OBJECTIVE:  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 Vose, 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. 

Rather than preparing the state for an inevitable federal price on climate pollution by making wise investments in energy efficiency, electrification, and accelerating clean energy deployments, the state's fossil-fuel-friendly legislature is locking us into a predictably more expensive energy future.

EMAIL or CALL ACTIONS:   Make your concerns and wishes be known!

1) 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.

2) Please contact your town's State Legislators to let them know you care about climate change, that you are disappointed at how the state legislature has been handling the issue and energy matters in the last few sessions.  Then say uninformed decisions seem to be originating from the NH House Science, Technology, and Energy Committee because the majority of its members are not up to date on basic climate science.  Ask them to encourage the NH House STE Committee chairman to invite the official NH State Climatologist, Dr. Mary Stampone of UNH, to review the 2022 Climate Assessment Report in an informational hearing for the STE Committee, and provide a Q&A to help clear up the misunderstandings and confusion many of the members on that committee have regarding what we know through science about climate change, how it is impacting NH today, and what NH can do to act responsibly and prepare for the future. 

You can find the phone number and email address of each of your town's state legislators at gc.nh.gov/house/members.