<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal">ADVISORY FOR: 11 AM, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2012<u></u><u></u></p><div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Contact: Giselle Barry (Markey) <a href="tel:202-225-2836" value="+12022252836" target="_blank">202-225-2836</a>, <a href="tel:202-510-3240" value="+12025103240" target="_blank">202-510-3240</a><u></u><u></u></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal">Eben Burnham-Snyder (Markey) <a href="tel:202-225-6065" value="+12022256065" target="_blank">202-225-6065</a>, <a href="tel:202-494-4486" value="+12024944486" target="_blank">202-494-4486</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Mark Gallagher (Markey) <a href="tel:781-396-2900" value="+17813962900" target="_blank">781-396-2900</a>, <a href="tel:781-799-1027" value="+17817991027" target="_blank">781-799-1027</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt">What If Sandy Happened Here? Faneuil Hall Town Hall to Explore </span></b><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt">Climate Change</span></b><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt"> Threat to Boston, New England</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Rep. Markey Joined by Climate Experts, Advocates to Illustrate Catastrophic Costs to Boston if Climate Change Left Unchecked</span></i><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>MEDFORD, MA.</b> – If some early forecasting models had come true, superstorm Sandy was on track for a direct hit on Boston. What if that had happened? Major Boston landmarks like the Garden and Faneuil Hall would have waves lapping against their doors. Sandy proved these are no longer the scenarios of disaster movies, but the current reality of the world’s weather supercharged by climate change. Sea-level rise and stronger storms will only add to the threat.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">This Sunday, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Malden) has been invited to join with climate scientists and advocates in a climate change Town Hall at Faneuil Hall to show the catastrophic costs that unchecked global warming would wreak on Boston, New England and the world, and discuss the solutions needed to avert the worst effects of climate change. The event is jointly sponsored by the Environmental League of Massachusetts and the Union of Concerned Scientists.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>WHAT: What If Sandy Happened Here?: Climate Change Town Hall at Faneuil Hall</b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<b>WHO: - Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), dean of the Massachusetts Congressional </b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><b>delegation</b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">-<span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><b>Dr. Paul Kirshen, Tufts University Visiting Scientist and Research Professor, UNH Civil Engineering Dept. & Institute for the study of Earth, Oceans & Space</b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">-<span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><b>Kevin Knobloch, President of the Union of Concerned Scientists</b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">-<span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><b>Mindy Lubber, President and CEO of Ceres</b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">-<span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span><b>George Bachrach, President of the Environmental League of Boston</b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<b>WHEN: Sunday, November 25, 2012, 11 AM</b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>WHERE: Historic Faneuil Hall, Boston, Mass.</b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
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<b>Jonathan S Krones</b></div><div>Research Assistant | MIT Urban Metabolism Group</div><div>PhD Student | MIT Engineering Systems Division</div><div><a href="mailto:jskrones@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank">jskrones@alum.mit.edu</a> | 301.788.4206</div>
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