by Orita | January 15th, 2008
St. Kitts and Nevis Scientist Made Laureate for Climate Change Report
On Friday, 12th October, the Norwegian Nobel Committee declared the latest recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. One such prize was awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (“IPCC”) jointly with former US Vice President Al Gore. Within minutes, Dr.Martin Parry, Chairman of the IPCC Working Group 11, informed all participating scientists of the IPCC, of which Dr. Sam Rawlins of St. Kitts is one of the 3,000 such scientists from around the world who worked in preparing the Fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change, that they are indeed laureates with the IPCC and Former Vice President Al Gore.
These scientists had worked laboriously in preparing this Assessment Report which presented the most recent evidence of the impact of greenhouse gases, produced anthropogenically (by human activity), on the warming situation on the earth and adaptation to such negative impacts.
Dr. Rawlins, an emeritus scientist of the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre (“CAREC”)/PAHO/WHO, has worked in the region in the areas of surveillance and control of vector-borne and parasitic diseases of man. He is also a past Senior Lecturer of the University of the West Indies at the Mona Campus. He is one of six Caribbean scientists who participated in the IPCC working group. The others were Professor Anthony Chen of the Mona Campus, Dr. Lennard Nurse (UWI, Barbados), Dr. John Agard (UWI, T&T), Dr. Roger Pulwatty (Trinidad) and Dr. Ulric Trotz of Guyana/Belize.
Asked about his IPCC involvement, Dr. Rawlins had this to say: “I worked as Lead Author in the IPCC Working Group 11 for this Assessment Report in the area of Climate Change affecting public health worldwide. By sensitizing and warning the policy makers of the world – with real verifiable evidence – we were able to make possible a greener, safer environment for the future for our children and ourselves. It was a tremendous privilege to work with the world’s best Climate Change scientists, and for this work to be selected for the Nobel Prize for 2007”.
The Nobel Prize was presented in Oslo on December 10.
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