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New Study: Extreme Weather Events More Frequent Due to Climate Change

On June 19, 2008, the US Climate Change Science Program released a new report, Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate, on past and expected changes in weather and climate extremes in North America and U.S. territories. The report projects that more extreme weather events — droughts, heavy downpours, excessive heat, and intense hurricanes — are likely to become more frequent as global warming takes its course. This analysis is the first of its kind, as there has been no comprehensive analysis specifically on how global warming will affect weather and climate in North America. The report can be viewed for free on the US Climate Change Science Program’s website.

PSR Joins in Call for Diplomacy with Iran
Dr. Catherine Thomasson, former president of PSR, joined with others today in urging the Congress to set the stage for peaceful negotiations with Iran and decried the increasingly belligerent posturing by the administration. Read more...

This ad was created by PSR with the artistic assistance of The Action Mill. The ad ran in Politico, a thrice weekly publication that is delivered to Congressional offices and to hundreds of policy makers in Washington, DC.

EPA Proposed Lead Standard Ignores Public Health
While acknowledging the need to restrict the levels of lead allowed in air emissions, the Environmental Protection Agency failed, again, to utilize the best available science by proposing a rule that would allow children to be exposed to harmful levels of lead. Read more...

EPA Ozone Standard Falls Short
Ground-level ozone, commonly known as smog, is the nation’s most pervasive air pollutant. In a final rule announced yesterday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tightened the national air quality standard for ozone, but not to the level recommended by the Agency’s independent science advisors and a host of health and environmental organizations. Read more...

Court Victory on Mercury
A ruling by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop stronger power plant emission standards for mercury and other toxic pollutants. Click here to learn more.

Long Term Costs of Iraq War Overwhelming

A report to be released by PSR with Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) shows that the mental and social trauma from the Iraq war will be with the U.S. for decades and that actual fiscal cost may exceed those for combat activities. Dr. Evan Kanter, a member of the Board of Directors for PSR, compiled the report that details more than $650 billion in long term costs as well as mental disabilities and disruptions to families of returning veterans. Read more...

PSR Physician Finds Regional Nuclear War Could Kill One Billion People
Physician and PSR Board member Dr. Ira Helfand has presented a paper arguing that even a limited use of nuclear weapons could cost more than a billion lives globally. Read the paper here.

Medical Alliance to Stop Global Warming
Student leaders are bringing the critical issue of global warming to medical schools around the country. Learn more…

Dirty, Dangerous and Expensive: The Truth About Nuclear Power
Nuclear power is not the solution to global warming. A new fact sheet from PSR dispels the myths of nuclear power as a clean, safe, and affordable energy source. (Web Version, PDF)

Stop the Bombplex!
PSR speaks out against the Bush administration's Complex 2030 plan that would produce new nuclear warheads. Learn more...

A New H Bomb is Dangerous and Unnecessary
The new nuclear weapon proposed by the Bush Administration will endanger human life and health and undermine the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty regime. A new fact sheet from PSR describes the consequences of and responds to the arguments for developing a new hydrogen bomb. Read the fact sheet here.