ACTION: Help our elected leaders become educated about climate change so they can make more informed decisions on our behalf.
WHAT'S NEEDED: An informational hearing for NH House Science, Technology, and Energy (STE) Committee members with the state’s official climatologist, Dr. Mary Stampone of UNH. Dr. Stampone would be happy to make herself available for this if invited by the STE Committee Chairman, but he has ignored citizens' requests to offer that invitation for years.
This is needed because the STE Committee Chairman, Representative Notter, and other GOP members on the STE Committee do not accept the scientific consensus that global warming since 1900 is mainly due to climate pollution from fossil fuels or that policy changes are required at the state and federal levels for our safety and economic well-being. Many of the STE Committee's decisions this year were split down party lines, decided by opinions of the GOP majority rather than by facts and scientific understanding. As a result, New Hampshire citizens and businesses are suffering from rising fossil fuel energy prices and excessive pollution.
Watch the STE Committee's executive session on HB106 and HB306 in January 2025 for an example of the misinformed opinions that are shaping legislative outcomes this session. (See A Case Study for more on HB306). You'll also see that some science-based champions are speaking reasonably and eloquently on our behalf, but they are outnumbered.
EMAIL or CALL: Please contact Representative Michael Vose, Chairman of the STE Committee, and ask him to invite our state’s official climatologist, Dr. Mary Stampone of UNH, to speak at an informational hearing with his Committee to summarize what we know through science about climate change, review how it will impact our state as reported in the 2022 NH Climate Assessment Report, and answer questions his members have about how and what we know about climate change based on all the available evidence, and how certain we can be about that scientific understanding.
He needs to hear from more citizens: email him at michael.vose@gc.nh.gov or call (603) 734-4084.
If you are curious about what Dr. Stampone may share with the STE Committee, watch the NH Network event in which she previewed the 2022 NH State Climate Assessment: NH Network Presents: Preparing for New Normals in NH's Climate.