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  1. chrisc
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    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.

    http://www.theage.com.au/environment/no-return-fea...

    Posted 16 years ago #
  2. chrisc
    Member

    I still can't find any audio / video from this conference but here is a statement it agreed:

    JOINT STATEMENT: Last call on Climate Change

    A statement from the 2008 Manning Clark House Conference: “Imagining the Real Life on a Greenhouse Earth”, 11-12 June, Australian National University, Canberra.

    Global warming is accelerating. The Arctic summer sea ice is expected to melt entirely within the next five years, - decades earlier than predicted in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 4th Assessment Report.

    Scientists judge the risks to humanity of dangerous global warming to be high. The Great Barrier Reef faces devastation. Extreme weather events, such as storm surges adding to rising sea levels and threatening coastal cities, will become increasingly frequent.

    There is a real danger that we have reached or will soon reach critical tipping points and the future will be taken out of our hands. The melting Arctic sea ice could be the first such tipping point.

    Beyond 2ºC of warming, seemingly inevitable unless greenhouse gas reduction targets are tightened, we risk huge human and societal costs and perhaps even the effective end of industrial civilisation. We need to cease our assault on our own life support system, and that of millions of species. Global warming is only one of many symptoms of that assault.

    Peak oil, global warming and long term sustainability pressures all require that we reduce energy needs and switch to alternative energy sources. Many credible studies show that Australia can quickly and cost-effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions through dramatic improvements in energy efficiency and by increasing our investment in solar, wind and other renewable sources.

    The need for action is extremely urgent and our window of opportunity for avoiding severe impacts is rapidly closing. Yet the obstacles to change are not technical or economic, they are political and social.

    We know democratic societies have responded successfully to dire and immediate threats, as was demonstrated in World War II. This is a last call for an effective response to global warming.

    [Approved by the delegates of the conference, 12 June 2008]

    http://www.aussmc.org/Climate_joint_statement.php

    Posted 16 years ago #

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