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News: Climate Adaptation Webcast

The Wilson Center is a policy thinktank in Washington, DC. They’ve got a webinar planned on climate adaptation, presumably from a policy perspective, scheduled for 10 June. I’m not familiar with the speakers or their organization, so I can’t comment on any more on the presentation itself. Their notice below.
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UPDATE: Kids and Climate Paranoia

UPDATE: You can see a short video of these kids from the week as described below. A marketing piece, but a very nice one.

Originally posted: 25 June 2008
I’m old enough that I was among the last generation to grow up with serious, warranted nightmares about massive nuclear exchanges between the U.S. and Soviet Union. I can remember being about six or seven and first learning about total nuclear annihilation; I had nightmares for a while, and I felt a consistent sense of fear and unease, certainly well into Bush 41’s presidency. I never had to deal with duck and cover drills like the generation before me, but I always felt aware of this potential doom, which felt completely out of my hands. The undercurrent of that time is hard to explain to people who haven’t lived through it.
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Tough Talking

I'm just back from a quick three-day trip to Austin, Texas, where I gave a talk with a Hewlett-Packard manager to some undergrads. I gave three of these talks in Pennsylvania about a month ago at three different universities. The basic point of these talks can be summarized as an answer to the question, What is anyone doing about climate change? I'm describing climate adaptation, and then talking a little about my work in China. Then the other person -- Pierre in PA, John in TX -- talk about HP's climate mitigation work to reduce the company's carbon footprint.
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