Perth event tonight: public forum on climate change

Tonight, a public forum on climate change is being hosted by the University of Western Australia. Four scientists from the UWA will present short talks on climate change (fingers crossed they obey the mandate to keep it short). Afterwards, it'll be thrown open to questions from the audience to a panel of local academics...and me (the initial idea was to broadcast the Skeptical Science iPhone app through the projector but the technology unfortunately failed us). The topics will be:

• Consensus in science: what does it mean?
  Professor Stephan Lewandowsky (School of Psychology, UWA)
• Time for accountability: junk science vs real science
  Professor Kevin Judd (School of Mathematics and Statistics, UWA)
• The scientific consensus: lessons from a warming planet
  Professor Malcolm McCulloch (School of Earth Sciences, UWA)
• The way forward: towards economic growth in a clean-energy future
  Dr Volker Oschmann (senior government official within the German Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety)
  

The forum will be at the Social Sciences Lecture Theatre from 6pm to 7.30pm so if you're in the Perth area, please come along. For everyone else, the event will be recorded and compete audio/video will be made available at www.uwa.edu.au/climatescience.

Posted by John Cook on Monday, 28 June, 2010

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