Speaker notes, slides and data are online from a conference sponsored by the California Energy Commission & California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA): Climate Scenarios, Impacts, and Adaptation Options in California: Status of Research Activities (Sacramento, Sep. 13-15, 2006)
Includes slides from keynote speaker James Hansen of NASA: Is There Still Time to Avoid Disasterous Human-Made Climate Change? He opened by presenting detailed facts from multiple international studies and projections based upon the latest scientific examinations. He sketched the effective roles played by scientists, the media, special interests, the public and the government in the response to the CFC threat and compared it to the leadership failures, disinformation campaigns and subordination to special interests exhibited in response to the global warming threat.
Hansen closed with a question of law and morals for us and our grandchildren: "As it appears that the world may pass a tipping point soon, beyond which it will be impossible to avert massive future impacts on humans and other life on the planet: who bears (legal/moral) responsibility?"
Posted by dougsimpson at October 18, 2006 08:15 PM