Sierra Club's Carl Pope to speak to committee about national security threat posed by global warming

[Kolesar]

MEDIA ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 17 April 2007
CONTACT: Josh Dorner, 202.675.2384 (w), 202.679.7570 (m)

Carl Pope, Distinguished Panel to Testify About Global Warming and National
Security
First-ever Hearing of New House Select Committee

Global warming is the greatest environmental challenge we have ever faced.
Understanding the significance of the threat and the need for Congressional
action, Speaker Pelosi created the House Select Committee on Energy
Independence and Global Warming. The first hearing to be held by the new
committee, which is chaired by Rep. Ed Markey, will explore the national
security threat posed by global warming. Carl Pope will discuss the causes
of global warming and oil dependence and explain the risks global warming
poses to our environment, economy, and security. Pope will also discuss
the solutions available today--improving fuel economy, setting a federal
renewable electricity standard, and implementing an economy-wide carbon cap
to reduce our global warming emissions 80 percent by 2050.


WHO: Carl Pope, Sierra Club Executive Director
Richard Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations
James Woolsey, Former CIA Director, VP for Global Strategic
Security,
Booz Allen Hamilton
Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn, USN (Ret.), Senior Vice President
and
General Manager, Energy, Transportation and Environment
Division, Battelle Memorial Institute
Gen. Gordan Sullivan, USA (Ret.), President and Chief Operating
Officer,
Association of the United States Army

WHAT: "Geopolitical Implications of Rising Oil Dependence and Global
Warming." First hearing of the new House Select Committee on
Energy
Independence and Global Warming.

WHEN: WEDNESDAY 18 APRIL, 9:30 A.M.

WHERE: 1100 Longworth House Office Building