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'''Michael Calvin MacCracken''' (1942-born 1942), has been Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs with the Climate Institute in Washington DC since 2002; he was also elected to its Board of Directors in 2006.

==Early life==

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Dr. MacCracken’s current research interests include [[climate engineering]] and the especially important role in limiting climate change that can be played by reduction in emissions of short-lived [[greenhouse gases]] and absorbing [[aerosols]]. He has also prepared several declarations relating to climate change, one of which was cited favorably by [[Justice Stevens]] in his majority opinion in the April 2007 decision by the [[US Supreme Court]] in the case of [[Massachusetts]] et al. versus the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency]] (EPA).

MacCracken is a fellow of the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]] (AAAS), and a member of the [[American Meteorological Society]], [[American Geophysical Union]], the [[Oceanography Society]], and [[Sigma Xi]]. He was a publicly elected member of the board of directors of the Livermore (California) Area Recreation and Park District (LARPD) from 1970–78. He also edited the book about [[Josiah Calvin McCracken]], his maternal grandfather. He is the great-grandson of [[Henry_MacCrackenHenry MacCracken|Henry Mitchell MacCracken]], grandson of [http://vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu/presidents/henry-noble-maccracken.html Henry Noble MacCracken], son of Calvin Dodd MacCracken, and brother of Mark MacCracken.

==References==

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*26. Moore, F. C., and M. C. MacCracken, 2009: Lifetime-leveraging: An approach to achieving international agreement and effective climate protection using mitigation of short-lived greenhouse gases, International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 1, 42–62.

*27. Link to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/05-1120.ZO.html

*2.28. ^ 2007 SUMMER POLICY COLLOQUIUM, Speaker Biographies, American Meteorological Society. Accessed August 9, 2011

*3.29. Helen McCracken Fulcher, edited by Michael MacCracken, 1995: Mission to Shanghai: The Life of Medical Service of Josiah C. McCracken, Tiffin Press, New London NH, 275 pp.

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