Gore, Carville, Bush guests at Panetta Institute Lecture Series - MontereyHerald.com :

The lecture series finale is tentatively set for May 17 and will feature former Vice President Gore in a discussion about the environment with moderator Frank Sesno, director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University.

After serving as vice president and following his unsuccessful bid for president, Gore was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for his advocacy in confronting global warming issues.

As usual, the lecture series will be held at the Monterey Conference Center, but the final lecture this year will be held at the Golden State Theater, according to Panetta.

Africa - Faith-based organizations urged to help popularize campaign on climate change

“We should be conscious of the fact that nature has its own rules and limits which when violated, could unleash unimaginable dangers on humanity,” he said.

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Audi's ad shows a satirical vision of a world patrolled by the 'green police'. What does this say about US attitudes?

U.S. Climate Change Portal Could Birth Entirely New Industries | Sustainability | Fast Company

Eventually, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke envisions that data gleaned from the site could lead the way to entirely new industries dedicated to protecting us from the effects of climate change. At the very least, the site will be able to help businesses and government agencies prepare for the inevitable sea level rise that we will face in the coming years.

Part one: Battle over climate data turned into war between scientists and sceptics | Fred Pearce | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Their correspondence reveals that there is some basis to the charge, made in October 2009 by climate contrarian Ross McKitrick, an environmental economist at the University of Guelph in Canada, that that "the IPCC review process is nothing at all like what the public has been told. Conflicts of interest are endemic, critical evidence is systematically ignored and there are no effective checks and balances against bias or distortion." There are more than a thousand leaked files of emails to and from scientists and CRU. The emails are clearly a small subset of all the emails that would have been sent and received by CRU scientists since the first one in 1996. Nobody is yet clear why this set made it into the public domain, but they are overwhelming between CRU scientists and foreign compatriots. They include technical discussions about tree ring chronologies and data analysis, scheming about how to repel Freedom of Information (FoI) requests, and bitching about their enemies among the sceptics – the group the scientists referred to as "the contrarians".
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Many have accused McIntyre, Keenan and others of being hired hands of corporations out to fight climate change legislation. The Guardian has found no evidence of that. Instead, they appear to be an unanticipated outpost of the rise of "grey power", retired numerate professionals with time on their hands, an obsessive streak in their heads and a cause to pursue. The story of the battles of McIntyre and his acolytes to access the raw data, and the protracted and generally failed attempts by the scientists to repel him, is the central story of the leaked emails from 2003 onwards.