This conference, which eneded yesterday:
IMAGINING THE REAL LIFE ON A GREENHOUSE EARTH
A conference organised by Manning Clark House in honour of Dr Barry Jones
Australian National University, Canberra
Wednesday 11 June and Thursday 12 June 2008
Featuring climate scientists: Prof Barry Brook, Prof Ian Enting, Prof Janette Lindesay, Prof Graeme Pearman, Dr Barrie Pittock, Prof Will Steffen; Earth and prehistory scientists: Dr Geoff Davies, Dr David Denham, Dr Andrew Glikson (conference convenor), Dr Simon Haberle, Prof Malcolm McCulloch, Dr Bradley Opdyke; political leaders: Senator Lyn Allison, Dr Carmen Lawrence, Senator Christine Milne; environmental lawyer: Phillip Toyne; health and population experts: Prof Stephen Boyden, Dr Bryan Furnass (conference co-convenor), Prof Tony McMichael, Dr Sue Wareham; humanists: Phillip Adams, Dr Paul Collins, Tony Kevin, Dierk von Behrens; poet: Mark O’Connor.
Sounds like it will have been good, I'll try to find some audio / video of it...
Article about it here:
'No return' fears on climate change
Chris Hammer - June 12, 2008
THE world could be tracking towards irreversible climate change as warming takes place much quicker than previously thought, an Adelaide academic has warned.
Climate change expert Barry Brook, of Adelaide University, told a Canberra conference — Imagining the Real Life on a Greenhouse Earth — atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were headed towards 600 parts a million, and forecast global temperature increases of up to six degrees.