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Today, Al Gore, along with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, officially received the Nobel Peace Prize.
And of course, there’s a Rockland connection! Fourteen of the IPCC scientists are on staff of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, a research center in Palisades.
Lamont research takes place around the globe, and the impact of its scientists’ work reaches far and wide.
But it also touches us in Rockland. Lamont has been called on many times on local issues. In March, the county health department sought help from Lamont for water testing after United Water reported that a series of tests on two wells turned up arsenic levels that exceeded federal standards. This fall, Lamont experts on water quality came to a Rockland County Legislature Environmental Committee meeting to discuss trace arsenic levels found in a different United Water well. Their involvement in a global study of arsenic in water helped Rocklanders understand the local situation.
Read Gore’s speech this morning in Oslo City Hall in Norway here.
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on Monday, December 10th, 2007 at 11:51 am by Nancy Cutler.
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