SACRAMENTO – On Monday, August 24, 2015, Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León met with Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. Dr. Veerabhadran has been conducting original research in Climate and Atmospheric Science since the 1970s. He is internationally renowned for his discovery of the potent greenhouse effect of halo carbons (CFCs) in 1975, as well as for his research on the global warming effect of black carbon.
Dr. Ramanathan is a member of the Council of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the scientific advisory council of the Vatican, and a driving force in Pope Francis’s recent Encyclical on climate change, Laudato Si’.
“The carbon mitigation plans put forth by California’s SB 350 is exactly the sort of bold actions demanded in Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si’,” Dr. Ramanathan said. “Without such mitigation efforts for protecting the planet and humanity, IPCC and other scientific bodies predict the coming decades will witness more severe storms, more mega droughts, more heat waves and threatening sea level rise among other extreme climate phenomenon.”
Senator De León and Dr. Ramanathan discussed Senate Bill 350, making clean energy accessible to the poor, and the importance of California’s continued leadership in advance of Conference of the Parties of the United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held in Paris in December.
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Statement on Papal Encyclical on the environment and climate change: http://go.usa.gov/3pW8u
Separate the facts from the fiction on SB 350: http://focus.senate.ca.gov/climate/sb350-facts.
For more information on the California Climate Leadership Package visit http://focus.senate.ca.gov/climate.