says
  ABC National Radio, Australia - Mar. 29, 2007
  Australia's leading oceanographer, Dr Tony Haymet believes there are lessons for Australia in the ambitious program by California Governor Arnie Schwarzenegger to reduce carbon emissions, and that Australia could lift its reputation in the international community by acting as an honest broker to help the world's two biggest polluters come to the party on global warming.
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• Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere - First Signs of Increase
  The Science Show - Mar. 10, 2007
  ABC National Radio, Australia
  The first predictions about CO₂ were made 100 years ago. The then director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Roger Revelle and Scripps scientist Charles David Keeling conducted the first experiments on CO₂ in the atmosphere 50 years ago. Tony Haymet says what we do in the next 5 years will effect where the world goes in terms of climate in the next 50, and beyond.
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• Keeping our Focus on What Matters Most
  The Oregonian, Opinion - Mar. 15, 2007
  The climate change we're experiencing is the most critical problem planet Earth has ever faced. The West needs to deliver that message with one voice.
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• Q&A: Tony Haymet and Richard C.J. Somerville
  San Diego Union-Tribune - Mar. 11, 2007
  UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been involved in global warming science for decades.
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• Q&A: Tony Haymet
  UC San Diego Chancellor's Office Website - 2007
  Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences Tony Haymet, a highly distinguished chemist, is the director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Here, he talks about Scripps’s enduring vitality and the future of global science research.
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• Climate Change and the Ocean Environment - Tony Haymet
  NATO Parliamentary Assembly - Nov. 15, 2006
  Science And Technology Committee
  This is the almost 50 year record of CO₂ concentration on top of Mauna Loa started by C.D. Keeling. The funding challenges along the way are noted. This CO₂ stays in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, and heats up our planet by trapping additional radiation energy - the so-called "greenhouse" effect. The physics of this effect is not contested by scientists. More