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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">UM Regents Professor Emeritus and Nobel Prize-winning
climate scientist, Steve Running will speak about the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) most recent assessment and NorthWestern Energy's
flawed "net zero" plan at 350 Montana's action committee meeting <b>Monday,
April 18, at 5:30 p.m. at the First Methodist Church, 300 East Main, Missoula. <span></span></b></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Greenhouse gas emissions were the largest in history in
2021, as were global temperatures. Montana’s monopoly utility, NorthWestern
Energy, meanwhile, missed the IPCC's two fundamental targets -- limiting rising
temperatures to 1.5 C by cutting emissions over the next 10 years. <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Running will discuss the implications.<span></span></span></p>

<p style="line-height:150%;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In his op-ed in <a href="https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/ss/c/tTBUZwcBH_2q13Ow12s-jfgSDylE29lV2faaRhWzLwJKyzmG_hJzfSzpFLx2GAWr-uwVTB6-ttuoSNlyeLZ1SPyCeFqS2i8qzh9mMhKUlzOOS61JItY8bZT4r0V9f6Ml-YAo_7m1xIoDGWoJm6X-A2yUy-Xmyqa18tnhOPM_AebgCOvoA2VdS6bFZlcyZnDt0-diAkTV4XFkJUIxmwhUDtB9eRDA67OzayhDagJ0vY8qonuGjLITfz6zDx9-ZQhCiaEEO0zJeihzLXJgho7xrI35lpTPvuW5y3iRsiCk25nNUTG4pHpb0S7q9aep9J8gpvDf4PoujKculpUIeaAgO0SVfY1p5dYH5rgbBZ7728V7hk8O0dleso-5AjVrWsirLI4GaqGS88NYajFZ8kBPAWPVguDnQqVIzu6vMd-NO3SJmY-uuml1wOeNk3WtOMsDN2ZBLkimls009fkuUhVt0ADXLJ7JxXVAnRIg9FyaZrFp21H6oSwzsldgfBDeAVAMp6ZpeJLPpKMFk3H3Cjovrg/3l1/ned2b2NISVaq0c8514bw8Q/h1/BNTzkCASkonIgXRo-T63qy2Wk9a0PAuq7owrQ1uwooI" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">The Montana Standard</a> on March 13, Steve wrote, "I was
a chapter lead author of the IPCC report that shared the Nobel Peace Prize in
2007. Back then we were careful to describe our findings of the many varied
climate responses and impacts with terms like 'very likely' and 'high
probability'. I now read the IPCC 6th Assessment reports, and the terms
describing climate trends and impacts are 'unequivocal' and 'virtually
certain'. As scientists, we are not prone to hyperbole, if anything we may be
criticized for being too careful in waiting for proof before speaking. The
urgency these authors are trying to convey is palpable."<span></span></p>

<p style="line-height:150%;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A world-class scientist, Steve and his colleagues
won the Nobel Prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater
knowledge about <a href="https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/ss/c/XlxiKm-amnZREMhISCI1HXQNhtjsneutCg2HYRlFrgZ0GhVZoB1ne8myKuAqNEm1zkFRlAXFk_GWpecNYlHK6D7IQIJbSSlAd57v7VDXguDrbZxTnKcv_JxJipCky-gcDCIT5Q_eSKuiq4ZOXmM1j3IKHJdf-wlBKbiWu0GDAfGkYeB2x0j--IdOZHCxovsgldVliznkeb7YCS-S8KsJy288AHvc3-PomEXv6jSsWRoPw-4z8UiHcVAFzP3tSMU_oHgyA2CncucLCp39t9ejTwei4bIUdOF2nuLLxNR39Kf4tIpHAJZCll8x3S-lkRreG7ztcrIjkJLPxSQhVcPk-v3YGjX_899YaZySilcPqmuVEwezcf8VeHkC82fBaiTB/3l1/ned2b2NISVaq0c8514bw8Q/h2/VU5SCauHwxOwdxR7kf6K75BGv2wXkD8ErPSafwsglCc" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">man-made climate change</a>, and to lay the foundations for the
measures that are needed to counteract such change."<span></span></p>

<p style="line-height:150%;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">He's also very approachable and engaging. This
isn't a PowerPoint slide presentation crammed with scientific graphs, but a
conversation.<span></span></p>





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