Sharon S. Tisher
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About Sharon
Tisher's research focuses on environmental law, climate science and policy, and pesticide regulation. The overarching theme in A Climate Chronology, a 300-page color coded chronology of developments in climate science and in U.S. and international policy from 1824 through to the present, is the disconnect between advancement in scientific understanding, and development of policy to address the crisis. Tisher is a retired trial attorney, a member of Al Gore's Climate Reality Leadership Corps, and has served as President and chair of the Public Policy Committee of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, and as President of the Natural Resources Council of Maine.
Contributions
Refuting Climate Change Deniers with Their Own Sources
In the News
Publications
Presents a searchable document available at the above link which explains developments in climate science over the last 200 years in juxtaposition with events in U.S. and international policy. Provides links to news and commentary for further research. Displays the connections and disconnections between science and policy, and offers readers the opportunity to develop their own understanding of the origins of those disconnections.
Presents a list of questions, drawing from information and research found in peer-reviewed journals, advocacy group commissioned studies, and venerable science texts to educate Mainers who would endeavor to increase their knowledge of pesticides and their understanding of safe, alternative treatments and methods.
Urges action in Congress to address the problem of climate change, and stems from interviews with Senator Susan Collins, Senator Angus King, and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree regarding their climate-related initiatives in 2015.
Details the restoration endeavors that the government will have to take to counter the ecological crisis in the Florida Everglades (including restoring the hydrology of the region to more closely approximate pre-flood control and pre-drainage groundwater levels, flooding and sheet flow dynamics, effecting the "unchanneling" of once meandering rivers, and transforming agricultural or residential lands to wetlands), and analyzes Florida common law and federal constitutional law to determine whether such restorative efforts are likely to be characterized as unconstitutional "takings" requiring compensation.