CU Boulder professor and Director of CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences), Waleed Abdalati, testified in a hearing on April 15 held by the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. The hearing, titled “Making the Case for Climate Action: The Growing Risks and Costs of Inaction,” was the first hearing of the committee in 2021. Rep. Joe Neguse introduced Dr. Abdalati. 

Dr. Abdalati’s testimony can be read here. Read more about the hearing from CU Boulder Geography Faculty News Spring 2021.

Dr. Waleed Abdalati, Director of CIRES, testifies to Congress on the climate crisis

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