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Patrick McCully
Executive Director
I became Executive Director of Black Rock Solar in February 2011 after 17 years working for International Rivers, first as Campaigns Director from and then, from 2005 as ED. I wrote a book, Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams, and numerous reports, articles, op eds, and blog posts on issues linking dams, water and energy policy, flood management, climate change, human rights and international development. Black Rock Solar installs photovoltaic power systems for tribes, non-profits in Nevada at low or no cost.

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Official Launch: In Hot Water

Tue, 11/18/2008 - 11:32am

Welcome to International Rivers' climate blog! Our climate team (Barbara Haya, Patrick McCully, Payal Parekh, Ann-Kathrin Schneider and Katy Yan) will be covering a variety of hot dam and climate related issues.

  • We'll cast a critical eye at carbon offsets, and in particular the efforts by the hydro lobby to make money out of the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism. And we'll look at what better ways may exist to transfer climate friendly financing and technology.
  • We'll review emerging science on how dams contribute to global warming pollution.
  • We'll comment on how we can best meet human needs for water and energy in a warming world. We'll look at how our existing water and energy infrastructure may be impacted by new patterns of droughts and floods. And we'll monitor attempts to use climate change to justify a new wave of dam building.
  • We'll report on new studies on how river ecosystems may respond to a warming world.
  • And we'll write up anything else with a climate, energy or water link that we find interesting, and we think you might find interesting too.

Hope we can provide some enlightment to our readers,

Barbara, Patrick, Payal, Ann Kathrin and Katy