Climate Change: Implications for BC. A Briefing on the IPCC 5th Report
Monday, September 30
9:30-11am
Asia Pacific Hall, Wosk Centre for Dialogue, 580 West Hastings St.
Free
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN Body, is releasing the first of three major reports on climate change on September 27th, it’s first comprehensive reports since 2007. … Leading BC climate scientists and senior contributors to the report will make sense of the IPCC assessment process, what is new in climate science and the implications for BC.
Join us to learn the state of climate science—why and how the climate has changed and how it could change in the future—and what it all means for BC. There will be plenty of time for questions from the audience; the public and media are welcome.
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Update from Australia:
Regular correspondent Peter Berkeley in Brisbane will perhaps be getting a briefing by the new Australian Climate Council – the response to the killing of its predecessor, the independent Climate Commission, by new Aussie Prime Minister Stephen … I’m sorry, Tony Abbott.
Reports Peter:
This is really inspiring and hopefully sends a strong message out to the global citizenry that there are a lot of Australians who are passionate and concerned about climate change, irrespective of our newly elected head-in-the-sand, climate-denying right-wing government.
Inadvertently I think Abbott has generated a stronger climate movement than what we had before. This crowdsourcing campaign is empowering a lot of people who previously felt powerless to act in any meaningful way.
When I joined the Climate Council two days ago they had only raised about $25,000 . There are now over 15,000 founding members, 51,000 likes on their Facebook page and they have raised over $400,000 in two days!
News story here.
On Facebook here and here.
